Friday, May 24, 2013

Sample Long-term Synergy of the Mind project


                                                            JUDGING SHEET    

The Problem
Your team is to create a minimum of three live characters.  These must be Hero, Sidekick, and a distressed person.  Your solution to the problem is to be developed around this scenario; Hero and Sidekick are to stand in the Neighborhood.  Each travels with a suitcase.  They open their suitcases, one of both of which contains the parts to a vehicle.  The vehicle will then be assembled.  The person in distress may not assist in the vehicle’s assembly.  Hero and/or Sidekick will then leave the Neighborhood on the vehicle and proceed to relieve a person in distress, stop a crime, rescue a lost kitten, and do two good deeds of the team’s choosing.  The five tasks may be completed in any order.  Then the vehicle will be disassembled and replaced in the suitcase(s).  The person relieved from distress may assist in the disassembling of the vehicle.

The Spirit of the Problem is to create a scenario that includes the hero, sidekick, and a distressed person and to design and to construct a vehicle that will fit into one or two suitcases.  The team is to assemble its vehicle, drive it, turn it, stop it, and perform the specified tasks, the disassemble the vehicle.

The Competition
1. The team, suitcases, and props, etc. will be in the staging area.  When time begins it will be the team’s responsibility to complete the tasks.
2. Hero and sidekick will go to the neighborhood with their suitcases.
3. The vehicle will be assembled in the neighborhood.
4. When the tasks are completed, the vehicle will be returned to the neighborhood and will be disassembled.
5. If time runs out, the team must stop.

Scoring
1. The creativity of the vehicle 1 to 50 points                                                                          __________
2. The creativity of the characters and the scenario 1 to 25 points                                           __________
3. The appearance of the vehicle 1 to 15 points                                                                        __________
4. The creativity of the 1st good deed, 1 to 15 points (if completed)                                        __________
5. The creativity of the 2nd good deed, 1 to 15 points (if completed)                                       __________
6. The creativity of the distress and the relief of the distressed person. (1 to 15 points)          __________
7. The creativity of the hero and sidekick stopping a crime 1 to 15 points                              __________
8. The creativity of rescuing the lost kitten 1 to 10 points                                                        __________
9. Returning the kitten to the neighborhood 5 points                                                               __________
10. Under the cost limit; lower cost = higher score (Under $50= +5 points, under $40= +10 points, under $30=+15 points.)                                                                                                                        __________

Penalties
1. Any part(s) of the vehicle or task apparatus not inside the suitcase(s) at the start, -5 to -50 points.
                                                                                                                                                __________
2. Hero or sidekick leaves the vehicle or touches the floor outside the neighborhood (each offense) - 10 points.                                                                                                                                          __________
3. Floor contact points of vehicle go out of bounds (each offense), -10 points                      __________
4. Violation of the spirit of the problem (each offense), -5 to -100                                         __________
5. Outside assistance (each offense) -5 to -100                                                                       __________
6. Unsportsmanlike conduct (each offense) -5 to -25                                                              __________    **The entire vehicle must be contained in one or two closed suitcases. Each suitcase must have outside dimensions not exceeding 23" x 31" x 10" and may be made of any material.**
7. Each suitcase that exceeds any dimension by ½” or less, -25                                               __________   
8.  Each suitcase that exceeds any dimension by ½ “ or more, -100                                        __________
9. Damage to floor or premises, -5 to -100                                                                              __________
10. Distressed person, while being relieved, assists in assembling the vehicle or comes in contact with the floor outside the distressed person’s area, -25 pts                                                                             __________
11. Any vehicular parts outside the neighborhood during assembly or disassembly (each offense, -10 points) maximum= -20                                                                                                                        __________
12. Kitten touches floor between park and neighborhood (each offense), -10 pts.                  __________
13. Over cost limit, -5 to -50 points                                                                                         __________
Style (Elaboration of the problem solution)
1. The appearance of hero, 1-10 points                                                                                  __________
2. The appearance of sidekick, 1-10 points.                                                                            __________
3. Use of special effects, 1-10 points                                                                                      __________
4. Free choice, 1-10 points                                                                                                      __________
5. Overall effect, 1-10 points                                                                                                   __________

Judges name: __________________________                                                         TOTAL           __________

COMMENTS: ________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                               
Limitations
1. The time limit for the competition, including set-up, style, and performance, is 10 minutes.
2. The cost limit is $75, with Vanguard Youth providing $50 per team.  ($25 is allowed to be raised through approved methods.) The cost limit does not included new or used suitcases, or suitcases built by the team.  Additional points will be given for less money spent (Under $50= +5 points, under $40= +10 points, under $30=+15 points.)
3. The entire vehicle must be contained in one or two closed suitcases. Each suitcase must have outside dimensions not exceeding 23" x 31" x 10" and may be made of any material.
4. The vehicle must be totally enclosed in the suitcase(s) when the signal to begin is given. Then it must be assembled in the neighborhood, complete the tasks, return to the neighborhood, be disassembled and placed back into the suitcase(s).
5. The suitcase(s) may be part of the vehicle.  However, they must either be suitcases or resemble pieces of luggage.  Some suitcases have built-in wheels.  These wheels may not be used as the vehicle’s wheels.
6. Hero and/or sidekick must ride in or on the vehicle and may not leave the vehicle except in the Neighborhood. If Hero or sidekick touches the floor outside the Neighborhood, it is a penalty.  Hero and sidekick may return to the neighborhood as often as they wish.
7. Only one vehicle may be made.  Only Hero and/or sidekick and the kitten may ride the vehicle.  Hero and Sidekick must complete the tasks.
8. Participants may use any power source except moving the wheels directly by hand or pushing or pulling the vehicle by hand.  Vehicles may not be connected to anything stationary except an electrical supply.
9. The vehicle braking and steering systems may be hand operated.
10. Four/five team members, except the person in distress, may help assemble the vehicle.  All five/six  team members may help to disassemble the vehicle.
11. The vehicle must be assembled and disassembled in the Neighborhood.
12. The team’s interpretation and configuration of the kitten and the nature of the distressed person’s distress are of the team’s choosing.  The kitten may be portrayed by one of the five team members but no other live animals may be used.
13.  The distressed person and the kitten must be in position before their reliefs/rescues take place.  Once in position, the distressed person and the kitten must remain in their areas until relieved or rescued.  After the distressed person is relieved, he or she may leave the designated area and move anywhere.  When the kitten is rescued, it must be kept on the vehicle and must be returned with Hero and/or sidekick to the neighborhood.  This may be done at any time during the vehicle’s run.  The remaining two/three team members bay move in and out of bounds without penalty.
14. The floor contact points (usually wheels) of the vehicle must remain in bounds.
15. All devices or apparatus used to perform the tasks do not have to be returned to the neighborhood, but until they are used they must be carried on or attached to the vehicle or carried by Hero and/or sidekick.
16. During the performance of the tasks, Hero’s and sidekick’s body parts and devices used to perform the tasks may extend across the boundary lines without penalty, but the body parts may not touch the floor.
17. Before time begins, the team must present the judges with a paper containing a brief description of the crime, the two good deeds, the nature of the distress, and the identification of characters.
18. A team member may portray only one character.
19. Tools for vehicle assembly do not have to be contained in the suitcase(s).

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