Science Bowl

1/25/2013

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      Today at lunch, I went to Mrs.Poole's room for Science Bowl. We are also going to have practice on Sunday from 11:00-2:00. We were originally going to have practice from 1:30-4:30, but Mrs.Poole has to go perform at 2 different flute concerts which start at 3:00. I really want to go to Washington D.C. for the finals. Imagine being the best team in Fresno County. Edison Computech has won the Fresno County competition 5 years in a row and students on the team received an all-expense paid trip. That would be really awesome.

     To go to the national competition, we will first have to win our regional competition which will take place on February 16,2013. From today, January 25th, 2013; we have 22 days to practice and learn all we can. We still need to do the energy questions. We haven't done any energy questions, and we re going to practice on Sunday. We are also going to practice on Saturday.
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Chess Club

1/18/2013

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       Today I went to Chess Club 15 minutes late. I had to talk to Mr.Aberle because I was confused about when to use verbs. As I write this, a student walked into the classroom holding a paper Mr.Aberle was going to give me. Anyways, we are holding a chess tournament here at Computech, and I signed up. My opponent hasn't shown up for about 2 weeks which is getting annoying since we will not get to play for another week, and if he doesn't want to come; I will not have another opponent until a week after that.

       Since my opponent didn't show up, I first one of my friends. Since he was checked and he was almost about to be check-mated, so he grabbed his queen and started to hit the pieces with his queen until the board was empty except for his king and one of his pawns. I asked him what he just did, and he answered by saying that we were playing nuclear chess. He said that nuclear chess is when you can empty the board of everything except for a king and a pawn, everything else is sacrificed.
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