Hi, long time lurker, first time poster!
My daughter is in the 9th grade at a moderately competitive magnet school. Students can only be on one of these three teams, robotics, forensics and Science Olympiad. She has done both forensics and Science Olympiad in middle school, an gotten awards in both, but is now faced with the dilemma of choosing. Both teams are pretty successful, forensics has members who routinely place, and Science Olympiad was 3rd at state last year, hoping for a 2nd place finish this year which gives them a spot at Nationals.
She describes herself as having two parts to her extracurriculars, her interest in science and math (as shown through math competitions, science fairs), and her interest in humanities (Scholastic Writing Awards, forensics, Nat'l history day, blog). We are unsure whether to go with Science Olympiad or to go with Forensics and supplement with other science EC's like HOSA, USA Biology Olympiad or Science Fair. If anyone's been in a somewhat similar situation and has some insight, please advise.
Thank you!
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