As a 6th grader, I was totally confused. I thought that everyone had to learn all 23 events, and all 15 competed in each event. After 2 weeks, I quit. But I decided to give it one more shot. I went back and concentrated on Wright Stuff. I built about 4 model planes, each one better than the last. When I finally reached 1 minute 15 seconds, I was exhilarated. Packing away carelessly, I broke my plane
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It turns out I was chosen to go to states for our team, but not compete. Our team was going to get a medal at our states for Wright Stuff, until right before the real flight when something was the matter with the wing, and it fell right to the ground. It's time for both flights was 3 seconds. Dejected and defeat, our team dragged ourselves to the awards ceremony. We didn't think we were going to go to nationals. The Bridge had broken on about 4 buckets, and it seemed that everything had just gone wrong.
During the awards ceremony, we were medaling in a lot of events. As our team had about 10 pessimists, we thought about Wright Stuff and Bridge, and weren't concentrating on our medals, but our bombing events (out of top 10). When they started calling the teams, it turned out we had gotten 2nd! WE HAD MADE NATIONALS!!!
This year, I went to the interest meeting with a determined attitude. We were going to make it again. At Bayard Rustin Invitational, we got 1st. At Solon Inviatational, we got 8th and 10th. At regionals, we got 1st by a lot. We are on the right track. States is in 12 days. We will to make it.