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Today same of my housemates and I competed in the Google Games, a series of nerdy competitions run by Google as a semi-recruiting event. It was a lot of fun. Nineteen teams of 5 from MIT, Harvard, Olin, and Brown competed in Geek Trivia, Lego Building, Puzzles, and Wii athletics. Epsilon Theta fielded two teams, the Deducktors and my team, Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century. My team placed 2nd overall, but, more importantly, we were 1st in the "Google Games minus Wii" part of the competition. (We tied for 2nd in Geek Trivia, came in 1st in Lego Building with an awesome structure, and placed 3rd in Puzzles, but came in 6th in the Wii games.) The Lego building and puzzle games were particularly fun. I came up with the name Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century and actually submitted the registration for that team, so I was nominally the team captain, and I feel correspondingly proud of our performance.
Incidentally, here's an awesome presentation (via Grant McCracken) on how to teach mathematics. I expect that the content is familiar to most of my readers who would care about such a topic, but the presentation is excellent. It's a delightful merger of form and content. (If you're curious, the presentation is a demo for a piece of software called Perzi.)
Incidentally, here's an awesome presentation (via Grant McCracken) on how to teach mathematics. I expect that the content is familiar to most of my readers who would care about such a topic, but the presentation is excellent. It's a delightful merger of form and content. (If you're curious, the presentation is a demo for a piece of software called Perzi.)