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Shop Class; Wednesday, Third Period [04/17].

"Alright, then, class," Amaya greeted them with a nod and a faint smirk; she'd be lying if she said she wasn't looking forward to seeing what they might have come up with for their final project, "this is it. I'll let you all take a few minutes for some last minute touches and whatever you need to do to get your projects set up, but then it's time to go around and show off your machines. Simple as that, and then you're done. You've been a real good class and I just hope you had fun and learned something new and useful."

And she particularly liked how she didn't have to constantly worry about someone exploding this time around.

Truly, it was the little things in life.

"Let's get to it, then!"

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Like it's not the last time you're signing in for the last time (probably).

Norman Babcock

If you've got any last minute adjustment or fixes or changes to make or questions, now's the time to get 'em in.

Obviously, the more ridiculous and complex your Rube Goldberg machine is, especially if the task it performs is coversely incredibly simple, the more impressed Amaya will be, even if it doesn't exactly work out the way you've planned. Because ambition holds a lot of water, too, and at least you tried.

And she may be realizing a little after the fact that this project had some really significant potential for some pretty big disasters. Whoops? Eh, nah, they're smart kids, they'll be fiiiiine.

Norman's machine for turning the pages of comic books was, in fact, huge and ridiculous, because every time he'd come up with something to serve a particular function, he realized that it maybe messed with the dynamics of something else over there, or the tragectory was a little off but it could clearly be fixed by adding more marbles, and then by the time that had been finished he was just trying to get all the pollen out of his system without just quietly curling up and dying, so he'd gone and made another machine that had the sole purpose of reversing all the mechanisms in the first so that he could run it all over again without having to manually re-set it.

And it topped off a soda glass in the process.

Yup. That'll do it.

"Self-sustaining and everything," Amaya noted with a small amount of pride and mildly noted that that week might have been the best week for this sort of assignment, because who knew what people could come up with when they were trying to think of literally everything and anything else? "Well done, Norman. Now I guess the real trick would be figuring out a way to regulate the timing more efficiently to match reading pace."

Because just because something was great didn't mean it couldn't still be better!

"I guess having more parts in there to make the whole process a little bit longer would work," Norman mused. "Or having a button to hit to add a temporary barrier if I decide I want to spend a little longer than usual inspecting a certain panel. Comics are a little weird that way, since it's not just words, it's art too, you know?"

She's most certainly there, should she be needed, wondering if it was unethical to pack away any particular good ideas any of them had to reuse again for herself at some point in time.

When he pings in!

Norman was here! And actually kind of looking forward to the summer. Not that summer actually meant a reprieve from classes or anything, nah, but at least it meant he wasn't trying to put together a rube goldberg machine in the week before Prom, and all that entailed...

Pffft. Wednesdays. -_-

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Shop Class; Wednesday, Third Period [04/17].

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