My 5th grade daughter has been super insanely busy recently.

1) - She had an Odyssey of the Mind competition on March 15. I coach the team which consists of her and 6 other girls. They won 2nd place!

2) - She had the Science Fair at her school yesterday. She won 1st place in the Behavioral & Social Sciences category, and gets to go on to the county competition. She did a project on teaching rats to go through a maze, and whether or not different rewards would make them learn faster. I've posted a few times on here about it. Due to tons of problems with how her teacher was handling the situation it was a huge headache for our family. But we still had fun with the actual experiment and I was impressed that my daughter's outlook on the project remained positive despite the negativity from her teacher. A HUGE THANKS TO BP.NET'S VERY OWN MEME FOR LOANING US THE RATS!!

3) - She has an Art Fair tomorrow. This isn't really anything she can "win". It is for the whole county and the art teachers are supposed to select a wide variety of outstanding artwork done by students of different grade levels. She made a sculpture of a snake that will be on display.

Also, as a sort of footnote to the Science Fair.... the other girls on my Odyssey of the Mind team did very well. Every single one of them won a prize except one who was a 3rd grader so she wasn't in the Science Fair at all... 3 firsts including my daughter, 2 thirds, and an honorable mention.