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Bad Ideas 2006
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Bad Ideas 2006, January 20 - January 22
Tentative Schedule
Friday | |
3PM | Kickoff BBQ/Housemaster event |
9PM-Midnight | EC Triathalon |
Saturday | |
3PM | BBQ |
7PM | Bad Ideas Banquet |
8PM-10PM | Seminars: Rapelling, Soldering |
8PM-12AM | Film Festival |
Night | Campout |
Sunday | |
3PM | Tests of Strength and Will |
8PM | Judging |
10PM | Bad Ideas Ball |
Who's doing what
- Advertising - Jenn
- Materials - Harvey
- Food - Conor, Sean
- Scheduling - Harvey
- Safety office - Harvey et. al
- Videotaping - Conor, Schuyler, Matt
Food
- Bad ideas banquet
- Sawzall turkey?
- Deep fried Anna's
- Outside BBQ
- Spit-roasting
EC Olympiad
- Eating contest - Sarah Hopp
- Stairclimbing
- Drilling screws into wood
Others
- Amphitheater sledding
- Water war
- Rat bounty
Bad Ideas
- east to west parallel suspension bridge
- gigantic snow structures (walk-in igloo, whatever) Mini-replica of EC?
- R2D2-like 3-D projection idea. vertical projection onto a half-helix. needs parallel-light LED's. anyone interested? -dheera
- paint wrestling (washable paint)
- water gun fight but with high fructose corn syrup, not water
- propeller-powered wheelchair -zoz
- More advanced version of the Green Building Challenge HarveyJ 00:18, 22 October 2005 (EDT)
- Self-heating mobile hot tub
- Giant sippy cups
- Sledding hill in courtyard - complete w/ ski-lift.
- Giant Lite Brite. giant lite brite!!! -jdascoli
- The Wasabi Challenge (like the Milk ChallengeTM, but with wasabi.)
- Golden calf
- Automated spinning chair
- Mousetraps
- Metric Time
- Giant clock
- Giant binary clock
- Giant metric binary clock
- Giant clock-tower
- Bell tower
- Bed with no brakes - 2E [Oops - There's no time for us to build it, sorry]
- Swing
- Flying bike - Vinay
- Foundry
- Sailing on land
- Pogo platform
- Plunger cannon
- Inverse tug-o-war
- Rappelling Seminar - Liz
- Soldering Seminar
Traditions
- Overnight tent-city campout
- Outdoors film festival - Ruth, Ben, Sarah
- Snowstorm naked hot tub