Leadership, Friday, 3rd Period

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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.

Comments

Re: Tower 2: Alex Aaron / Alice Cullen / Jack Carter / Tony Stark

[godofxbox]

"We have the tape," Alex pointed out. "And balloons don't weigh very much...I think you can get a pretty tall tower if you use the right shape. Right?" he asked, hypothetically to the group at large, but if he seemed to be looking more at Tony Stark if he was there, well, what was the point of a supergenius if you didn't use him?

Re: Tower 2: Alex Aaron / Alice Cullen / Jack Carter / Tony Stark

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

It's what he did best. Oh, and making poor choices. He was the Wolverine of that.

Tony was working away on hi phone, designing something that was structurally sound. "Shouldn't be too hard with the tape."

Re: Tower 2: Alex Aaron / Alice Cullen / Jack Carter / Tony Stark

[godofxbox]

Alex felt like his 'make Tony Stark come up with the plan' plan was coming along great. "How are we going to make it real tall if we can't use powers?" he asked. "I don't know if any of us have powers that could help with that anyway, but...maybe if we build it on its side and then tip it up? Since it won't weigh anything."

Re: Tower 2: Alex Aaron / Alice Cullen / Jack Carter / Tony Stark

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"We build it on the ground and then prop it up, duh." Thank you, Mr. Engineer.