User:Onshape

Favorite Event: Forestry!!!!

I compete in the Charlottesville Regional. (If you're on the CHS team then it's me, and I don't blame you for finding this page. I'm super addicted to this website when I have nothing else to do...)

Please don't edit this page unless you're me. Thanks!

Updates

2-22-23 update: We flunked all our chem events. I don't want to talk about Forensics or Chem Lab or even Enviro Chem, for that matter ... Well, to be fair, I didn't study for Forensics or Chem much.

Favorite Events

Forestry: I've always wanted to learn more about trees, and Forestry isn't super difficult but instead a nice challenge/easement into the concept of identification. The binders are super easy to make.

Bridge: Although the rules were subtle and confusing, I learned lots of engineering from this event and most importantly following rules!

Safekeeping

My page! Listed for safekeeping: [1]

My posts! Also for safekeeping: [2]

Event Placings

(the ones I actually care about are below):

2022-2023

	Bridge	Environmental Chemistry	Forestry	Green Generation	Write It Do It
Regional	12th	11th	2nd	5th	P *
* We were behind time for the whole event due to an issue with materials.

Summaries

2022-2023 (9th Grade, Division C)

What you see below is a result of poor preparation. Please don't judge ):

I have to say, Science Olympiad was really fun, no questions asked! This was my first year, and we made quite a few mistakes but it was all in all an amazing season. I enjoyed the study events because they gave me tests to actually do terribly on for a straight-A student, and something to dedicate learning to! (None other than Forestry, of course.)

If you've noticed below, I'm doing a lot of events this year. Have I mentioned that my team is only 9 people? That means we needed a bunch of fill-ins resulting in unprepared events /:

I really don't have anything else to mention here, so let's get started!

Events list is in order of my participation during regionals:

Environmental Chemistry

I definitely chose this event for the environmental rather than the chemistry part of it, and what this event did was make me realize that chemistry was fun, not that I was good at it. I started planning this event out around December but didn't think much about it, and I don't know a single part of it that I could say I contributed. Still, the dilutions I helped with were enjoyable. I can't speak for this event much, because I didn't think about it at all.

11th

Forensics (warm body)

I hate the sound of Forensics. I don't even know why I did it. I'm afraid of fire and can't make a pronounced vision through a microscope at all! Still, I ended up being put into this event because I had a friend who wanted a warm body for it. We began preparing for it the day before the event, and the only thing I could get done was the sample identification (under that wretched microscope). Considering we only got around 1/3 of it done, I can't expect too much.

17th

Bridge

This was an event I was really excited about. We began working on it with a CAD model in October, and my partner began to get really busy around that time and we postponed it until after Winter Break, which sounds like a big stretch. If you think about it, once you've neglected November, you're already into Winter Break and boom, it's January. Since it was a build event, it had to be prioritized and I dedicated a significant amount of time to the building. We were settled in the day before the event until we realized there was a construction violation on our bridge - laminated wood! That was a last minute thing, of course, but we ended up making a balsa-basswood hybrid that countered that prospect. Unfortunately, we were still put into Tier 2 because of having a too narrow bridge. My coach said that the balsa event rules are extremely difficult to comprehend and they're dense, but that's the only part that matters at this point. Our efficiency was terrible, around 150, but I feel that a tier 1 bridge could've gotten us up 5 places ):

12th

Write It Do It

Let's not talk about this event. Let's just say that I actually practiced.

30th

Chemistry Lab (warm body)

Another warm body. Self explanatory.

22nd

Green Generation

That 5th place you see below is pure luck. Green Generation is easy, and you can't prove me otherwise. Personal opinion.

5th

Forestry

Of course I have to talk vastly about my favorite event! That isn't just in effect because of my medal, but I've been interested in Forestry for a long time. When the pandemic began, I could only feel the need to succumb to nature, which turned into trees, which are everywhere. Forget bugs! Forget reptiles! Forget birds! (Well, birds are cool, but that's beyond the point. Trees are cooler.) This is the one event that I'm proud of. After this year, I don't care about anything but Forestry. When Forestry's gone in 2025 ... well, let's not talk about that.

We really didn't study until January, and wrote up our whole binder (around 150,000 words) one night before the event! Then we answered the trees we knew, and it was all guessing after that. I don't have much rant as I'd expected, because Forestry really ended up perfectly!

2nd