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Re: The Event No One Wants

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reyman wrote:For our team its trajectory, remote sensing, and environmental chemistry. But I ended up getting EnviroChem at the last minute and placed 1st so I guess that turned out well :)
How can you not like Trajectory :o :(

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Re: The Event No One Wants

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Trajectory was a popular event at our school. Think about it. You get to build a catapult and launch stuff. That's the event in a nutshell.
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Re: The Event No One Wants

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starpug wrote:
reyman wrote:For our team its trajectory, remote sensing, and environmental chemistry. But I ended up getting EnviroChem at the last minute and placed 1st so I guess that turned out well :)
How can you not like Trajectory :o :(

Now you've hurt my feelings :cry:
Well, since this is our school's first truly "competitive" SciOly year, most people saw it as being a tad confusing and difficult to make.
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Re: The Event No One Wants

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sisomg11 wrote:I've noticed that on our team, there's a few events each year that it's hard to find anyone who actually wants to do. What are those events for your team?

On ours, Rocks and Minerals was one (why I ended up in it), and now Disease Detectives, Anatomy, and Remote Sensing are the events no one wants.


EDIT: Someone please move to General Chat outside of Posting Games. Not sure why it ended up in here.
That's funny, in our school, Rocks and Minerals was the most popular event, probably because the jr. high coach was an expert on them and had some really nice samples.

For us, it was definitely It's About Time, and most building events.
The events everyone wanted were Ecology and Chem lab.
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Re: The Event No One Wants

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Basically most of the study events...ya. Seriously, our juniors, sophomores, and seniors are just sooo lazy. I just wanna rant on and on....sigh.

I personally love events which people dont want, because its easier to medal in them, and i actually like study events (DP, DD, Fossil, and of course, Fossils).
2011 Season Events~

Fossils (Regionals ~1st) (State ~6th)
Towers (Regionals ~1st) (State ~3rd)
Helicopter (Regionals -3rd gahhh) (State ~5th)
Wind Power (Regionals ~1st) (State ~3rd TIERED!)

Hooray for getting everything i wanted?
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Re: The Event No One Wants

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meterology and ecology were both ones that no one wanted. i would have taken meterology but i had a conflict.

btw, the shift key doesn't work on this computer, which is why no capitolization. i feel like such a grammar fail.
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Re: The Event No One Wants

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EileenofSD wrote:meterology and ecology were both ones that no one wanted. i would have taken meterology but i had a conflict.

btw, the shift key doesn't work on this computer, which is why no capitolization. i feel like such a grammar fail.
Caps lock. On for caps, then off. And there are 2 shift keys.
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Or, type it into Word, have auto-correct fix it, and then copy and paste.
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Re: The Event No One Wants

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For us, it seems to be Anatomy, Meteorology, Battery Buggy, Physical Science Lab, Fossils, Ecology, Pentathlon, and Wright Stuff. We got good places at competition in several of those events, but I have a suspicion that was the result of night-before cram sessions instead of actual studying. Basically, the people on these events from last year are mostly gone, and none of the "veterans" like me seem to want those events (mostly we simply refuse to study or build anything), so the new people are stuck with them. It's not a happy system, but somehow it works.
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Re: The Event No One Wants

Post by EastStroudsburg13 »

For us it was Mission Possible, Ornithology, Fossils, Disease Detective (even though I could have done it, but had a conflict), and Mousetrap Vehicle. Also Remote Sensing, so I did it alone and got 2nd at regionals. :D
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