Write It Do It B/C

[personasaurus rex]

To all who participated at nationals: what was the material you were given?

[Gemma W]

B was a bunch of random stuff; a rubber glove, a plastic cup, index cards, pipe cleaners, safety pins, etc.

[Phenylethylamine]

To all who participated at nationals: what was the material you were given?

I didn't actually participate myself, but from my team's WIDI competitors, apparently C was a mixture of K'nex and random materials (e.g., bendy straws, index cards, etc).

[googlyfrog]

The WIDI was hard to write in the time given (B Div), and I ended up rushing a lot of things I shouldn't have. But basically it was just random junk like a cup, binder clip, domino, index cards, paperclip, toilet paper roll, weird hook thing, rubber glove, rubber band, pipe cleaner, and a ribbon which was VERY hard to describe. It was twisted and looped and knotted and I had no clue how to describe it.

[Gemma W]

I finished just before time was called. I think it was a good model, because it provided variation so there wouldn't be ties. The ribbon wasn't too bad, although it was somewhat difficult and you needed to be specific. The only main problem was that it was difficult to see some parts of the structure. Also, there was only one Popsicle stick in the structure, but builders got two different sizes, so unless you specified the size they wouldn't know. There is nothing wrong about it, it was just kind of annoying, especially because I thought about specifying but didn't.

[haverstall]

I didn't like the build at nats, because it was a race build. My partner and I mainly prepared for this event by describing hard builds, so we shot for accuracy rather than speed. I guess it's as much our fault, for not preparing adequately.

[Gemma W]

I don't know, I do the writing not the building, but I guess it depends on how much description the writer includes. The most efficient would be the most information in the fewest words, to make it faster to read. If you can get it concise but descriptive, then you should be all set. This is similar to the ideas discussed on the wiki and earlier in the thread. But it's true that it was a bit of a struggle to finish writing on time; my hand felt like it was going to fall off by the end. I only used one page double sided though.

[lucwilder42]

Division c was mostly knex, a few Tinkertoy wheels, a bouncy ball, a bendy straw, a foam rectangle and a paperclip. Looked kinda like a car or medieval catapult on wheels. Pretty cool structure overall, much better than regionals and state

[Gemma W]

Write it do it is an event pretty much every year, so that's at least one event that will still be useful next year. It's a good event.

[personasaurus rex]

Write it do it is an event pretty much every year, so that's at least one event that will still be useful next year. It's a good event.

Congratulations, you are probably the first person I have ever heard say that. The usual general consensus of WIDI is "wtf this event sucks why is it here it's so unpredictable and hard to prepare for."