Being selected for the enrichment program at my school requires you to do well on the ISATS (tests) taken the year before, your over all grades and teacher recommendation. Then, our music teacher (who runs the enrichment group as well) sends out forms to the enrichment kids and the first however many kids bring in the form signed and with money get to be on the Team Quest teams. Then later on you find out your team (which would be made up of fellow "Big E" classmates.) The Big E is what a few of my friends and I call enrichment!:) The next round will be in Arcola again. The location for the finals has not been announced yet.
My favorite challenge was creating a four decker bunk bed out of cardboard, straws, paper, tape, etc! Each bed had to support a "doll", which was a small bowling pin filled with sand that weighed about two pounds. Our team made a bed with three bunks and it supported one doll.
I believe we did best with the challenge where we made an improved thing that we made out of a pile of glitter bottles, paper, a spring, a red puff ball, etc. We created a child safe TV and used a fork as the child lock key that could lock and unlock the "channels". It's display was the Mr. Fork show.
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How much time do they allow you to build something like the bunk bed? That must be hard to do with only the materials they give you. Good luck on your next quest.
grammy
Wow. You guys must really have to work as a team to come up with those ideas. The bunk bed sounds awesome and your kids TV idea was very inventive. Good luck in the next round and thanks for answering my questions.
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