National Competion

This is for last week.
Fairfield Jr. High represented the Utah Science Olympiad team at nationals last week. This blog is going to describe and tell of my experience in Augusta, Georgia. Our team left around 5 o’clock and drove to the airport. It was a sunny Thursday morning. The weather was excellent for flying. We had to pay extra for the oversized trajectory device. We flew Delta and I switched around seats to sit with my friend. On the way there we watched Smallville on my friend’s laptop. It was a 3 hour flight to Atlanta. On our arrival, immediately you could feel the humidity overwhelm you. The air wet and heavy hooked our clothes to ourselves. We took a shuttle to the car rental place and rented a sweet mini SUV. It was white with a decked out interior. My grandma let us use her GPS to find our way around Georgia. It was good weather there, maybe a little too hot. It was another three hour drive to Augusta. It took awhile for us to find our hotel. Our hotel had three flours and 15 rooms on each floor. It was playhouse compared to the one last year. The hotel had complimentary breakfast with muffins and cereal each morning. The hotel last year had sausage, scrambled eggs, omelets, and a variety of other stuff each morning. About half of the group went out to Wal-Mart to get groceries for food the following day. All the kids stayed and played around. We caught frogs, played games on the computer, and went crazy. We were very tired by the end of the day though we still went to bed very late. The next day we went out to a discovery place and first watched a demonstration on liquid nitrogen. Here are some of the experiments that we watched: a racket ball turn hard and didn’t bounce; balloons deflate it a couple seconds without touching them; boiling of liquid nitrogen and many more. We went and experimented with all the various hands on things in this amazing building. There was a gyro, sound wave experiments, beach volleyball with nothing but a camera and a screen, centrifugal force, robots, bikes, swinging another person, magnets, mars rover, and hundred more. We spent hours there. At first I thought it was going to be dumb but it turned out to be kind of cool. After we went outside and had a picnic. The parents made subway sandwiches; they were really good; stacked high with onions, pepper, turkey, ham, cheese, olive, mayo, and mustard, all squished into a bun. That night was the night before the competition. We had to plan and prepare for all of our events the following day. We typed up study sheets and prepared binder for the completion. We tried to get a good night sleep but we still went to bed around midnight.
TO BE CONTINUED