Science Rally Report

 

     On October 26th, 2024, the first science rally was held at Xochicalco High School. All three high school grades were invited to participate, both traditional and bilingual modalities. The game was played in teams of five students, with the condition that they had to be students of the same modality and grade. For better organization, the rally took different schedules for each year and modality, so the first semester traditional students had the event at a different time than the bilingual students, and so on consecutively for each semester of high school.

     The activity consisted of two parts: physical activity and mental agility. The first one was about completing different physical challenges, for example, sack race, in this activity, the contestants were all lined up at the starting line, the first in line had to jump with the sack on his feet and get to the finish line, then take off the sack and run back to the starting line again, where his teammate was waiting to repeat the same dynamic until the last one finished. If you managed to win any of these games, you got a certain amount of points.

     The second part consisted of solving a certain problem or question, which could be from the following subjects: mathematics, physics or biology. The questions were answered as a team, and each team had a designated blackboard and pen. The winning team was the one that answered before the others and also had a correct answer. 

     There were about five different games, each with a question at the end. The teams that finished in the top three highest scores took a percentage of their exam grade, with the first team taking 40%, the second team 20% and the third team 10%. 

   As a team, we can confirm that this was a very fun and enriching event, which forced our physical and mental agility to work hard. We also realized that the choice of the team you will play with is very important, as this whole activity is based on the ability of a group of students to work in synchrony and harmony.