This may not make much sense to people outside University of Chicago, but every year we have a huge scavenger hunt, one of the biggest in the world, where we do things like make a keyboards that can perform logical operations, made a MONIAC cycles of natural systems, and has in the past included one team making a working nuclear reactor.
Me and one other person decided to form a team for this year, and we co-captained this team. We did way better than anyone expected, beating every team that wasn’t an established house team that had over 100 people and lots of monetary resources, while our team had only 15 people.
The biggest thing I did was a showcase item with the MONIAC cycle mentioned earlier. Me and one other person were representing the mercury cycle in nature. We had different plastic bottles representing different parts of nature/forms of mercury, like the atmosphere, methylated and unmethylated mercury, in crustaceans, plankton, fish, ect. The things died or get put in the seafloor, and got pumped back to the top by volcanoes and human activity. (We should have had more stay in the seafloor, but our pump was too powerful.) The flow successfully showed that the top of the food chain got the most mercury, and if the top level “dies” from too much mercury (flows to that bottle were cut off), the next in the chain started to accumulate more mercury.
Other than that, I:
*Wrote 2 Miss American Doll style intro books for KatelynUnit 742-B in the year 2500, KatelynUnit Saves the Never-Ending Day (Because we don’t have night anymore) and STANDARD GREETINGS.
*Made a cod-shaped codpiece
*Made a mashup of 4 Taylor Swift songs of 1989 and gregorian chants (989)
*Made a budget for the Minor Activities Board (parody of the Major Activities Board)
*Made an ad for the main technician in the experimental physics class, Van Bistrow, for his now restaurant, The Van Bistro.
As one of two captains I also did general organizing and made sure other people had what they needed to do their items.
This may not make much sense to people outside University of Chicago, but every year we have a huge scavenger hunt, one of the biggest in the world, where we do things like make a keyboards that can perform logical operations, made a MONIAC cycles of natural systems, and has in the past included one team making a working nuclear reactor.
Me and one other person decided to form a team for this year, and we co-captained this team. We did way better than anyone expected, beating every team that wasn’t an established house team that had over 100 people and lots of monetary resources, while our team had only 15 people.
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The biggest thing I did was a showcase item with the MONIAC cycle mentioned earlier. Me and one other person were representing the mercury cycle in nature. We had different plastic bottles representing different parts of nature/forms of mercury, like the atmosphere, methylated and unmethylated mercury, in crustaceans, plankton, fish, ect. The things died or get put in the seafloor, and got pumped back to the top by volcanoes and human activity. (We should have had more stay in the seafloor, but our pump was too powerful.) The flow successfully showed that the top of the food chain got the most mercury, and if the top level “dies” from too much mercury (flows to that bottle were cut off), the next in the chain started to accumulate more mercury.
Other than that, I:
*Wrote 2 Miss American Doll style intro books for KatelynUnit 742-B in the year 2500, KatelynUnit Saves the Never-Ending Day (Because we don’t have night anymore) and STANDARD GREETINGS.
*Made a cod-shaped codpiece
*Made a mashup of 4 Taylor Swift songs of 1989 and gregorian chants (989)
*Made a budget for the Minor Activities Board (parody of the Major Activities Board)
*Made an ad for the main technician in the experimental physics class, Van Bistrow, for his now restaurant, The Van Bistro.
As one of two captains I also did general organizing and made sure other people had what they needed to do their items.