Maryland Creative Problem Solvers
Instant Challenge Exchange
Tiny Tools
This is a hands-on challenge.
The only materials are your imagination.
The Scene:
Last week scientists announced that they had invented some tiny
tweezers.
These tweezers used electricity to grasp molecules in a world where a
human hair was the size of a redwood tree.
It allows scientists to build tiny three-dimensional structures for
the first time.
The Challenge:
Your task is to come up with a skit in which you use a tiny tool to do
some work in a tiny world.
This world is the size such that a human hair could be the size of
string, a spool of thread would be a stool for you to sit on.
Directions:
You must invent a tool in your imaginations, describe what it is made of,
and show how it makes certain jobs in your tiny world easier or even
possible.
You will present this, without speaking, in a skit that will last two
minutes.
You have ten minutes to create your skit.
Scoring:
20 points for the story's beginning, middle, and end
20 points for presenting all elements of the skit
20 points for creativity
40 points for teamwork