Meat Inspection Act

Real Life: I judged at History Day L.A. this morning, in the category of middle school group exhibits. Of the ones my group judged, we were most impressed by one about the Meat Inspection Act. It was an amazing exhibit, visually and content-wise. And the girls we interviewed who put it together were super on point and impressive, and learned how to use microfiche, etc, really put a lot of work into it. It spun around and even had a "window" at the bottom with a dimly lit bucket inside with various nasty-condition meats.*

Anyway so they were the winning exhibit from our group's selections. Then a coordinator asked if any of us could stay an extra 2 hours to do the finalist judging. I said I would since nobody else in my group was and I really felt the girls in the meat inspection exhibit did a great job and I needed to pull for their exhibit. It turned out there were only two finalist judges, me and this other guy, and so I was promoting the meat inspection exhibit to him (I really did feel that it was even the best in the finalists), and so we ended up choosing that one as the winner of the whole category to go on to state finals, and then maybe nationals! After that I had to leave but wished I could see the girls' reactions to winning and could be like "I was pulling for you!" I went home and took a long nap as the event started at 7.30am.

Dream: I stayed after the final judging was done, the kids all ran in to see how they did, and I got to see the excited reaction of the girls that did the meat inspection exhibit. Satisfied! Thanks brain!

*The girls are not vegetarians for the record. They said they chose this topic because they actually liked meat and were appalled that it had been so contaminated at one point.