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February 03, 2005
Me? A science fair judge?!
That's right, I volunteered as a high school science fair judge. I thought, this is my chance--my chance to get a free meal! I kid. I thought, this is my chance to give something back to the community! Ha, I kid again...it was for the food.
I was assigned the chemistry category (I knew my one year of pre-med would take me places) and had to judge 7 projects. I would go up to each of my assigned projects and talk to the students. I honestly felt like I blended in with all the students--I'm sure many of them were confused. But let's not talk about me, let's talk about all the CRAPPY projects I judged... hahahaha... I'm mean--I know, but it was clear that many of these kids didn't put much time into their projects. Seriously, how many times can "Which Detergent is Best at Removing Stains?" be done? These three girls told me that one of them, like, got a big stain, like, on one of her, like, fav shirts. So they tested Tide, Oxy, and clorox Bleach on strips of white cloth. I'm sorry, are we talking about BLEACH?--that stuff can burn holes in my skin. I just thought the results would be a bit OBVIOUS. I'm all about presentation, but many of these kids were not. One project,"The Diffrence Between Table and Commercial Salt," had the title written real big on the top of their board. You could tell they weren't too fazed when they realized they had spelled 'difference' wrong:
In my defense, there were a few really impressive projects. I gave out two honorable mentions and a first place. The first place was given to a group of girls whose project's details went over my head. I just smiled and said, "I like your shirt. Did you get that at ae?!" And there was this adorable little black boy who was so enthusiastic about his evaporation project--very polite and responded with "yes ma'ams." (: I had to give him an award.
Now for pictures...
Snowboarding trip was tons of fun. I fell a lot. In fact, I fell so much that I started getting a headache. My body was CRYING the day after the trip...CRYING. Here are some photos:
Last weekend I went bowling with my small group. I made a bet with my friend James--whoever gets the highest score, dresses the loser for church on Sunday. James is a huge Eagles fan. I don't care much for football, but I intended to dress him in Patriots gear if he lost. The slideshow below shows what happens when you put my bowling skillZ to the test.
Posted by Jennafi at February 3, 2005 10:26 AM
Comments
i'm sure dan loves your commentary. :P
Posted by: aaron at February 3, 2005 12:46 PM
white people intimidate me.
Posted by: social chair dan at February 3, 2005 01:24 PM
the science fair judge sounds like fun! :)
I'm stoked about going boarding myself this spring break :)
Posted by: at February 3, 2005 03:13 PM
haha. that one guy looks like takford. and your bottom right picture takes me to a broken link. hey, nice patriots outfit...how much to buy one?
Posted by: ed at February 3, 2005 03:55 PM
Haha, wow, you were emotionally bribed by the evaporation kid!
Posted by: at February 3, 2005 04:27 PM
We never had a science fair at my high school! They stopped doing it after elementary school...
Posted by: jessica at February 4, 2005 01:51 AM
When I did my science fair project on the immune system, my judge was an immunologist. How the heck did you get to be judge? Don't they have standards for these kind of things? I'm going to encourage Tyler to do his science fair project on "The diffrence between qualifed and unqualified judges" with a special section on needing to look at least thirteen years old.
Posted by: Bum at February 4, 2005 06:07 AM
come visit me and we'll board together!
Posted by: neartahoe =P at February 4, 2005 10:44 AM
I must say I am very impressed with the hat you made for the Patriot's "fan." Very creative, Jennifer, very creative.
Posted by: Kathy at February 6, 2005 09:07 PM
I DID THE DETERGENT PROJECT IN 6TH GRADE!!!!!! WHAT'S WRONG W/ THAT?
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