I'm Preparing A Cube Club At My School

[V-te]

Hello,
I'm preparing a Rubik's Cube Club in my school and need some help/ suggestions.

My teacher ordered 72 cubes and will probably arrive next week.
We are planning to teach people how to solve the cube
People that already know will be taught CFOP, or other methods based on what they prefer.

We will be doing some basic cube theory and will be explaining notation to new cubers.

I'm making flyers, but don't really know what to put in them to attract interest.
I need a catchy slogan too, and a great image that will catch people's attention.
I'm also worried about the first day. What do we do?
What else do you think we should teach?


We'll have a school competition in February, and a District-wide competition in April.

 

[4Chan]

My god, 72 cubes?
What type?

I wish I could go to your school. o_o

 

[IamWEB]

Who else knows about this at your school?
You're not preparing all of this yourself are you (other than your teacher ordering the cubes).

Make a powerpoint for the first day maybe? Show 1 beginner's solve and several pro speedcuber's solves. Some competition solves too... Although our definitions are different, try as hard as you can to NOT make the powerpoint (if you make on) generic, lame or corny. That just won't hold interest for new people, but rather make them think of is as a joke, something 'nerdy' or just not the right thing for them.

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

I wanna transfer!

 

[V-te]

@ Cubes: They're Rubik's Brand, so it's nothing big hardware wise.

@ IamWEB: My friends who can cube know this (about 6). Preparing a powerpoint would be a good idea.I'll talk to my teacher about it. We're planning to inform people by putting up flyers. Also, I honestly don't think a lot of people will join at first because of the thought that you need patience/be smart at math stereotype, and I think that if they are willing to learn, they will take it seriously.
I've already had people tell me they won't go if there is no food. I told them not to. We will only take serious people who really want to learn. I think though, that as time goes on, more and more people will want to join. So that is handled.

Any catchy slogan for the flyers?

 

[IamWEB]

"THE CLUB WHERE IT'S OK TO SAY F U"

"YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE SMART FOR PEOPLE TO THINK YOU ARE!"

"LEARN IT. TURN IT. SOLVE IT."

"SOLVE THE MYSTERY AND THE DAYS OF CONFUSION ARE HISTORY!"

Not all of those are serious, of course. That's all I could think of for now.

 

[StachuK1992]

WHAT!
THIS IS MADNESS!!!

72 cubes for a club?
How big is your school?
wtf?

 

[V-te]

WHAT!
THIS IS MADNESS!!!

72 cubes for a club?
How big is your school?
wtf?

We're not really that big. The whole school is about 2,500 people (est)
and are expecting at least 40 people at most (which is unlikely). We are going to do lunchtime competitions so people can see speedcubing in action, and hopefully be interested themselves.

 

[StachuK1992]

WHAT!
THIS IS MADNESS!!!

72 cubes for a club?
How big is your school?
wtf?

We're not really that big. The whole school is about 2,500 people (est)
and are expecting at least 40 people at most (which is unlikely). We are going to do lunchtime competitions so people can see speedcubing in action, and hopefully be interested themselves.

Is cubing a REALLY big thing at your school?
Like, at my school, I probably have 40 kids that can solve one, but only 5 of them are willing to give up time to go to an actual cube on a weekly basis.

 

[Cyrus C.]

. The whole school is about 2,500 people

Holy cheesy ham!!!

My school is about 200 people!

 

[miniGOINGS]

. The whole school is about 2,500 people

Holy cheesy ham!!!

My school is about 200 people!

Mine is about 3,000 for 3 grades. That's 1,000 per grade. Out of your 72 storeboughts, I hope you get at least one godly out of the box.

 

[Cyrus C.]

. The whole school is about 2,500 people

Holy cheesy ham!!!

My school is about 200 people!

Mine is about 3,000 for 3 grades. That's 1,000 per grade. Out of your 72 storeboughts, I hope you get at least one godly out of the box.

Jeez louise

 

[miniGOINGS]

Mine is about 3,000 for 3 grades. That's 1,000 per grade. Out of your 72 storeboughts, I hope you get at least one godly out of the box.

Jeez louise[/QUOTE]

OOOPPS. I just checked Wikipedia and it turns out it's only about 1,200 people. Nevermind.

 

[V-te]

WHAT!
THIS IS MADNESS!!!

72 cubes for a club?
How big is your school?
wtf?

We're not really that big. The whole school is about 2,500 people (est)
and are expecting at least 40 people at most (which is unlikely). We are going to do lunchtime competitions so people can see speedcubing in action, and hopefully be interested themselves.

Is cubing a REALLY big thing at your school?
Like, at my school, I probably have 40 kids that can solve one, but only 5 of them are willing to give up time to go to an actual cube on a weekly basis.

Well it's not really big, but it's starting to. There's a lot people that I don't know that probably know how to solve one. I found out 2 weeks ago that this girl that I've known since the beginning of the year knew how to solve one (and even has a 4x4 at home). So there's a lot of people we don't know about . There's also already a club at another school in the district and we're going to be having competitions against them.

 

[Ethan]

lucky, my teachers always tell me to put my cube away in class...
I wonder if any teacher at my school can solve one. My school is like 1,200 people I'm pretty sure. Hmm...hopefully I can get something started.

 

[daniel0731ex]

you guys should've ordered type d or dianshengs, they are much cheaper (and better) than storeboughts (both out of box and lubed)

 

[V-te]

lucky, my teachers always tell me to put my cube away in class...
I wonder if any teacher at my school can solve one. My school is like 1,200 people I'm pretty sure. Hmm...hopefully I can get something started.

Mine do too. Except for my French teacher who thinks I have ADHD or Schizo and I need to play with it so I don't move around. I'm pretty sure one of your math teachers can do it. Just go around and ask. The advantage of having a cube club is that they won't be able to ban cubes at school.

I've come up with some lame slogan options.

"Be a Trojan (school mascot) Cuber"
"The more you play with it, the more you'll like it."
"No brains needed"
"Come Cube with the Trojan Cubers"

Idk I'm not really that creative.

you guys should've ordered type d or dianshengs, they are much cheaper (and better) than storeboughts (both out of box and lubed)

We're using school funds, so we had to order from rubiks.com.

 

[miniGOINGS]

...my French teacher who thinks I have ADHD or Schizo...

*Ahem*

 

[cuberman0312]

my friend held a cubing club last year, it was fun, only like 9 ppl joined though.

 

[miniGOINGS]

Hey, at the end, I should fly down to Cali and be a guest at your Cube Club!