Before anyone asks, I have absolutely no clue what JETS stands for. But it's an engineering competition.
I think last week I promised a video the intentional epic fail we were planning for the egg-drop contest. Two problems: only two of my team members were there when we were called, and IT DIDN'T FAIL. I mean, really. A watermelon is thrown from a thirty-foot-tall bridge, and it doesn't break (although the egg inside did). Wtf. How is that possible? We got third out of eight in testing, though. Still, I was really looking forward to seeing a cottage-cheese-and-tomato-filled watermelong exploding.
Today's geeky because, dur, I'm at an ENGINEERING COMPETITION. I did learn a few things, however:
1.) 1 minute = 60 seconds. In one of the tests, they actually gave us that under the "things you might need to know" section. My friend Chase wrote "no way!" right next to it.
2.) You can cut a watermelon in half with scissors.
3.) Only about 65% of people will pay attention to you when you dash stealthily through the halls while blarin Mission Impossible on portable speakers.
4.) A group of eight people can eat a bag of pretzels, a bag of chips, a box of donuts, eight cokes, and a box of gushers, fruit rollups, and fruit by the foots in under three hours, while working diligiently on ridiculously hard math problems.
Welcome to JETS, where we learn wonderful, intelligent things.
Basia's tomorrow! Peace out.
-Olivia
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