[quote=KatherinWinter]
Yes ;) mostly because I'm a curious person. Also just to clear up my confusion. Is the class in the classroom or Sue's arena?
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When I was in third through fifth grade, Oklahoma had a program called the Kaleidoscope Program for elementary school students that tested and performed above their peers. Every day, I would go to the class where they taught you different exercises to help you solve complex problems and how to properly make plans and carry them out, among other things. Periodically throughout the year, there would be different contests among the Kaleidoscope students in each school, then the winners from each school would face off against students from other schools. In fifth grade we had a contest where you had to invent something and either make a model of it, shoot a fake TV ad, or write an essay listing the pros and cons. I made scale model of a working remote control robot of sorts that dumped trashcans for you. I knew there were several impractical things about it, but I pitched it so well that I won at my school. In preparation for when I'd have to go against other schools, I made a full size version using one of those toy jeeps kids can drive around, bicycle chains, hooks made from horse shoes, and a camera. Finally, I rigged the remote control from a toy helicopter and made it control where the jeep went, and when the dumping mechanism turned on or off. I didn't get to the finals of the competition, but I beat the students from like 20 other schools. Looking back, I know there are ways I could have improved it, but I still look back on the experience fondly.