User:Dipsy123
| Dipsy123 | |
|---|---|
| General Information | |
| Years in SO | 3 |
| State | New York |
| Division | C |
| Medals | |
| Total medals | 7
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| Competitor Info | |
| Competitions attended | 4
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Dipsy123 is a current ninth-grader at Jericho High School. She has been competing in Science Olympiad for 3 years (including this year) and started from 7th grade.
| JHS | Dipsy123 attends Jericho High School. |
| NY | Dipsy123 competes in Long Island, New York. |
Events
She has done multiple events throughout her years in SciOly, but her favorite events are, by far:
| ENTO | Entomology. |
| WIDI | Write It Do It. |
The events she has done are: Anatomy and Physiology, Botany, Disease Detectives, Dynamic Planet, Entomology, Ornithology, Reach for the Stars, and Write It Do It, with Botany, Ornithology, and Write It Do It being trial events.
Medal Highlights
| Gold | Dipsy123 has received a Gold medal in Microbe Mission at Western Long Island Regional. |
| 5th | Dipsy123 has received a 5th place medal in Microbe Mission at Western Long Island Regional. |
| 15th | Dipsy123 has received a 15th place medal in Entomology at Rickards Invitational. |
7th Grade - 2023/2024
My first year of Science Olympiad! My classmate, and soon Microbe Mission partner introduced me to this competition, and I'm forever grateful he did so. I went in this year into Team B not knowing much about the competition nor about what events were like. However, I went for events that I believed I would do well in, namely biology events. I was originally put into Anatomy and Physiology, Microbe Mission, and Crime Busters. After my Crime Busters partner quit due to personal reasons, I was left with an empty event slot. Preparing for events was hectic, as I was almost completely clueless on what to study or add to my cheatsheets.
One-ish week before the competition, another one of my friends joined the competition, as we were lacking people (there were around 30 people only this year). I decided to partner up with her for Disease Detectives. Our cheatsheet for that event was so rushed and barely legible, as we had copy-pasted blocks of text with no time to highlight.
I would say regionals this year was the most fun for my time in Division B. There were a few mishaps and funny little accidents. We ended up beating a team next to us that we thought were seriously outperforming us in Disease. Due to a bit of miscommunication, we ended up forgetting our cheatsheet in Anatomy and thought it was genuinely over for us, but placing was a pleasant surprise. My top 5 placement in Microbe solidified my standing as a pretty good SciOly competitor. I had a great time exploring the host school, and my unexpected placings in all my events boosted my confidence and ensured my desire to compete next year!
| Events | Regionals (42) |
|---|---|
| Anatomy and Physiology | 10th |
| Disease Detectives | 9th |
| Microbe Mission | 5th |
8th Grade - 2024/2025
This year, I made Team A (although Division B didn't really have tryouts)! I began the season with much more confidence than I had last year, as I knew what to do and how to study. I tried Entomology for the first time this year (and unbeknown to me, I ended up adoring it). I devoted much more of my time to Science Olympiad this year, as I truly fell in love with the competition.
Like last year, I joined an event very close to regionals: Reach for the Stars. We spent a lot of time two days before the competition cramming, and were pretty confident in our abilities. The day of regionals was fun, and I was confident in my events except for Entomology and Microbe Mission. For Entomology, we were sure we had done terribly, as our binder was ChatGPT and didn't have any general information, only ID. For Microbe, the team next to us was working well and finished incredibly quickly, which diminished our hopes. We also left five questions blank.
In the end, I ended up placing in 3/4 of my events. Reach for the Stars was my terrible event; we were outplaced by both Team B and Team C, and Team B didn't even have a cheatsheet! We ended up outplacing the team next to us in Microbe Mission!
I was sad to leave Division B, but excited for new beginnings in the high school.
| Events | Regionals (42) |
|---|---|
| Anatomy and Physiology | 8th |
| Entomology | 10th |
| Microbe Mission | 1st |
| Reach for the Stars | 30th
(we dont talk about this) |
9th Grade - 2025/2026
(11/19/25) So far, competing in Division C has been great. I spent so much time in the beginning of the season frantically studying for entrance exams, which was especially difficult because of sports season. However, I found out that I made Team A as a freshman right before practice, which left me feeling giddy the rest of the time afterward!
I've made many new friends and enjoyed my time with classmates so far. Rickards was surely an interesting experience for my first invitational ever, and I'm eager for results to come out (3 days)! Cornell also was super fun and I'm sad it's over, but I didn't do too terribly in my events for my first in-person invitational.
(11/23/25) RICKARDS CAME OUT!! My first ever invitational medal is a 15th place in Entomology. I honestly didn't expect to medal in this, as some questions we put in random answers hoping to get credit. Top 50 for Dyplan isn't terrible, and we got completely scammed on Disease... but it's ok! Getting 15th out of 353 teams is crazy as a freshman.
(12/3/25) Boyce in 2 days! I'm excited for it, but a little nervous. I really hope I place in something, as my team placement may be threatened if I don't place. I've been working on Ento, and during a practice test we got 2nd place which is pretty promising! For Disease, we seem to be getting a little better at it, matching points with TJHSST in a practice test. My Dyplan partner and I haven't met much, but we should be fine. My grades are dropping, so I should probably focus less on SciOly...
(12/6/25) Boyce was yesterday! It proceeded pretty normally, similar to Rickards where the team gathered in a room to complete their tests periodically. I have to do DyPlan today, as my partner had a test yesterday. Fortunately, Boyce was much easier than Rickards, and I'm hoping to place in Ento, as Disease was chaos again... at this rate, I may be dropped solely because of my terrible Disease standings. I just really hope we did well in Ento. Update: Dyplan was good! We were NOT expecting 200 questions but we managed to do 187 (I forgot to guess at the end.) Hopefully we can place in this too!! I've decided that if I place at Boyce, I'll dye my hair a funky color!
(12/17/25) I guess I don't have to dye my hair after all... no placings at Boyce. I feel like I'm severely underperforming as an A team member. I can't believe we didn't even place in Ento! How did I place at Rickards but not Boyce?! I still have the same events for MIT, but for regionals I only have Ento and Designer Genes, which I know NOTHING about. I need to lock in over winter break if I don't want to disappoint the officers even further. I'm not going to place at MIT at all, so my only hope is regionals...
(12/19/25) I've been accepted to write a Division B test for the UCR Highlander Invitational! This is my first time publishing a test for an invitational, so I'm super excited. I'll be working so much on the test, and I hope the middle schoolers like it!
(1/6/26) It's been a while since I updated this. The test writing is fine, but MIT is impending and I'm SO SCARED. I know it's going to be difficult for anyone in our team to place against those crazy teams, but I still don't want to flop and disappoint the officers again.
| Events | Rickards (353) | Cornell (66) | Boyceville (231) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Botany (Trial) | - | 13th | - |
| Disease Detectives | 100th (...) | 22nd | 42nd |
| Dynamic Planet | 49th | 12th | 34th |
| Entomology | 15th | 15th | 31st |
| Ornithology (Trial) | 26th | - | - |
| Write It Do It (Trial) | - | 14th | - |
Fun Stuff
'Achievements':
- ANTI-STOIC ACHIEVEMENT: Celebrate a win in an event excessively with your teammates.
- NICE ANTI-STOIC ACHIEVEMENT: Support anyone on your team who medalled, regardless of what they placed.
- BEAT THE CURVE ACHIEVEMENT: Know that you did horribly in an event, but still medal, probably because no one else knew what they were doing either. (8th grade ento binder was entirely chatgpted, 7th grade disease was... questionable)
- BLIND STAB ACHIEVEMENT: Completely make up a number or term to a free-response question and actually be right.
- BOOKWORM ACHIEVEMENT: Do only study events. (trials don't count right)
- CONSISTENCY ACHIEVEMENT: Get the same placing in the same event at least twice in a row. (ento :sob:)
- EVENT POLYGON ACHIEVEMENT: You are partnered with B, who is partnered with C, and so on…until N is partnered with you. (at least 4 people in total)
- FLYING SOLO ACHIEVEMENT: Take a test without a cheat sheet or binder. (7th grade anatomy was crazy)
- LATE BLOOMER ACHIEVEMENT: Show up late to an event (preferably not intentional) and still manage to get a medal. (microbe partner AGAIN)
- MULTIPLE GUESS ACHIEVEMENT: Completely guess an answer for a multiple-choice/matching question and be right.
- NEWTON-LEIBNIZ ACHIEVEMENT: The equation (or information) is not on your cheat sheet, so you derive it (or reason it out) during the test.
- OOPSIES ACHIEVEMENT: Forget your notes for a test event, but medal anyway, because you're just that good. (again, anatomy)
- POPULARITY ACHIEVEMENT: Go to more than one invitational in one year.
- STUDY EVENT PARASITISM ACHIEVEMENT: Use a binder/notes/cheat sheet made by a previous team member instead of your own. (basically dd+ento this year. we added extra stuff though trust)
- SUSPENSE ACHIEVEMENT: Have your placements announced in order of worst-to-best(not necessarily alphabetical, just how they announced it, e.g., delays).
- TEAM RELATIONS ACHIEVEMENT: Made friends on your team. (not that hard is it)
- THE LENGTHS I GO FOR SCIENCE OLYMPIAD ACHIEVEMENT: Work so hard on Science Olympiad that your GPA dips a couple of points...
- WEEPING WILLOW ACHIEVEMENT: Cry while in an event. Bonus points if you medal, extra bonus points if you win 1st place. (my partner in microbe)
- NO SHOULDER TO CRY ON ACHIEVEMENT: Weeping Willow Achievement but you don't have an event partner/they don't comfort you/they continue working on the test. (i did NOT notice bro was crying)
She will mourn Entomology leaving next year.
Current favorite/most interesting insect: Papilionidae (papilio machaon)
Current favorite/most interesting microbe: Heliobacter pylori