Happy Winner of Free Catching Fire Movie Tickets

Congrats to Alex B. who won two tickets for being the best
estimator in a tough contest !

Just when you think the day couldn't get any better, (Yay, for Thanksgiving Holidays), you become the lucky winner of a Cinemark gift card to go to a really hot movie!
By the looks of the Media Center Counting Board, most students grossly underestimated how many matches were really in the fish bowl. Our winner was within 271 matches of the total of 2650.

Come see how you did on the counting board,
right outside Miss Mayne's office.

Stay tuned for more movie ticket contests in the future; we like to promote reading by giving away tickets based on books.

MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR !

CATCHING FIRE: Win Tickets for Two!

THE WORD IS OUT, CATCHING FIRE IS HOT !

Wow! That's alot of matches, and some of them are in books.

I spoke with someone this morning who attended an early release of CATCHING FIRE, the movie, and she was very impressed with what she saw. Had she read the book, of course. Do we have the book in the Media Center, of course!

 Come to the Media Center and make your best guess about how many matches are in the fishbowl, sign up and put your guess in the Hunger Games bag, and you may be a winner!
You are allowed one guess.  (Scroll down, there's more).

Both guys and girls are very interested in this series, and though the main character is female, it is far from a chick flick. Oh, and did I say, these are IMAX tickets! The contest will be closed by the end of Monday 2:15 and the winner announced the next day at lunch. The tickets are in gift card form so you can go when you want; the time is not designated.

It's In the Bag

HUNGER GAMES, CATCHING FIRE TICKET CONTEST

ACTIVE NOW ! COME MAKE YOUR BEST GUESS NOW !

TICKETS FOR TWO, BE LUCKY,
 BE HAPPY !

MACGYVER MEETING #2: Paracord Fast Ropes

He learns paracord is tangle prone!

Was MacGyver OCD? Not hardly, but he did respect order. He always had duct tape and a Swiss Army Knife neatly tucked away to get out of any tricky situation. It would kind of ruin his flow and timing if he didn't know where everything was for immediate use. I'll bet he had that pin he used to stop a bomb detonator stuck in the tweezer hole of his Swiss Army Knife. He knew just where it was. He would have loved paracord ; ten bucks to the kid who finds a MacGyver episode or movie with proof he used paracord way back when.

Figure eights on your fingers make it happen

It's the Japanese Samurai who made an art of winding up and quickly whipping out a strong, thin cord as a means of prisoner restraint. They stored the cord up their sleeves as a bundled fast rope or around the sheaths of their Samuri swords.

As far as the MacGyver club members are concerned it is a great way to store paracord then deploy it without knots to work on projects. Other people like paracord for a number of reasons, but tangled paracord can be a bummer.

They most assuredly are magic, come see!

The anchor knot in the cord is the newest innovation in the fast rope. Pull the cord bundle by the knot as fast as you can and it's a done deal, you're ready to create!

MACGYVER CLUB MTG #1 DUCT TAPE SUPER SKILLS

MACGYVER CLUB MEETING A SUCCESS !

The world through the eye of a ductigamist. 

Hey everyone, there's more skill to ductigami than meets the eye! In our first meeting we learned how to make flat duct taped sheets that can be turned into 3D wallets. No one finished because they decided they already wanted to depart from the pattern provided by the book Ductigami: The Art of the Tape by Joe Wilson. Some members wanted secret chambers in their wallet, some coin holders, others side pockets.We also talked about the mission and goals of the club and what direction the members want to take it. More discussion on that later. (See MacGyver Club tab on this blog site.)

Not as easy as it looks; this stuff is sticky!

Club members decided it would better to meet after school on Thursdays at 2:30. The reason we meet after school is to have more time than a short lunch period to work on projects. There is no charge to join; it's never too late to catch up with projects. Our members are going to become expert at this skill and many others that will help us to think outside the box and problem solve all kinds of quirky issues in real life. We are also connecting these skills to books we are reading. Next: Paracording - - -  but that will be awhile yet. Contact Steve Song for further information.

A wallet waiting to be born :)