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2nd Channel Early Access: Nottinghack Crapathon 2017 (Patreon)

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2017-10-24 16:22:51
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I took part in Nottingham Hackspace's annual Crapathon, a hackathon where you have to build terrible useless crap. I kind of have a problem with perfectionism, and it's honestly so freeing to be able to just create something, without any social expectation for it to be actually good. That spirit carries over to this video...

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Konsta

Thumbs up for stupid ideas!

Jason Hise

Growing up in Ohio we had an extracurricular program called Odyssey of the Mind that I participated in during elementary school. Toward the start of the school year teams were established with 5-7 kids and an adult coach, who would meet maybe once per week throughout the school year. At each meeting there would be a combination of quick exercises, like going around the table listing as many unique uses as you can think of for a rubber eraser in 3 minutes, or longer exercises like using materials on the table to build something to protect an egg that will be dropped. There was also a year long project that would be worked on incrementally at each meeting which required putting together a skit that had to be integrated with demonstrating a solution to a technical challenge of some kind, for instance automating the transport of something fragile from one side of the stage to the other using only the power of a mousetrap, or building a balsa wood structure that could support as much weight stacked on it as possible. There were something like 6 different long term project options your team could choose from. At the end of the school year teams from across the state would compete both in the short term exercises and with the skits they had prepared. Anyhow, this just reminded me of that. I wish there were more activities like this in general - more regular activities targeted at adults where you could get together to practice creative problem solving. There are plenty of options available if you just want a teacher to teach you a particular topic or skill, but it seems like opportunities for learning and practicing creative problem solving, especially in a team setting, are too few and far between.