fandomhigh | Leadership, Friday, 3rd Period

Scott sent out an e-mail letting his students know that they were going to be meeting in the Danger Shop this week. And as probably half the class knew, when you put Scott Summers in charge of a group in a room whose name began with 'Danger,' things were going to get pretty interactive.

This was probably a different kind of interactive than those people were thinking, though. You could probably tell that by the fact that Scott was holding a balloon in the middle of a park on a sunny day.

"A crucial part of leadership is understanding how to actually work in a team," Scott said, kicking things off. "So today, we're going to be doing a small team-building exercise."

"I've put you into four teams of four. You're going to be building balloon towers. The goal is to build the tallest tower you can before the end of the period using nothing but the provided balloons, rolls of masking tape, and your wits. And if anyone here has powers, those are forbidden for this exercise," Scott said. "So no flying up to dangle a string of balloons from the top of the room, no telekinesis to stabilize the tower. If you do that, I'll use one of my powers."

Scott pulled out a remote and pointed it at the balloon he was holding. It popped. No, he wasn't going to use optic blasts for that.

"Good luck."

Was that a suspicious smirk as he said that? Nah, couldn't be.

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You get yellow balloons.

Edited 2012-01-20 06:30 (UTC)

Warren was not at all frowning about the 'no powers' thing. Really.

"I guess the easiest way for us to do this would be for each of us to make smaller towers, and then stick them together as they get too big for one person to handle? We don't want to be tripping over one another, all trying to add to the same chain at once," he suggested, looking thoughtfully at the balloons and tape.

"I guess that makes sense," Quinn concurred. She'd been preoccupied bouncing a balloon lightly off the sides of her hands. "I mean, I'm not exactly an engineer, but that doesn't sound hard."

"We may also want to designate one person to put all the smaller pieces together, to streamline things," Susan suggested, eyeing the tape and glaring at a balloon like she was trying to send a message to it that if any of the balloons popped there was going to be a Problem and it had better tell the rest of its little balloon friends that.

"Couldn't we, like, start out with some small balloons and add a bigger balloon base to the bottom and keep building them up from the bottom?" Britta offered, frowning and hoping her tone made it clear that she was hardly a balloon building expert herself. "That way, like, I don't know. How hard can it be to keep lifting balloons to add more to the bottom, and if you tape them, maybe they won't topple?"

And then, before she could help it, there was a small grunt and a murmur of, "I swear, this is totally stupid assignment day or something."

Leadership, Friday, 3rd Period

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