User:Pepperonipi
Hello, I'm pepperonipi.
I'm a previous Science Olympiad competitor who previously competed on Teams 1 and 2 of Boca Raton Community High School. On those teams, I was fortunate enough to attend tournaments across the country with teammates and coaches that I knew as family. I competed in amazing events run by amazing supervisors, and sometimes won medals in those events. Looking back on my high school experience, competing in Science Olympiad was one of the best decisions I made. If you are considering joining a team, I would highly recommend it.
A large part of Science Olympiad is the gathering of information - after all, it's hard to compete in events based on information when you have no information. And this task can be... challenging. Despite all of the fabulous resources provided by Science Olympiad, Inc., there is still a gap. This is why I contribute to the Science Olympiad Student Center, Scioly.org. Here, as explained by the site's director, is where "the students have a voice."
The forums allow students, coaches, parents, and alumni to organize their voices and discuss community projects, ask questions about events, get help from fellow students, and learn about tournaments and events in the community. The wiki, with over sixteen thousand pages of information, is one of the largest repositories of knowledge in Science Olympiad, built by volunteers over the course of a decade. The chat allows people to communicate between each other quickly to get information about Science Olympiad, Scioly.org, or how everyone's days are going.
I hope that I can help to expand this beautiful source of knowledge that has been built by generations of volunteers before me. This is why I give some of my time - I believe in the project. Scioly.org was a helpful source of information for me when I began my journey in Science Olympiad, and I hope that the project can still serve as this helpful resource for students to come in future years.
I hope that you will help to contribute to this project, too. Truly, without volunteers, Scioly.org would be leaps behind where it is now, and with that, Science Olympiad would be, too. Please help to make this environment better for those to come, to inspire and assist the next generation of our world's scientists.
If you would like to contribute to Scioly.org, but do not know how, please send me a message on the forums. I will be happy to help you, and I am excited that you are interested in benefiting the project.
Thank you.
