3rd Grade SET Champion

Emily and her friend Sophie competed at the Weber School District Math and Science Olympiad yesterday.  There were a couple of qualifying competitions at the school and they had the two highest scores for SET in the third grade, so they got to go to the district competition.  (Emily also got one of the two highest scores for Krypto, but she could only compete in one event and “SET is lots more fun.”)  When I picked the kids up from school Elise came running up and whispered, “Don’t tell her that I told you because she’ll be really mad, but Emily won.”  Emily came up a minute later wearing a gold medal and a big smile on her face.  She and Sophie had taken 1^st place for the third grade and 3^rd place out of all the teams from 3^rd-6^th grade in the district.  I was so happy for her.  I felt a little guilty about not going to watch the competition.  I asked her if there were lots of parents there.  She said, “Probably about 1/3 of the kids had parents there, but you should be glad you didn’t go.  It was really boring.  We just had to sit around all day and wait for our turn.”  I’m glad she didn’t feel neglected.