::welcome to slow rock::

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Thought of sharing some joy with all of you. AHS Falcon Scouts got 3 GOLDS in the National Pioneering Competition!!! Events are logging, pioneering skills and catapult.

For logging, Kenan "steamrolled" the other competitors, nabbing a time of 22s, whilst the rest were half a minute behind. The objective was to chop a log into 2 using an axe. Haha. And Shih Ying, his partner, just had to stand and watch him chop his way to victory. He didn't even have to takeover!

The catapult event win is regarded by me as the funniest. Guppy was in charge, and due to some fault in the building of the catapult structure, its shot tend to go towards the left. Just as no one would have imagined, the waterbomb released by the catapult went into the crowd, and smacked into the back of this seemingly oblivious person. Of course, he made his displeasure known with some gestures, non-offensive ones though. The second shot was equally, or if not more comical. Waterbomb released, some nudging here and there in the crowd to warn other of impending danger, retreat, and poof! right into a bag forgotten by its owner in the midst of all the "chaos". Now for the third. Pull, nice cruise through the air, equally beautiful descend, and dud... After all the efforts by the crowd to scram, the waterbomb pulled off its final trick of the day to cap an amusing victory for the Falcons! We pulled our way to first place with a distance of 43.15m, way ahead of second place's 37.1m and third's 36.7m.

The pioneering skills team worried me the most. Not because they lacked the skills. In actual fact, I had quite a lot of confidence in their abilities. Rather, they were under the sweltering hot sun for the longest time(from 11am to 4.30pm), and most of them were dying due to the heat. Our water supply wasn't enough to sustain all the teams we sent in(5 in fact), hence, being in charge of logistics, i had to run up and down bishan park filling up water containers and buying water for them. Fortunately, i had junle to do this job with me. Haha. I spent the entire day getting rations for the troop, going from place to place doing so. And bishan park is no ordinary neighbourhood park. It was immense!

All the sufferings aside, I want to congratulate all participants for putting in so much time and effort in their preparation for that day, and thank all who turned up for giving your support in the many areas we needed help! Thank you!

A mini-catapult by another school(i find this design quite nice, but it couldn't shoot far)

A tower and bridge by other schools(we didn't participate in these 2 events)

Labels: scouts

Entered by platinum at 5:46 AM