Memoir Draft
If there's one way to spend an evening, it's doing math problems the whole night. Of course, I could have been at an award ceremony in the capital, but since I didn’t win anything, there wasn’t a need for me to go, so instead, I spent my night catching up on some math problems. It wasn’t until my mother got a phone call from the 6th grade science teacher that I realized we probably should have gone to the awards ceremony.
Earlier that day, contestants at the state science fair were allowed to skip school and go to the Convention Center for judging, so I did, along with my science partner. My team, which consisted of me, the above partner, and another acquaintance, started when I found out that they shared my distaste for the most popular choice of science project at the time (water filters), and needed a third member.…