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[poptartmia]

heyy everyone, my name's Maria and I'm from Langhorne, Pennsylvania. I was at IC this past weekend for the senior division; this year was actually my first year in states too. It was a lot of fun, I'd like to go back next year! I have some pictures, maybe I'll put them up later

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[ambivertemmers]

I think Redistribution of Wealth might be hard, but then again, I thought Business Crime was going to be hard, too, and it ended up being about... holo-gaming. Not much business crimae at all. But I like the other topics, especially Freedom of Speech.

Emmers

[daily_rant]

Yes--it really was a strange twist wasn't it? We had been focusing on crimes against businesses, not crimes committed by businesses. The previous year it was immigration--earth to another planet!

[lowfatsourcreme]

You'd been focusing on crime against businesses?! Wow, we were doing exactly the opposite - lots on fraud and embezzlement, but very little on crimes to businesses really (unless you count that of a CEO fleecing his unsuspecting company). So we were quite glad that it was the business who was in the wrong.

[lowfatsourcreme]

Here's my opinions:
Climate Change: Seems like the fuzzy will be predictable: the climate is changing. There's not a whole lot of futuristic aspects beside the trends getting worse and not a lot of potential variance for a fuzzy. But it's PP#1 so...

Freedom of Speech: This should be a competition problem! It sounds really interesting, really deep though, like it may be hard to narrow. I could envision a really good fuzzy.

Nutrition: Sounds from FPSP's description that it will be like Agriculture of the 21st Century but more narrow.

Healthcare Access: Without having studied the topic, my initial reaction is: boring...but I hope to be proven wrong.

Redistribution of Wealth: A good IC topic, and not so law based - yay! Interesting too.

[poptartmia]

i don't like how so many are politics/history based because i'm better in the sciences. hopefully they add an interesting twist to healthcare access since it's the IC qualifying one!

[titaniawaking]

Oh, yeah. Personally, I'm a lot better in the social sciences/law oriented fields, but I love nothing more than a really futuristic, science-geared fuzzy, because a) there's so much room for creativity, and b) my teammates are all science geeks, and we get research points out the wazoo ;). I loved the depletion of oceanic species fuzzy at state this year.

[kiwiness_miri]

Ooh, was that a really science-ish one? Should be fun.

(I haven't done that one yet - we're like, half a year behind in the Southern Hemisphere.)

[black_trillium]

Redistribution of wealth and Freedom of speech seem interesting- one's koind of 'up there' now and the others always interesting, what with censorship and terrorism and all that stuff.
The others seem a bit like continuations on topics that always seem to crop up. Ah well. Better than some, i guess.