Slingshot Screening Questions for Attendees
 

To help support our screening of the Slingshot video, we created a short set of questions to give out at the event. Here are the questions if others want to use these.

“Slingshot” Questions

1. What is Dean’s most famous invention?
2. What was Dean’s first invention?
3. What are 50% of all human disease caused by?
4. What is the name of Dean’s latest invention (the water distiller)?
5. What organization did Dean form for students?
6. What company did Dean work with for the clean water project?
7. Where did the name “Slingshot” come from?
8. How many litres of water will the Slingshot produce every day?
9. What does Dean compare the Ghana prototype to?
10. What were some of the problems with the Ghana prototype?
11. Dean has a silent partner. Who is it?
12. Women in underdeveloped countries spend how many hours looking for drinking water?
13. What happens when the water found was not good water?
14. What is one machine Dean wishes was invented now?
15. Why should we care about what Slingshot does?
16. What is a world problem you think we should fix?
17. If you are on a FIRST team, how does FIRST prepare you to solve problems?
18. Why is it important not to quickly dismiss new ideas?
19. How would you rate this movie, on a scale of 1 – 10 (10 the highest score).