User:Onshape
No trash talking on here, please. Tell me whatever points of improvement you want in a civil manner but make sure to abide by the scioly.org rules. I attend CHS and compete in the Mary Washington Regional.
| onshape | |
|---|---|
| General Information | |
| Years in SO | 2 |
| Current Team | Charlottesville High School |
| Grade | 10th |
| State | VA |
| Division | C |
| Scioly.org Information | |
| Forum profile | onshape |
| Medals | |
| Total medals | 3
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| Competitor Info | |
| Competitions attended | 2
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| VA | onshape competes in central Virginia. |
Medals
2022-2023
| Silver | onshape has received a Silver medal in Forestry at '23 Charlottesville Regional. |
| 5th | onshape has received a 5th place medal in Green Generation at '23 Charlottesville Regional. |
2023-2024
| 5th | onshape has received a 5th place medal in Forestry at '24 Lake Braddock Regional. |
Placings
2022-2023
| Event | Regionals |
|---|---|
| Forestry | 2nd |
| Green Gen | 5th |
| Enviro Chem | 11th ^ |
| Bridge | 12th |
| Forensics | 17th |
| Chem Lab | 22nd |
| WIDI | 30th ^^ |
| Team | 13th |
^ warm body
^^ materials problem for virtual comp, participation pts only
2023-2024
| Event | SEC | Regionals |
|---|---|---|
| Forestry | 10th | 5th |
| Geologic Mapping | 8th | |
| Robot Tour | 10th ^ | |
| Ecology | 14th | |
| Tower | 22nd | |
| Scrambler | 33nd ^^ | |
| Fermi | 13th | |
| Rules Manual | 17th | |
| Team | 30th | 12th |
^ warm body
^^ "no show" don't ask
Summaries
2022-2023 (9th Grade, Division C)
Regionals
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.)
Not a very good season - we don't have a big team and all of us forgot about scioly for the whole season. Hopefully that will change next year.
Enviro Chem (11th) - 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.
Forensics (17th) - 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 couldn't expect too much.
Bridge (12th) - 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 then 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
WIDI (30th/P)
Chem Lab (22nd) - Another warm body. None of us really studied or knew anything about chem at all. Self explanatory. also I suspect this was an "easy event" for many teams because of ap chemistry because one group got 15th in astronomy from guessing all "b" lol. Hopefully this will be the case next year.
Green Gen (5th) - Green Generation's just easy - of course I know about food webs, biogeochemical cycles, energy transfer, and biomes from biology class, and about environmental legislation from ap human geography. I have to say that no matter how easy it seems, I think the AP Envi Sci videos would've been super helpful and might've brought this placement up to a gold medal possibly??? Well we both thought this was easy, so we didn't study at all and that's fair. I'll have to work on Ecology more next year as it may be even easier than forestry.
Forestry (2nd) - 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, ornithology is cool, but that's beyond the point. Trees are cooler.) This is the one event that I'm proud of.
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 want to improve on this event next year and be able to actually identify all the trees (:
2023-2024 (10th Grade, Division C)
SEC
Fermi Questions (13th) - This was a fun one that I've never tried before. I'm surprised I even got 13th, considering I know nothing about this event except how to respond to questions ... maybe I should try this one out next year!
Rules Manual (17th) - A super enjoyable event - and evidently the most popular of SEC too.
Forestry (10th) - Not bad. I didn't try too hard on it and the test was quite difficult compared to ones I've seen ... Now I have more on my list to focus on!
Lake Braddock Regional
Misc
Credits: EwwPhysics because I was too lazy to make my results chart without copy/pasting the code, and even for this text.
My 2023 coach for me knowing scioly even exists.
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