Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The Best Star Seeker in the County

We had our County Wide Science Olympiad Tournament this past Saturday. While we went in with lower expectations {we lost alot of kids last year when the 5th graders went on to middle school and we gained alot of first year participating 3rd graders}, I was pleasantly surprised by the outcome of one particular event.
Our Starry Night team is comprised of Jared and Samantha. This is Samantha's last year as she is a 5th grader but prior to this year, she was Arianna's teammate the 2 previous years. It just seemed natural for Jared to take over.
The top 8 teams (out of the 50 that participated) received a medal. Since Dan is the County Supervisor for Starry Night, he was charged with making up and facilitating the test. Therefore, he also had to grade it....and therefore, he also knew the results! That last part was something he tried to keep from me as he wanted me to be surprised at the awards ceremony. Fortunately our team's head coach was happy to share with me that we placed.........

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1st!!!!!!!!!!!

4 comments:

vipman said...

CHEERS......CHEERS.....and a STANDING OVATION....HIP HIP HOORAY

Rale said...

Jared you rock!!!! You are awesomely smart! Congratulations to you and Samantha! (and you too Coach/County Supervisor! ;-)

Anonymous said...

CONGRATS Jared!!! Hey, you're missing the same two top teeth as Titongi is! Stargazing is fun, isn't it? Love, the Taomias

Ari said...

and that's my Doritos bag in the corner by Jared's arm! I'm famous too!!! :D