Middle School Club

karaoke99

karaoke99

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So I teach middle school students, and I have been teaching some kids how to solve the 3x3x3 after school on Friday's for three weeks now. I have four students who can solve it with LBL without any notes, and another two students are nearly there.

My school is having a gathering in four weeks on a Friday from 4:00-6:00pm during which students can stay after classes to play Guitar Hero, DDR, and Karaoke Revolution, compete in a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, decorate their own cupcakes, get their faces painted, etc. So, I insisted on having a 3x3x3 competition. I'll be the official scrambler, and the winner will receive the Rubik's Cube cake from PimpThatSnack.com. Another teacher's sister is going to make it.

Good times!

Update: My LBL average is down to 58 seconds, though I am trying to get Fridrich F2L to become intuitive. Like you all care. It's like bragging that you wrote a program in BASIC that adds two inputted numbers together to a computer engineer. :)
 
Gosh, you're school sounds fun.... I want to establish my own club but I'm just not brave enough to take my idea to the administrators... most teachers wouldn't want to sponsor me, not after what some have caused.... (people messing with cubes in class.. shame on them)
 
I have a speedcubing club!

Simply called "Speedcubing Club"

We meet at my house on Saturday, it's not really school based. New members learn how to solve cubes while veterans have competitions and maybe learn how to solve big cubes if they don't already know how.

We have alot of Halo parties.
 
LOL, my mom teaches at college of willam and mary :)

The solution to finding people who solve the cube is: teach them!
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Yea, but everyone is just stupid and not willing to learn, i mean, not stupid but u know what i mean, and plus thats no fun it would take forever for them to get as good as me, (avr.40)
 
Lotsofsloths said:
LOL, my mom teaches at college of willam and mary :)
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I should have guessed - that's one of the common reasons why people wind up living in Williamsburg. My sister wrote a fantasy book that never got published (but I thought it was very good) that was set in Williamsburg - the protagonist was the son of a professor at William and Mary. It's like the book is about you! :)

Lotsofsloths said:
Yea, but everyone is just stupid and not willing to learn, i mean, not stupid but u know what i mean, and plus thats no fun it would take forever for them to get as good as me, (avr.40)
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You might be surprised. Some people can learn awfully fast, and they might not even be the people you expect. All you need to do is get someone really into it, and before you know it, they might be breaking 20 seconds! Also, it's interesting to try to figure out a good way to teach the cube - it's a whole new thing you can do with it.
 
You might be surprised. Some people can learn awfully fast, and they might not even be the people you expect. All you need to do is get someone really into it, and before you know it, they might be breaking 20 seconds! Also, it's interesting to try to figure out a good way to teach the cube - it's a whole new thing you can do with it.
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lol i think of solving the cube as getting somewhere.
1.the cross is finding out where u wanna go.
2.the f2l is packing up for the big trip.
3.the OLL is getting your map out and setting ur compass
4.the PLL is moving to ur destination, not exacully the best way of remembering it, but...it wroks for me.
 
I have a club at my school, it was first started by Darren Kwong (2 years ago, i think), now he's at Berkeley.

I'm the VP right now and the fastest at the school, our club name is Rubik's cubed. (Rubik's^3 is actually the name.)
 
Man that's so cool, maybe you could get the school to sponsor some speed stack timers and stuff.
 
I now have six confirmed students who can solve it, with two more who say they can (but will have to wait until Friday to compete and show off their skills).
 
at my school, i'm trying to get stackmats purchased, and i've started a ranking contest last friday avg of 5/7.

coincidentally, we also meet on fridays after school.
 
ExoCorsair said:
In my opinion, Fridays are pretty awful days to meet, since most people just want to get out of school for the weekend/Friday night games.
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we meet on fridays cuz the math club also meet on fridays, the majority is in both, so yea.. and still a lot of ppl show up despite the fact that it's friday.
 
ExoCorsair said:
In my opinion, Fridays are pretty awful days to meet, since most people just want to get out of school for the weekend/Friday night games.
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Only a true nerd would want to stay after school on Friday. Luckily, a lot of those nerds want to learn the Rubik's Cube. :D
 
Lotsofsloths said:
LOL, my mom teaches at college of willam and mary :)

The solution to finding people who solve the cube is: teach them!
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Yea, but everyone is just stupid and not willing to learn, i mean, not stupid but u know what i mean, and plus thats no fun it would take forever for them to get as good as me, (avr.40)
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if you taught everyone in the competition, you shouldn't be competing :P
 
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