We had spent weeks… no… months working on our wheeled vehicle for science olympiad. So much of our time and sleep was sacrificed trying to make everything perfect. Throughout it all, we never wanted to admit that the ice we were walking on was thin. We never wanted to give up, and we never did, but in the end we still failed. It was all worth it though. Watching our car roll backwards toward the start taught us both that nothing ever goes perfectly. Being able to walk out of the event area with smiles plastered on our faces was our biggest accomplishment. The car might not have worked, but we knew that most of the other teams had adults build their cars for them. Knowing that we worked so hard for so long was our reassurance. Things might
