Antici...pation.

It's 7:20 p.m. on a Tuesday night. Going about the business of cameras and posters in anticipation for WE's First Outreach at Stewart Elementary has seriously got me pumped.

B-Tran's POV. 

Creativity should be at an all-time high!

WE's got six experiments going on tomorrow at Stewart Elementary. At the same time! Yeah! Science. 

Shameless self-promoting on WE Sponsor Ms. Olano's board. Always.

Fascinated by bubbles/the blue Powerpuff Girl? Try out the Bouncing Bubbles station headed by Assistant PiE Lead Michael! Please don't drink the soap. 

You have a lemon tree in your backyard? Fantastic. Create a sour source of power over at the Lemon-Powered Battery group led by MESA Lead Thomas! The key? "They need to be really juicy." - Thomas J.

Finding yourself a little out of breath reading too hard? First, consult a doctor, and second, head on over to the Homemade Lung station led by the wonderful Vivanie! (But seriously, call 911.) 

Oh, man. You say your car battery's dead because you somehow left every single light on for a month? Wow. WE can't really help, sorry, BUT we have the Balloon-Powered Car station headed by Treasurer Neilson! Balloons can help out a gloomy soul... Doesn't help? ... It makes it worse? Oh. 

But who doesn't like strawberries? Am I right? Unless you're allergic, in which case I am sincerely sorry. Allergic or not, there's always the Strawberry DNA group of the evening. Literally see what makes strawberries how they are at this station led by the brilliant Katherine! 

Now, have you ever gone to Build-a-Bear Workshop? That cute little place where you customized your own little teddy-bear to say "I Love You!" against its will every time? Well, this is not it. The Build-a-Light Bulb experiment is being led by Secretary Jessa Dee!  

If you think I've seriously spoiled the following evening, you couldn't be more wrong. Not really. But that's no reason to not go. It's a wonderful, educational, and fun night of scientific shenanigans led by a group of way more high schoolers than you thought would be interested in science. Also, I'll be there. Duh. 

So, if you're reading this, by what is now 8:10 p.m. this same Tuesday night (I get distracted. Sorry.) I strongly recommend you attend WE Science Body's first Outreach of the year at Stewart Elementary down here in Pinole. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. and ends at a modest, "school-night" time of 8:00 p.m. (As if high schoolers needed another excuse to not do math homework.) I anticipate your arrival, whether I know you or not. There is no entrance fee and all are welcome (except convicts and party-poopers, it's not super fun to end the night with sirens, people.) 

With that, goodnight, and I hope to see you there! 

WE Begins!

If you're cringing at my grammar, that's alright. WE, in this case, is a singular proper noun. It's not a pronoun. WE is what everyone calls the Pinole Valley High School WE Science Body, because, honestly, that's a mouthful.

The 2013-2014 school year poster for Homecoming! Bringing it back. 

WE is a club at Pinole Valley High School, located in Pinole, California, USA, North America, Planet Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Observable Universe. Don't forget - Room 14! WE is most famous for participating in events known as Outreaches, where WE visits an elementary or middle school to present several experiments led by the wonderful members themselves. WE is also known for participating and representing Pinole Valley competitively in both MESA and UC Berkeley's Pioneers in Engineering, where WE members must organize and present science projects, and in PiE's case, a fully operating robot. A lot of extra work, but, at the same time, a lot of fun if you're genuinely interested in the science behind these separate projects.

WE officially met for the first time this school year on the 29th of August (2014, in case you're not updated), a Friday, as always. WE's officers have been organizing and planning out the year ahead since summer vacation, which ended on the 17th. Hitting the ground running, members of the previous school year's WE met in Mrs. Olano's chemistry lab to get updated on how the year's going to be set up. Talk of a possible field trip to the Exploratorium in San Francisco certainly spurred the interest of everyone in the room. In short, WE got down to business that Friday.

Can't forget that beginning-of-the-year ice breaker. 

WE has - sorry grammar pickers - a bright future ahead this year, and hopefully for the rest of its years. I don't mean to jinx anything. I'd knock on wood, but this Dell is a bit too advanced for that. Tomorrow holds promise for new, fresh faces at the after-school meeting being held, for the school is hosting its annual Club Awareness Day. Club Awareness Day is a small fair held to show off and recruit new members for the several clubs around the school. A lot can be said about Pinole Valley, and one of those is that its extracurriculars are where it's at. I wholeheartedly recommend any freshmen even remotely interested in science or volunteer work to join WE Science Body as a member this year. Granted, I am a bit bias, but I don't lie. Honesty is the best policy. Duh.

Before this post is over and I pick at my little errors, I'd like to formally introduce the WE Science Body Officers this year! There's a whole lot of them, so this is going to take a while.

From left to right!
Back row: Christiano Cuyno, peacekeeper; Thomas Johnston, MESA Lead; Andrew Nguyen, Experiment Lead; Neilson Pacquing, Treasurer; Christian Damonde, Assistant PiE Lead; Junhui Zhou, PiE Lead; Michael Mart, Assistant PiE Lead.
Front row: Sofia San Bartolome, Publicist; Jessa Dee Carino, Secretary; Lisa Romero, Vice President; Brittany Tran, President!

Are y'all serious?
(Also- Mrs. Olano! WE's Club Sponsor and lovely lady of the everyday.)

Of course they can't be serious. What did you really expect?