225 Rubik's Cubes and 6 Swartdogs

[Tom Ore]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Bruce,
Congrats to 525 for thinking way outside the box (as usual)!

The cool part is that this was done entirely by the students. From the idea that they wanted to do something, to the planning and execution, to keeping it a secret until just before the event, and holding back some info on just what they were going to do. It was really quite effective at drawing people into our booth at the fair - to talk with the students and learn about FIRST.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Then please pass along my congrats to the students on a job well done.

[Vince lau]

Did they use algorithm for each pattern on the cube?

[Tom Ore]

I don't know the software they used but, they first digitized the pictures into a 45 x 45 grid (15 cubes with 3 squares per cube.) Then they approximated the colors with colors available on the cubes. They printed out the image on 9 sheets of paper which each had 5 x 5 grids. Each student worked from one of the sheets and solved the cubes to match.