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TravusCubington 14-08-2014 13:37

Re: ALS Bucket Challenge, CD everyone is challenged
 
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Originally Posted by Libby K (Post 1396410)
Some are doing it right, others are just doing it for the likes. Not cool at all.[/size][/i])

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Originally Posted by Cory (Post 1396367)
Even better, just donate and don't waste a bunch of water/ice.

But Koray n Libi how I sposta show off my beach body?

Libby K 14-08-2014 13:44

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Originally Posted by connor.worley (Post 1396445)
Getting off topic, but here's an interesting documentary on the subject of water

Watch Flow, and then go see Slingshot.

http://slingshotdoc.com/

(No, actually, See it if you can. This is Dean's other 'big project' besides FIRST and if we could all go support him in this, it'd mean the world.)

Chinmay 14-08-2014 13:52

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Originally Posted by Cory (Post 1396442)
The world has a finite amount of fresh water. It all matters. Maybe not to us, but certainly it will to the generation that follows us.

Isn't the whole point of slingshot to create fresh water. If so, then there is not a finite amount of fresh water. Either way, the water on the earth is cycled through... I think I might be missing something... How are we somehow permanently consuming our fresh water?


Im not trying to get into an argument with you, but I disagree that this is a "waste" of water. I think its a pretty darn useful way of using water to raise awareness for something that I am realizing is very important, and something that I was completely in the dark about a month ago. Americans use 400 gal of water on average per day. I think there are other things we should cut back on before we cut back on using a few gallons to raise money for a deserving charity.


I would also like to second the suggestions to go see slingshot. Awesome movie if you can find a theater that'll play it.

Libby K 14-08-2014 13:57

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Originally Posted by Chinmay (Post 1396453)
Isn't the whole point of slingshot to create fresh water. If so, then there is not a finite amount of fresh water.
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I would also like to second the suggestions to go see slingshot. Awesome movie if you can find a theater that'll play it.

To your first point:
There's plenty of water in the world. There's not a lot of low-cost, clean, accessible water for people to drink. That's the aim of Slingshot. It's not just creating infinite water, it's taking the dirty water that these areas have access to and making it clean. It's a cycle.

Second point:
More screenings coming soon, so that will be an awesome thing. :)

Taylor 14-08-2014 14:14

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There are lots of noble causes out there to support, as well as amazing documentaries that chronicle them.
While I appreciate the bumps, let's please stay on Wendy's original topic in this thread. There is already a place to discuss Dean's Slingshot.
My previous post linked to a place to make donations if you please; here is the whole ALS Association website.
Those of us directly affected thank you.

Chris is me 15-08-2014 02:39

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The challenge didn't go viral and didn't find the success it has managed to have by one dude going "okay, Internet, you're all challenged, do it now or donate $100!" It caught on because the challenges following it were individual and targeted. This creates some social obligation to follow through, as well as an entertaining few second video clip of your friends covered in ice. Hopefully , ideally, that makes you stop scrolling through Facebook for a second to at least think about and research disorders like ALS. (Honestly, I think Facebook embedding videos on mobile is a huge part of why this caught on.)

Effective and useful (hey, $4 million+ isn't a joke), or pointless and stupid, whatever you want to call it, challenging 1000+ people all at once just doesn't work. It's so broad no one feels any obligation to do it, which was the main impetus kicking this meme forward. If I posted "the entirety of the Internet is now challenged", how many people would do it because of what I said? Probably nobody.

That said, it is by all means a worthy cause and I hope no one on the fence uses this post to rationalize not donating.

Shrub 15-08-2014 12:06

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Actually, this was mildly popular with teams a few weeks before MN State Champs, but it was just a cold water challenge with no donation whatsoever if I remember correctly. Teams here just went to the lake and freezed their butts off (which of course raised health issues because the water was way, way too cold to be swimming in) and after a while there were police officers (rumour has it) patrolling the local lakes and warning people against doing it.
It was pretty silly, and our team never did it as a whole even when we were supposed to (although people on our team did anyway, including me. I got kinda sick). It's better to put your effort into actually educating yourself on why you were told to go jump in a lake than jumping in the lake yourself and getting sick (summer colds = bad).

Justin Montois 15-08-2014 17:38

Re: ALS Bucket Challenge, CD everyone is challenged
 
Water has a cost. Granted we shouldn't be "wasting it" but by looking at this quote and the included statistic, it seems like water well spent.

"The ALS Association, the nation’s largest ALS charity, says it’s raised $1.35 million in the past two weeks, versus a paltry $22,000 in the same period last year. Project ALS, a New York-based non-profit that funds ALS research, told the Post it’s received nearly 50 times the donations it usually gets this time of year"

waialua359 15-08-2014 19:25

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Hawaii folks have been doing it all summer the past couple of months. Perfect time to cool off from our usual hot weather while supporting a worthy cause.

Wendy Holladay 18-08-2014 20:32

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More 1912ers taking the challenge. And everyone, please remember to donate

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...type=2&theater

tickspe15 19-08-2014 01:33

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We were challenged by our schools principle to build a "robot" to dump the bucket on them. This is what we came up with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuDo...6ZAgZsoG_hyEmQ

The school also made a video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zykyDleSjy8

Taylor 19-08-2014 07:03

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That is so beyond cool. (no pun intended). Reverse dunk tank FTW!

g_sawchuk 19-08-2014 16:01

Re: ALS Bucket Challenge, CD everyone is challenged
 
Just going to share my two cents here, because I feel that they're needed.
I see the intention of this project. It's to raise awareness, and many would argue that it has been beyond successful in this aspect. However, the truth is, it has not. I guarantee you, three quarters of the people who actually do the challenge don't even know what ALS is. I didn't know what it was after seeing nearly 200 videos of people dumping ice cold water over their heads. But one Google search was much more effective. In one google search, I completely understood what ALS was. It's therefore proven that watching 200 people make a fool of themselves is such an uneffective way of raising awareness for this awful disease.

The truth is, most people aren't even doing this with the intention of awareness. It's really just another ridiculous bandwagon, like twerking, or weird hashtags. People do it to be in a "clique" and do it to try and seem "cool". I appreciate those who do it with the intention of awareness, and I really wish their efforts really were raising true awareness.

Now, an effective way that this could work would be by requiring people who do the challenge to describe the disease in the same post as their video in their social media post. That way knowledge of the disease would spread, therefore creating meaningful awareness. I strongly recommend for everyone to choose to donate, but please, don't make a fool of yourselves just to jump in the bandwagon, and don't bother wasting all that water. It's like you're taunting those who cannot have water. If we took all the water dumped on each and every one of you, and gave it to the people who can't even get a cup of clean water everyday, I think it would do a lot more good.

In short, this is why I shall not be dumping a waste of ice cold water over my head.

evanperryg 19-08-2014 16:12

Re: ALS Bucket Challenge, CD everyone is challenged
 
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Originally Posted by Wendy Holladay (Post 1396352)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...type=2&theater

Hey FIRSTers, I was nominated for the ALS Bucket Challenge. I know by now everyone has heard of this but if you haven't you now have 24 hours to take the challenge or donate $100 to ALS. STEM is the answer to these extremely difficult problems. Please help this extremely worthy cause.


This might be the one time Charlie Sheen should be a good example to us: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.1908475

mwtidd 19-08-2014 16:32

Re: ALS Bucket Challenge, CD everyone is challenged
 
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Originally Posted by GrifBot (Post 1396974)
I guarantee you, three quarters of the people who actually do the challenge don't even know what ALS is. I didn't know what it was after seeing nearly 200 videos of people dumping ice cold water over their heads. But one Google search was much more effective. In one google search, I completely understood what ALS was.

Would you have Google'd ALS if the campaign wasn't going on?

Seems a lot of people are doing exactly what you did.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore...y%203-m&cmpt=q


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