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Tau Beta Pi - Big Social #1 February 26th, 2006 1) Ice Breaker – Silent Line 2) Pancake Breakfast 3) Team Scrabble

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Upcoming Events! Mon. Feb. 27th: Grad School Panel (306 Soda) 6-8pm Tues. Feb. 28th: Bowling Night (Meet at HMC) 8-11pm

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Upcoming Events! Thurs. Mar. 2nd (Woz Lounge) Small Group Interviews 5:30-6:30pm General Meeting #1 6:30-8:00pm Board Game Night 8:00-10:0pm

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The 1st Annual Team Scrabble: Tau Beta Pi Style

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Rules - Scoring Players will divide up into 4 teams, which will play as one Scrabble player. Scoring of tiles is identical to regular Scrabble. (2X Word, 3X Letter, and others apply) Challenged words will be verified through Dictionary.com

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Rules - Scoring In addition to normal Scrabble words, Engineering-related names, words, and acronyms will also be considered correct. Ex: TBP, CE, PN (Junction), Stoke, Planck, Heisenberg, Newton, DNA, LED, SCSI, Decarboxylase, MATLAB.

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Rules - Letters Letters will not be given out unearned. (After all, we’re engineers) Teams must earn letters by performing multiple activities.

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Rules - Activities Activities are divided into three categories: TBP Trivia General Trivia Fun Stuff

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Rules - Activities TBP Trivia When was TBP founded, and where? What are the 16 positions in TBP? Which officers don’t know how to swim? What is meant by “alpha male” in TBP?

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Rules - Activities General Trivia Solve the given sudoku Name 50 countries Certain TBP officers are racing on a mountain road and are traveling at 22.4 m/s in both lanes when they see oncoming traffic. The car in the wrong lane skids to a stop in 2.55 s. Determine the skidding distance of the car (assume uniform acceleration).

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Rules - Activities Fun Stuff Catch a food item thrown from 4 feet away. Create a 6-man pyramid Eat 8 saltine crackers within 1 minute. Serenade an officer. (Hint: Paul)

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Rules – Collecting Letters Members of the team will approach an officer pair to perform an activity. Upon completion of an activity, officer pairs will give the team stickers with the earned letters written on them. Earned stickers may be used immediately.

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Rules – Placing Letters Every round, each team will have a 4 minute slot to place letters. Thus, every round (except for round 1) will have 4X4= 16 minutes. Even though teams are allowed to place letters only for 4 out of 16 minutes, they can collect letters during the entire round.

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Rules – Placing Letters During their assigned time slot, teams must send a representative to input letters on the master board before their turn ends. Those that fail to do so forfeit their turn. Teams that only partially affix their words to the master board will forfeit their turn. Letters will be removed from the board and returned.

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Rules - Setup Before the game begins, teams elect one candidate to come to the front. Each candidate representative will name as many people as possible from his or her team. Candidates who name the most people can decide the order of play.

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Rules - Setup Teams will begin the game with staggered starts. Team 1 will receive the activity packet first, and have four minutes to strategize and collect letters. After the first 4 minutes, team 2 will receive their packet, and team 1 will be able to place letters for 4 minutes.

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Rules – Setup Round 1

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Rules – Setup Rounds 2 - 7

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Rules – Endgame Play ends after 7 rounds, or when time is called. Fair warning before the last turn will be given. Winners will have the satisfaction of winning.