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Ideas for High School Computer Club Activities?
angryLNX asks: "This year, my high school's computer club started running out of project ideas and fun things to do as a club. Over the years, we have done the website, the Linux box and the TV announcement system. Does anyone have any ideas for projects or activities which would be worthwhile? Any good or bad experiences with certain high school computer clubs? Since we're in Connecticut, maybe it would be fun to attend a certain conference in New York?"
... hacking into the system and changing the grades for those who can cough up the dough?
"Derp de derp."
When I was in high school, the main activities of the Computer Club were probably best categorized as "Offsite Archival Preservation."
Better make that 6 holes after ol' Poindexter decided to put it in the battle bots arena against Die Sector.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
If you all use PCs, then make the switch to Macs. If you use Macs, then make the switch to PCs. Or switch to something else like Linux, BeOS, or OS/2 and record the sociological effects on the members of your club. Are they happy? Sad? Are any of the members expressing rage while trying to get USB to work in a certain Linux distro across different logic board types?
Could make an interesting doctoral thesis for that rare Anthropology/Computer Science double-major out there.
Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.
Maybe you could upgrade your site so it'll survive a slashdotting?
Then high school kids should not be provided with the tools to create such a simulator, if it's so dangerous. Game publishers should be sued for including map editors with their games.
It should also be illegal to create a game map based on any actual structure. Because high school kids are too stupid to recognize the difference between games and reality. And it's better for them to sit around doing nothing, alone, because their club dissolved after having nothing to do.
Any student caught looking too hard at the structure of the school itself, should be approached and placed in a rehabilitation program. Drawing a map of the school on a piece of notebook paper should result in two weeks suspension. School officials must make random house calls to observe students' living areas and ensure no maps or plans are being constructed.
Students should be blindfolded between rooms, and room locations switched on a regular basis, so that student will no longer know the layout of the school by heart. An added precaution would be the handcuffing of all students at the door, and chained manacles at each desk with just enough chain to access their desk area. Any resisting students can be placed on permanent sedation.
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Yes, I myself am in this club, and frankly, we have nothing to do. Our advisor himself is a complete idiot who feels the need to use key phrases and buzzwords to make up for what he doesn't understand. I'm not even sure why he's the advisor at all. What we need is a good project that would confuse him and keep him quiet, while we just go about doing it.
> Does anyone have any ideas for projects or activities which would be worthwhile?
Change the name of the club, hide the computers away, clean up the place, and invite some girls over.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade