The Event No One Wants

[yyy4401]

brobly can't juge a powder so in stuck in it and at last minute at reginals for desise detictives i got 2nd no notes or studing

[kjhsscioly]

why is powders unpopular.... Forensics is always quite popular, as is DD

[packjackisback]

Robocross as it is a big time and money drain.

[BennyTheJett]

Robocross as it is a big time and money drain.

ahhhhh.... a well documented issue across several years of Science Olympiad.


..... Disease Detectives was the event my high school would always struggle to find kids for.... too many sweaty pre-med kids.

[RiverWalker88]

Codebusters absolutely for our team. Nobody wants it. Nobody likes it. Chem lab too, probably.

[CPScienceDude]

Had to volunteer people to do remote sensing trajectory, and wifi lab this year

[Jehosaphat]

I don't understand why trajectory is so bad this year. I understand the complex events like wifi lab or even detector building, but trajectory is fairly straight forward yet I've seen some terrible efforts out of really good teams. I took third in a competition this weekend with two scoring launches over 40 cm which is awful, but somehow only three teams beat us.

[MorningCoffee]

In my district's div b team, IT'S SOUNDS OF MUSIC THIS YEAR
i can't fathom how, i would take it up in a few seconds if it was a div c event this year
what's not fun about building a musical instrument, i don't know what

[knightmoves]

Maybe "build a musical instrument" sounds too hard?

I think Covid has some blame here. Lots of B kids have missed out on traveling to physical events and seeing all the builds that similar-age kids have made, and have had fewer opportunities to do hands-on anything.

[LittleMissNyan]

I think Covid has some blame here. Lots of B kids have missed out on traveling to physical events and seeing all the builds that similar-age kids have made, and have had fewer opportunities to do hands-on anything.

Yeah I would agree, especially looking at our middle school team (90% 6th graders). Nothing for PPP, Electric Wright Stuff, and Storm the Castle. They only have a bare basics Mopple and a Mousetrap Vehicle from a kit, both of which I mighthavekindapressuredmybrothertodostuffwithhaha-
Builds are kinda intimidating when you don't know what you're doing, and covid taking away a bunch of invitational oppurtunities does kill a lot of the momentum for doing stuff like that

EDIT: Mopple got denied, no one avaliable that block apparently