Elwin Portillo
Columbia High School
Mrs. Crill
Reflective Essay Final Paper
Science Olympiad an event that is done in the STEM program. Being in STEM has been a new experience, especially with Science Olympiad. By taking this class I have been able to understand things differently and I also learned new skills. Each skill that I have learned has been a great influence and I will continue to hold on to them. With this project there was a lot of things that I felt satisfied with but there were many habits that I needed to improve on. With this reflection I hope to achieve a better understanding of myself and on the ways I acted, so I can improve. Taking stem gave me a new experience and the events I did and how I did them, …show more content…
With all these choices and it being my first year, I really didn’t know what to do, so I chose bridge building for my build. While for my academic event I chose two, fossils and forensics. I didn’t have previous experience with Science Olympiad due to not being in STEM last year. Either way, I chose to do bridge building because I am in engineering. At the same time that Science Olympiad was going on I was learning about trusses and weight distribution in my engineering class which was very helpful. It was very convenient because I would be able to have somewhere to go in order to build a good bridge. Even though I had these resources I didn’t take advantage of it. On the other hand, when it came to my academics I was not sure what to do, but since the odds were in my favor because I didn’t do stem last year, I ended up with a friend as my partner. So I chose to follow my friends and teacher’s opinion by studying fingerprints for my forensics. This was way more appealing and interesting than my bridge building and my fossils choice. I continued working on my forensics while I left my bridge building to my partner who didn’t do much, and my fossils was also untouched as I had the same partner as my
Columbia High School
Mrs. Crill
Reflective Essay Final Paper
Science Olympiad an event that is done in the STEM program. Being in STEM has been a new experience, especially with Science Olympiad. By taking this class I have been able to understand things differently and I also learned new skills. Each skill that I have learned has been a great influence and I will continue to hold on to them. With this project there was a lot of things that I felt satisfied with but there were many habits that I needed to improve on. With this reflection I hope to achieve a better understanding of myself and on the ways I acted, so I can improve. Taking stem gave me a new experience and the events I did and how I did them, …show more content…
With all these choices and it being my first year, I really didn’t know what to do, so I chose bridge building for my build. While for my academic event I chose two, fossils and forensics. I didn’t have previous experience with Science Olympiad due to not being in STEM last year. Either way, I chose to do bridge building because I am in engineering. At the same time that Science Olympiad was going on I was learning about trusses and weight distribution in my engineering class which was very helpful. It was very convenient because I would be able to have somewhere to go in order to build a good bridge. Even though I had these resources I didn’t take advantage of it. On the other hand, when it came to my academics I was not sure what to do, but since the odds were in my favor because I didn’t do stem last year, I ended up with a friend as my partner. So I chose to follow my friends and teacher’s opinion by studying fingerprints for my forensics. This was way more appealing and interesting than my bridge building and my fossils choice. I continued working on my forensics while I left my bridge building to my partner who didn’t do much, and my fossils was also untouched as I had the same partner as my