Today was an awesome event, since we got to take a day off from school to attend the Lehigh Conference Science Olympiad, where schools compete in knowledge, quick know how, engineering, and other fun projects.
Our event was the scrambler, where we had to design a car that would travel down a track and not hit a wall. The car had an egg protruding from the front, so if it hits the wall... well. Ours went slightly forward, it did a flip in midair as it was pulled up and the egg cracked. As the weight pulled the car up, the yoke came out of the cracks in the egg... Awesome! We didn't win, but we wern't last either. 1 or 2 groups could not get their vehicles to move. Our problem? the car was too light.
There was also the "boomilever" (pronounced "boom-ihh-leever"), which was a tower that is designed to hold 32 kilograms (71 lbs) from a hanging bucket of sand. Two boomilevers held that weight constantly, Nazareth (and I believe) Whitehall. The Nazareth Boomilever was so well built that the table fixture made by the judges was coming APART and the boomilever didn't even flinch the entire time. We earned a silver medal, because Whitehall was 1 gram lighter than our bridge (The winner is determined by a payload to weight ratio, aka the most "weight efficient" bridge). Good job both teams!!! The boomilever for the Lehigh Conference was an INTENSE fight.
Other events included knowledge and logic tests, as well as a competition to "do stuff on the fly". Nazareth took home 4 Gold Medals, 2 Silver Medals, and a bronze. GREAT job team!! We really represented our school with pride and honor, because we BLEED blue and white.
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I used to do science olympiad when I was in middle and high school. My team was really strong on the knoweldge events although we were still good at the buil.ding stuff. I still have all of my ribbons on my mom's refridgerator
Awesome stuff!
We took golds for most of our knowledge events, and we took bronze and silvers for our building competitions. A lot of the competition was very heated and it was great to see what everyone came up with.
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