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When you spend almost your entire summer editing the wiki on this site

When you check your school's Science Olympiad page every few minutes to see if the applications are up yet.

When you go to your room and cry for three hours straight when you find out that your head coach is moving and you might not have a scioly team next year.

When someone says Mission Impossible and you immediately correct them and say Mission Possible, even when they're talking about the movie.

When you notice things enough to post stuff like this

Entomology wrote:when the bottle rockets your group made in science make you want to scream and fix everything.

Too true... oh, too true...

texas wrote:When you go to your room and cry for three hours straight when you find out that your head coach is moving and you might not have a scioly team next year.

Does your team have any organizational structure besides your coach?

Unome wrote:

texas wrote:When you go to your room and cry for three hours straight when you find out that your head coach is moving and you might not have a scioly team next year.

Does your team have any organizational structure besides your coach?

We do have some structure, but the school won't let us have a student-run team. Plus, most of the students aren't that interested in science olympiad, because their parents forced them to try out.

Zioly wrote:

Entomology wrote:when the bottle rockets your group made in science make you want to scream and fix everything.

Too true... oh, too true...

When you don't even do bottle rockets, but know enough to want to scream and fix everything in class.

texas wrote:

Unome wrote:

texas wrote:When you go to your room and cry for three hours straight when you find out that your head coach is moving and you might not have a scioly team next year.

Does your team have any organizational structure besides your coach?

We do have some structure, but the school won't let us have a student-run team. Plus, most of the students aren't that interested in science olympiad, because their parents forced them to try out.

What specifically do you mean by our school won't let you? If it's that there has to be a staff member (or in less restrictive cases an adult), then if you tell it well you can probably get a teacher to do some of the administrative stuff that the school requires (for example, our school district requires that students can't handle the money). It doesn't even have to be a science teacher; our school's academic bowl team (one of the best in the nation) is coached by a Spanish teacher.

Unome wrote:

texas wrote:

Unome wrote: Does your team have any organizational structure besides your coach?

We do have some structure, but the school won't let us have a student-run team. Plus, most of the students aren't that interested in science olympiad, because their parents forced them to try out.

What specifically do you mean by our school won't let you? If it's that there has to be a staff member (or in less restrictive cases an adult), then if you tell it well you can probably get a teacher to do some of the administrative stuff that the school requires (for example, our school district requires that students can't handle the money). It doesn't even have to be a science teacher; our school's academic bowl team (one of the best in the nation) is coached by a Spanish teacher.

There aren't a lot of staff members or teachers willing to be our head coach. Our assistant coaches from last year might step up, but both of them have little kids (one of them is separated and has a kid going to kindergarten, and the other barely shows up to tournaments).