<p>Just wondering how many CC people are in S.O. If you are, post here and say if you went to states or nationals and maybe what events you did too. Also PM me your AIM screenname if you wanna talk about S.O. (yeah, I'm bored and anxious for the new season)</p>
<p>This was my first year doing SO. I did Forestry, Remote Sensing, and Disease Detectives. We went to state, got 2nd, and to nationals, where we placed... 36 I think. </p>
<p>What events did you do? Did you go to state, nationals?</p>
<p>Yeah I went to state and nationals, we got top 10 at nationals and 2nd at state. I only did fermi and compute this... both which required no studying at all, but hey, I'll take it :) it was my first year too.</p>
<p>how exactly does SO work? is it like JETS? that's what i do at my school. we don't have SO</p>
<p>I've never heard of JETS. But SO is I think 23 events. And you have a team of 15 people (some schools have 2 or 3 teams... sometimes stacked). Each person gets events with one partner (usually about 2-6 events). There are a few "building events" that are made before hand and then just executed there. Like trebuchets, support towers, airplanes, robots, etc. And the rest and majority of the events are "brain" events (require studying). Examples are: genetics, health science, physics lab, chemistry lab, astronomy, etc etc. Then the team with the lowest score wins. Usually a team goes to some invitationals and then regionals. If they do well enough there then states. Then if they do well enough there (very very hard to do) nationals.</p>
<p>In jr high our Scioly team was excellent and we always dominated regionals and went to states.
Now at the sr high, no one cares, I think our team was like 6 people this year, we didn't even go to all the events. People are too busying studying for classes to want to do a science competition.
But I have a thing for building bottle rockets, every year since 7th grade my bottle rockets have placed. This year, jr year, they were awesome as ever, I was sure they would win first place as usual. Then the event, the only one I actually did anything for, was CANCELLED because of snow. What a cruel, cruel world : )</p>
<p>we never got to state, but we were close. I think if we placed ahead of one more team we would have gone. I did Cell Bio, Designer genes and Health science. The national scioly people released the prospective events for next year. They took fundamental events which made me mad. No more cell bio... and what did they put in its place... Ecology and entomology. Sigh...</p>
<p>junior year was my first year of SO. our school won regionals and went state, but lost there.</p>
<p>Yeah, beware0fnerd, they took out experimental design, lol which is basically the "essence of science" as my coach said. So that's kinda ridiculous. But then again, I hear the some of the national people don't really care that much and it's all political. I'm not interested in any of the added events.</p>
<p>"Political"? Wow. I didn't know politics demanded that Chem ID (the switch from Qual. Analysis to ID angered my friend and coach, already...) be changed to... Food Chemistry... Sigh... At least they took Mission Possible. I was always against that event</p>
<p>I've done SO for four years, and we've made it to States every year. What's awesome is my school has only been participating for 5 years, so yeah, in 2 years we went from placing 22nd out of 23 at regionals to winning regionals. In my region, we have the dumbest set up, the 23 events, but a week in advance you have to chose 5 events that won't count, and of course we always choose the wrong events, cuz 1 week is a huge amount of time. They do it to try and encourage the teams that can't do all the events that they still have a chance, but it's really just a dumb rule.</p>
<p>Anyway, events I've done over the past 4 years: Cow-A-Bungee (no longer exists), Compute This, Chem Lab, Experimental Design, Practical Data Gathering, Rocks and Minerals (replaced by fossils), Mission Possible, Forensics, Physics Lab, Cell Bio, Designer Genes.</p>
<p>I'm in NY, so at states, we have to compete against Fayetteville-Manlius and Ward Melville, and if my memory serves me, FM won nationals in 04 and WM was in the top 10. So yeah, states is <em>really</em> hard.</p>