User:AnotherPenguin/Stories
Overview of my SciOly Career
7th Grade (2018-19)
- At the JT/Kraemer scrimmage, my first ever comp, I placed 6th in circuit and 6th in experimental. I faded into obscurity in 7th grade and was relegated to the second team. My first invitational was Carmel Valley Invitational (yippee). We watched Arthur Benjamin (Ted Talk) try and overprice the books that he wrote. Mesa Robles was also relatively insignificant, but I got my first medal by helping my friend with his ELG. At Kraemer invitational, I finally earned a medal myself and gained another through ELG.
8th Grade (2019-20)
- In 8th grade, we started preparing earlier in the year, which ultimately meant more time to goof off. At the JT/Kraemer/OSCA scrimmage, I displayed my Game On potential (1st), along with placements in Code (2nd), Anatomy (3rd), Experimental (2nd). My heredity career ended with a pitiful 6th (this was supposed to be my best event). I managed to blow a lead of over two minutes on the timed question for Code and had to complete an entire EXPD write-up by myself in 50 minutes. We started the season in Texas, and I earned 3rd in Experimental and 2nd in Anatomy. We won first place overall, but we were unaware that we wouldn't win another invite until regionals. We capped off a successful invitational and trip to Texas by eating... Indian food in Texas. Most people would eat something more noteworthy in Texas, such as steak, but instead, we decided to have Indian food we already have back in California. I'm not salty. We then flew up to Sacramento to get steamrolled by Kennedy. In the last invitational, I had unsuccessfully created a strange flying bird with acceleration, so for Churchill, we decided to pull something completely different and make an accelerating fish. This plot saw little success, unfortunately, and I have no idea why.
- To start the year known forever as 2020, we flew up to Sacramento again for Mira Loma. Following another accelerating bird, we amazingly did not place in Game On. We also got tiered in Experimental Design for being off-topic. I'd dare say that the only thing that was off was their grading. However, because Mira Loma distributed all Game Ons, we may or may not have redesigned Kennedy's design. We participated in the Mesa Robles invitational down in Southern California. Ironically this was my best invitational yet, placing 1st, 2nd, and 2nd in Expd, Code, and Anatomy (We lost to our second team). At Jeffrey Trail Invitational we crept closer to Kennedy. By that, I mean we managed to lose to all three Kennedy teams and our second team in Game On. Thanks to Umaroth (or his teammate, idk), we also took the most fun code test of all time, featuring 2600 point aristocrats with z being the most common letter. Predictably, my partner could not read his own handwriting, and we couldn't solve the timed question. At Kennedy Invitational, I finally won Game On through the topic of Heredity (irony, huh?). The replica is here to commemorate the moment: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/373627622. They allowed three people for Codebusters, but we still placed second as a team of two. It is only due to my utmost integrity that we didn't try and rob a third medal for our 2nd place. At regionals, we finally won Codebusters now that Kennedy wasn't there to destroy us.
9th Grade (2020-21)
- In 9th grade, I joined the Northwood high team through the team tryouts. Because of the rules replay, most of my events stayed the same. By the end of the year, I did the same events as last year.
- I did relatively well at BearSO, receiving colors of medals I never knew existed. At Rickards, we managed to get 6th in Fermi with no prep and also 1st in Code. I also soloed in Astronomy, so my 16th place truly (definitely) displays my overall skill. At Mira Loma, we earned the worst placement (7th) in Code because the ES told us we solved the timed question right when we most definitely didn't. At GGSO, we placed 6th on a code test based on misspelled aristocrats, but that was our team's only placement. As my first Anatomy competition this year, GGSO treated me with a load of histology questions.
- At regionals, the team as a whole bounced back. I got a 1st place Game On medal with this beaver game on. The Codebusters test writers were nice and decided to make the longest test conceivable. We also caught a break and got first in Experimental Design, but my lack of knowledge about PTCH1 prevented me from succeeding in Anatomy.
- This year held my first state competition. In Codebusters, we persevered through a test full of BTS quotes and entire chunks of song lyrics. I'm not sure how we got second in Anatomy, but maybe the 20 questions of matching helped.
10th Grade (2021-22)
Nothing yet, but I'm sure things will happen ;). My events are almost identical lmao.