Playing devil's advocate:
- What if some of the trophy designs are really bad? Would you want to receive an ugly trophy?
- How would we decide which competition gets the 1st place and last place trophy designs?
- What if less than 10-12 teams actually participate? There is potential that this could be cost prohibitive for some schools.
- Would some teams be unhappy to potentially receive an "non-professional" trophy? Some of the smaller schools rely on trophies as demonstration of what they do for ABET accreditation.
Thinking out loud...
ReplyDeletePerhaps have each team design one trophy. The trophies would be judged and the top three would be given as the awards for the Mystery (or other smaller) competition. There could be a requirement that a space must be left blank on the trophy such that we can adhere a small plaque denoting 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners to the respective trophies.
Also, please also be aware that Dr. Click was planning a K-12 outreach activity for the typical Visual Display competition. This additional proposed trophy event would be separate and in addition to the aforementioned visual display competition.
Just a funny thought, what kind of trophies would be given to the 'build a trophy' contest?
ReplyDeleteAlso, it would be a little hard to have each school build several trophies (for all the small competitions), so building only one wouldn't be a bad idea....And usually the mystery competition is the one that is taken the least serious.
I like the idea, though it would probably be some tricky rule writing to ensure the trophy wouldn't crumble or break just a few years down the road.
What if we did something similar to the medals awarded for the Vancouver Olympics, which were made out of recycled e-waste? It would certainly go with the theme and we would not have to worry about bad designs.
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