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Re: How to keep new students entertained?
A lot of great advice posted above. I would also suggest a couple quicky design challenges. These tend to be 30 minute challenges, but typically take about 1 hour to hand out materials and measure "winning" criteria. Marhsmallow tooth-pick towers are a good starter on these. Very simple and cheap. The idea is to promote small group collaborative effort. 4 is an ideal number of students and they have to find consensus without the "vote" option.
There are lots of other cheap mini-challenges like this and I can send you a link to some of my favorites.
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