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Season 99 comments
Posted by Jessica Boucher at 12/26/2000 11:41 AM EST
Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.
In Reply to: Re: Those ramps = big ouch!
Posted by Ken Leung on 12/26/2000 8:37 AM EST:
I will agree on the point that the puck was easy to explain and quite exciting, but floppies were another story altogether. If you did as many demos as I did (especially to little kids, because we did demos at all 4 elementary schools in town plus a middle school & a jr. high), the puck was easy to describe due to the hockey reference (even though we didnt bring it with us to demos), but floppies, though right there when we described them, were a little tougher because of the computer reference (because, yes, in Watertown they still make use of Apple IIes complete with 5 1/4' disks known as floppies).
So, if I had the coice, I would stick with the puck and do away with the floppies. Furthermore, there was way too much guesswork in making them (a way to resolve this would be to sell pre-cut parts and pre-measured bags of material for the inside, ours were way too thin)
Plus, kids liked the use of playground balls and really grasped the concept that they never bounce the same way twice.
-Jessica B, #237
: I will have to say the puck and floppies from 1999 was much more effective in showing/telling about the FIRST competition, and still provide a really fun game to play/watch. You have got to love how a small moving platform created the whole exciting atmosphere!
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