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<aside> 👳🏽♂️ Sehej Bindra, as a Silver National Medalist in Meteorology and molecular biology student at UC Berkeley, he has taught four Meteorology courses at ScioVirtual, amounting to over 100 students. Both the 2021 and 2022 National Science Olympiad Meteorology champions were students at ScioVirtual. Sehej will be teaching Meteorology in ScioCamp 2022.
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<aside> 👨🏾🔬 Raghav Sriram, a head officer at the Indiana State Championship team Carmel HS and multiple time medalist in the National Science Olympiad competition, Raghav has taught Water Quality and Meteorology at ScioVirtual. Raghav will be teaching Meteorology with Sehej in ScioCamp 2022.
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<aside> 👨🏽🔬 Shreyash Singh, a national medalist from WW-P North (including third place in Meteorology) and camper at US Earth Science Olympiad, Shreyash has taught multiple courses in astronomy and meteorology at ScioVirtual.
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<aside> 👬 Harsh Ambardekar & Varun Kute, North Carolina state Science Olympiad competitors from Green Hope High School that taught Advanced Meteorology at ScioVirtual.
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Breakout room team working on meteorological forecast prediction with Sehej in ScioVirtual’s live Meteorology class.
ScioVirtual has taught over 100 students meteorology. In fact, the last two meteorology national gold medalist teams (2021 and 2022) took ScioVirtual classes! From our teaching experience and competing in Meteorology ourselves, here are some thoughts on preparing for the competition!
Meteorology relies on thinking critically about the real world
I am going to elaborate on this below, but if you’ve taken meteorology tests, you might’ve realized there are two types of questions you will run into:
Within those two categories, you will find a rich diversity of question types: data interpretation, analysis, conclusions, definitions, graph construction, and even math sometimes.
That’s why I like meteorology. Some people get meteorology wrong and mistake it for simply memorizing random facts. Although there is some memory involved (like in any field of science), I believe the core of meteorology is applying knowledge to explain what we see in the sky: an inquisitive process that forces students to think deeply and critically.
This idea of “deep thinking” might not make much sense or seem intimidating. So, here are two steps to guide your learning journey.
This step is the most straightforward: just learn the topics listed in the event sheet.
To do this, you’re probably going to have to learn the concepts yourself, and you’re probably going to just be searching for websites online (I wouldn’t recommend textbooks for Meteorology).
The hard parts, however, are:
These are three questions that no one has an easy answer to. Rather, I believe that being able to have strategies to answer these questions is not only going to be important for competitions and academics, but literally everything you will do for the rest of your life.
Open the event sheet, create a list of each topic in the event sheet, and then spend around one hour on each topic.
In middle school, tests are mostly just knowing things. For example, the first bullet point on the event sheet is just knowing the difference between “weather” and “climate”.
If you don’t know the difference, I would Google “weather or climate”, and then read up at least two articles. Next, I would figure out what note-taking system works best for you.
I personally use a different Google Doc for each bigger topic, and review the docs periodically. As I’m reviewing the docs, I reprocess information by representing the topics through drawings in my notebook.