The most wonderful time of the year
by Tommy
Before I answer the knock on the door from the angry, pitchfork-weilding maniacs who despise anyone mentioning Christmas before it’s December, I’m not actually talking about that – well, not exactly.
December in our house has, since 2004 (is it really 5 years this C****mas?) been lovingly intertwined with the Young Scientist, save for the gap between the time Patrick won it and I reached Secondary School.
For new readers, this isn’t my first Young Scientist. In my first year, I entered it with my project of ‘What are the Issues faced by Children with Cerebral Palsy in Mainstream Education”. It was pretty topical for me because I was a wee little first year in a sea of 1,200 other people. Trust Tommy, which was beginning to gather speed, was used to tell the folks who’d be coming to the Exhibition to pop round to Stand #403 or #404 (can’t remember which now) and also to keep a quasi-running commentary about what was going on, the highlight of which was when I nabbed the helium balloon from the girl in the stand next to me (doing a very interesting project about how Wii Sport Tennis compares to Real World Tennis, by the way) and did a sound recording of me squealing: Hiiiiii! This is Tommmyyyyy Collisonnnn of TrustTommmmy.com.. reporting on…… HELIUM!!
The blog is only bigger today than it was last January, so I can only imagine that it’ll be much the same this time round – people who’d be coming to the RDS anyway, find out that their friendly neighborhood blogger is one of the entrants and pop round to my stand. They get to see what are the issues faced by children with CP and I get to put a face to a name or an 140x140px avatar. Win-win!
Right, 300 words later, I’ve yet to chat about what my project this year is. I’ve obviously still to be approved, but we’ll be optimistic and all superstitious and talk about it anyhow. :)
It’s a bloggie project, of course. :) I had an epic phone call with Bernie Goldbach earlier and have another one lined up for tomorrow.
In short, this will rock :)
providing I get through :)