Texas 2010

[officialswiftie]

Oh, and congrats Beckendorff...y'all will be good for quite a while (:
Hopefully WCJH next year? KISD represents ((:

Congrats LASA & Cy-Woods as well.

[brobo]

Oh, and congrats Beckendorff...y'all will be good for quite a while (:
Hopefully WCJH next year? KISD represents ((:

Congrats LASA & Cy-Woods as well.

Yes, KISD FTW!

Next year it will be WCJH, Beckandorff, and 7L all the way.
Yesterday, I got my life back.
My day felt so empty.
...
*goes to study Sever Storms so he doesn't have to think about empty days without scioly*

[duckiegirl2]

Lol yeah, now i have a life but im still on scioly. lol.

[get wrecked]

Whoops Pflgerville got 7th... Cy-lakes got 8th my bad

[officialswiftie]

Yeahh everyone did relatively well. And for our first year, it was pretty good.
Next year....

KISD should sweep

[Angstrom]

The UT Austin regional gives back the tests to their teams. Heck, they even mailed us our Physics Lab test back to us because it wasn't originally included in the massive folder of tests they gave us after awards. That was a good study resource.

On a different note, did anyone think that the written part of Physics Lab at states was hard? It had Calc III and partial derivatives on it . We left like half the test blank or BSed the answers for whatever we did answer but still ended up placing 2nd

Last year, at B division Physical Science Lab, I was very impressed with their test. It had all sorts of questions I didn't know, about things like semiconductors, Bedouins in a desert (my partner answered "he's in Antarctica" for that question), and the Stefan-Boltzmann constant. I learned so much from taking it, and I was very impressed with TAMU, and also their cleverness ("How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if each board took 500 J to chuck..."). We ended up placing 4th, because we had a lousy fan, but I think we did better on the test.

This year, I took the exact same test, question-for-question, but with a few extra. Even having taken it before, I didn't know some of the answers, and we only finished 5 minutes early. And although we did place 1st, that was because we had a great fan; the test didn't matter all that much.

Mind you, the questions weren't insanely hard (well, the question that boiled down to "tell us that the integral of 1/x is ln(x)" shouldn't have been on there); even if I hadn't seen them before, I could do almost all of them. They were the right level, and good questions. But there were a little too many, and it's not right that I got an unfair advantage for having done that event at Kealing last year.

The really annoying part is that not only did they reuse last year's B division test for C division -- they ALSO reused last year's B division test for B division, which my partner from last year took. But with one change: instead of a Bedouin in a desert, it was a Bedouin in a hot desert.

[robotman]

Kealing has 4 9th graders who have been around since they were in 6th grade, plus a few 8th graders who have been there since last year. Since last year, they lost 5 9th graders (now either in C or not doing SciOly) to Lasa and one 8th grader (who is, I believe, one of the people who did eco last year for them) to St. Andrews. But the majority are in their first or second year of SciO. I'm not quite sure of the 6th/7th/8th grader breakdown.

Yea I know this post is a bit after the fact But

Riverwood has one ninth grader Me. We have 2 8th graders. The rest of our team was 7 seventh graders only four of which had competed last year. and 3 brand new sixth graders all of which medaled.
It just goes to show a team of mostly 6 and 7th graders is just as good as most team composed of mostly 8th and 9th

If losing ninth graders brings a team down the ninth graders must not have been trying to help the team out by teaching other students what needs to be done.

Also I would like to state the fact that Riverwood only has 14 people who competed at state including 2 alternates

/annoyed rant

[andrew418]

Yea I know this post is a bit after the fact But

Riverwood has one ninth grader Me. We have 2 8th graders. The rest of our team was 7 seventh graders only four of which had competed last year. and 3 brand new sixth graders all of which medaled.
It just goes to show a team of mostly 6 and 7th graders is just as good as most team composed of mostly 8th and 9th

If losing ninth graders brings a team down the ninth graders must not have been trying to help the team out by teaching other students what needs to be done.

Also I would like to state the fact that Riverwood only has 14 people who competed at state including 2 alternates

/annoyed rant

I don't think anyone is trying to take away from your accomplishment in any way. People asked what happened to Kealing, who has historically been a strong competitor in B division, and Quark tried to explain why their team didn't perform to their usual standard. There's no need to be upset or annoyed, and there's no need to insult Kealing's past ninth graders. No one is trying to lessen your success. And with your young team, you will be able to come back next year and maybe do even better.

[duckiegirl2]

It just goes to show a team of mostly 6 and 7th graders is just as good as most team composed of mostly 8th and 9th

yes i agree with andrew, and our team last year was mostly 7th graders(me/ us) and we were the main body of the team even if we didn't get in top three last year.

[Quark]

To clarify, I meant for it to be interpreted as Andrew said. I was not attempting to say that a team composed of younger members cannot do well, nor was I trying in anyway to lessen your accomplishment. I certainly believe that 6th graders can be essential to a team (heck, back when I was in B division, I competed and won medals as a 6th grader). Plus, a young team will even have a few years to work together and improve. You guys did well this year, and I bet you can do well next year also. Both your team and Kealing (and everyone else) has the potential to do well next year. I was simply trying to answer texan92, who was wondering why Kealing did worse than they have in years past. I wasn't trying to explain away their problems or suggest that the got gypped (that spelling looks weird, but my dictionary claims its correct), but merely to give the best answer to the question from the preceding post that I could given what I was aware of at the time from interactions with the Kealing kids.

Many of the Kealing team's past 9th graders are people I know and consider friends. I can guarantee you that they were trying to help the team in anyway they could, and that none of the Kealing kids would blame it on past 9th graders, but the current team members would instead take responsibility for it themselves. They were the ones competing. That said, as you called it an annoyed rant, I'll trust you were just in rant mode and not really thinking about it.