{"id":927,"date":"2018-03-28T16:31:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/?p=927"},"modified":"2018-03-28T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:31:40","slug":"ritvik-the-great-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Ritvik &#8211; The Great Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-929\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/image001.jpg-2-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/image001.jpg-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/image001.jpg-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/image001.jpg-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/image001.jpg-2-700x525.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Tuesday, March 27<span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The day started with the closing awards ceremony, and to my surprise I won first prize! In the chaos of the day, our volunteer got confused and sent our whole team up to collect my prize, so in this way, I won for all of team USA. Then, as we were coming off stage, Elizabeth also\u00a0got called\u00a0up again because she won in her category! Satisfied and\u00a0accomplished, we then started our journey to the Great\u00a0Wall\u2026except the air quality today was the worst yet. Nevertheless, our delegation, along with Australians we recently\u00a0be friended, began the trek up one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The stairs were steep\u2014and endless. Just as we thought we reached the top, there were more, some\u00a0almost half\u00a0my height each. At last, after an hour of stair climbing, and according to Elizabeth\u2019s watch, 92 flights of stairs, we reached the top of the wall. We took some pictures with our new friends and headed down a tram ride this time with some Mango Ice Cream in hand. Tired but happy, we returned to our hotel for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Although the rest of the delegation went to sleep soon after, I went down to the lobby for some last fun times with the Australians, Israeli, and Danish delegations. I play cards for\u00a0nearly two\u00a0hours and learned different games like\u00a0Yasef\u00a0and Slam. We said our goodbyes, and thus ended the best day on the trip thus far.\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0attached a picture of Alex, from Australia, and I on the Great Wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, March 27th The day started with the closing awards ceremony, and to my surprise I won first prize! In the chaos of the day, our volunteer got confused and sent our whole team up to collect my prize, so in this way, I won for all of team USA. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[131,129],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beijing-2018","tag-beijing-2018","tag-ritvik","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ncsciencecompetition.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}