Science fairs! Oh my!
It’s February 15 today. In exactly one month, on March 15, I will be presenting at my regional science and engineering fair. The top eight presenters in the fair will go on to the international fair, which is held at Atlanta Georgia this year.
I’m already getting a bit nervous. Over the next week, I will be creating and finalizing my slides for my board, so I can send them off to be printed. Then comes practice, practice, practice! Lots of reading, too, because I need to refresh my memory so I can answer questions, if asked any. Presentations are always so nerve-wracking!
This year, I believe that there are about 150 or so presenters at the regional fair. The presenters who place 9-20 can go onto the state fair, where they can try again for a chance to go to the international level. That was how it was last year.
I just would really love to do well in this competition, because the prize of being able to go to the international level just sounds so fabulous. As my teachers put it, “It’s a week of vacation, with only one really intense day–the presentation day. All the other days, we basically sight see and just have fun.” A week off in May for this competition just sounds grand. But I’ll see how I do on the regional level first.
To learn more, feel free to visit this website. I suggest watching the video. I think it’s a giant motivator!
As a side that I’m adding for my own remembering purposes, my school has been considered by a teacher from another school as, “The evil empire.”
3 Responses to “Science fairs! Oh my!”
February 16, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Good luck Yingna! I’m usually not too big on missing classes. but if it helps the resume, then it’s a sacrifice I’ll have to make 
Turn those nerves into confidence and kill that presentation 
February 21, 2008 at 7:49 am
Thanks for your comment~!
Sorry for the late reply… My internet hasn’t been working properly since the 4th and… as you might know, I live on the internet.
It’s pretty bad for me. 
And it’s surprising how little I have to do when I have no internet. XD I’m actually done with my homework early, and I indulge myself in the loser-act of watching Dragon Ball GT (I missed that series when they came out!).
So I haven’t been able to comment, but I decided just to comment from the school computer. 
Good luck with the science fair!
My sister won our school fair with the statistics and equational ways of solving the rubicks cube, utilizing the graphing calculator and complex equations…. and she won because none of the judges could understand what she was talking about.
And she didn’t win the county’s because no one understood what she was talking about. XD
It was pretty kick-butt but of course, me, being the anti-math person that I am, understood none of it.
My Advanced Composition teacher just got pissed off at me for blogging. lol.
February 16, 2008 at 5:35 pm
wow! nice new site!
I noticed that everything is held in atlanta..
Congrats, and “break a leg”!