Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

We had our De State Science Olympiad Competition today —-

ScienceKid took a First in Storm the Castle;

2nd in Rocks & Minerals

8th in Mission Possible (would have taken first but the table was shaky and that caused several machines to prematurely fire)

10th in Heredity

?? in Food Science

He’s really annoyed by his Food Science and Heredity results, and upset that his Mission Possible device didn’t work as it had at home due to their shaky table — we even saw a table totally collapse on a couple kids!!!  How awful to see that table collapse and their box go tumbling down to the ground.

His team came through with many of the kids taking First and Second place in their events.  Lots of 4th, 5th and 6th places too.

Then they announced the results; that Delaware was getting to send two teams to Nationals, the top two teams from the top two schools.  We came in 3rd place, the 1st and 2nd place teams were from the same school—HBDuPont, SO that means our Tri-State Homeschool Team is GOING!!!

This will make the 3rd year that we will head to the National Science Olympiad Competition.  ScienceKid is thrilled—last year he took First Place in Storm the Castle and he so badly wanted to return and ‘defend’ his title this year and all season we thought we wouldn’t have that chance.  And here it is.

And going to a National SO Competition is just so thrilling!  What an experience it was to go the first year.  How Grand it was to go last year; but to be able to return for a third year is just totally amazing.  Amazing!!

We don’t know how we are going to come up with the $$$$$$  to fly 15 kids and a parent out there, but somehow we will do it.   Since we are a home school team we do not have the backing of the community to fund us; or a PTA to fund raise for us; or tax money we can use to pay for the trip like the schools we go up against…..but the Lord has provided the past two years so we are praying…

I cannot believe this.  When will I wake from this dream??