Competitive Teambuilding, Tuesday, period 1

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Eliot had decided to let his partners sleep in this week (there may or may not have been late night teasing about Jacob Stone and the things he'd had to say about Eliot's life style over the weekend), and met the students in the Danger Shop alone. Jake's notes from the weekend had all sounded rather more mechanical than artsy or magical, all about "power, focus, and effect", which had gotten Eliot thinking about some of his old class assignments in a real actual public high school, and after some poking around in the system, he'd found an old scrap yard program he felt would work well for his purposes.

"Hey kids," he greeted as class was scheduled to start. "Hope you enjoyed the movie last week. Or the nap you took during the movie last week. This week we're getting back to work with something that may well be pretty familiar to those of you who've taken any modern American science classes." He picked an egg up out of a carton sitting somewhat precariously on a broken car seat. "Congratulations!" He grinned. "This is not your baby."

What? Ethics had that crap covered.

He tossed the egg into the air and caught it, then picked up two more from the carton and idly juggled them. "Your mission, yadda yadda, is to work out a way to drop one of these suckers off of that sucker," he pointed to a cherry picker, "without breaking it. You can use anything you find in this junkyard to do it. Points are awarded for lightweight design, speed of the drop, and creativity. Word to the wise: a banana is not actually a lightweight option here. But would've counted for creativity if I hadn't just told you about it." He caught the eggs again and tossed one to one member of each team. "You've got the whole class to work something out, and a whole carton of eggs to test drive with before the grand event. Get crackin'."

Yeah. He didn't even notice that pun. Sorry.

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Physically

During the lecture

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Check out the lay of the land. Talk amongst yourselves. Worry about being afraid of heights.

Get to work

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The goal is low mass, high speed, and durability! Hey, if you can manage to rig something up to boil that egg on before the end of class, Eliot's not going to dock you for it. . . .

Egg drop!

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Will it break?! The egg, not the cherry picker. The cherry picker is perfectly solid, we promise. [RNG declares: team 3 in first, team 2 in second, team 1 trailing behind]

Talk to Eliot

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Or the other teachers, if they make their way in.

OOC

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My best friend in the entire world and I first bonded over this project in ninth grade. The banana was my plan. We had to sew two bananas together to get the egg to fit. It was the heaviest project in the grade and the egg still broke.

I also made this girl haul firewood into the backyard with me the first time she came over to my house. It's a miracle she ever spoke to me again.