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elderberrywine) wrote2017-08-19 08:42 pm
elderberrywine) wrote2017-08-19 08:42 pm
So to add to my freshman boy comment.
In my Eng Intro class, we were talking about innovation. Like designers come up with wild crazy ideas, engineers figure out how to do it, and all of a sudden you've got a camera on your phone.
So they were assigned, in their groups, to improve the common white Styrofoam coffee cup, and come up with all sorts of wild things they would add to it. Then they had to give an "Elevator Pitch", a 2 minute concentrated sales pitch to the rest of the class. This was Friday, and 6th period (last class of the day), and a good time was being had by all. And then the final team of 3 came up. This team consists of a senior, a tall rather serious Latino boy, and a couple of freshman, Big Mac and NEE-juan (using the phonetical version of his name, since I shouldn't post actual names). Both freshmen are on the freshman football team. Big Mac is totally believable, since he's a tall boy and built for strong, shaved head and all. But NEE-juan? Maaaaybe 5 feet and 90 pounds on a good day, looking like he's visiting from 5th grade.
Most of the teams had made up a sort of prototype, or made a drawing, and their cups lit up, had a UCB port, automatically re-filled, etc. The crazier the better.
But when it's time for his team to come up, NEE-juan holds the unaltered cup out and, with a dead-pan that rivals Buster Keaton, drawls, "Cuuuuup." Big Mac starts losing it on the side about now.
In the audience, there's a kid who is a dead ringer for Michael Jackson, Thriller era. Earlier on, he had chortled, "Oh, so this is like Shark Tank?" and has been peppering all the other groups with questions ever since. (He also is on the freshman football team - these three are clearly friends.) After we all wait for more and don't get it, MJ kid starts to goad him on. "What does it do, NEE-juan?"
NEE-juan holds the cup out again. "STIIIIIIIIrofoam," he announces. By now Big Mac and the Latino guy are dying.
"That's all you got?" MJ kid goes for him. "That's all you got NEE-juan?"
And just as his 2 minutes are up, "It hooooooolds stuff."
His team gets the highest presentation rating. Good times.
So they were assigned, in their groups, to improve the common white Styrofoam coffee cup, and come up with all sorts of wild things they would add to it. Then they had to give an "Elevator Pitch", a 2 minute concentrated sales pitch to the rest of the class. This was Friday, and 6th period (last class of the day), and a good time was being had by all. And then the final team of 3 came up. This team consists of a senior, a tall rather serious Latino boy, and a couple of freshman, Big Mac and NEE-juan (using the phonetical version of his name, since I shouldn't post actual names). Both freshmen are on the freshman football team. Big Mac is totally believable, since he's a tall boy and built for strong, shaved head and all. But NEE-juan? Maaaaybe 5 feet and 90 pounds on a good day, looking like he's visiting from 5th grade.
Most of the teams had made up a sort of prototype, or made a drawing, and their cups lit up, had a UCB port, automatically re-filled, etc. The crazier the better.
But when it's time for his team to come up, NEE-juan holds the unaltered cup out and, with a dead-pan that rivals Buster Keaton, drawls, "Cuuuuup." Big Mac starts losing it on the side about now.
In the audience, there's a kid who is a dead ringer for Michael Jackson, Thriller era. Earlier on, he had chortled, "Oh, so this is like Shark Tank?" and has been peppering all the other groups with questions ever since. (He also is on the freshman football team - these three are clearly friends.) After we all wait for more and don't get it, MJ kid starts to goad him on. "What does it do, NEE-juan?"
NEE-juan holds the cup out again. "STIIIIIIIIrofoam," he announces. By now Big Mac and the Latino guy are dying.
"That's all you got?" MJ kid goes for him. "That's all you got NEE-juan?"
And just as his 2 minutes are up, "It hooooooolds stuff."
His team gets the highest presentation rating. Good times.