Thank gord it's over. Another hurdle. Many more to come as spouse and I were discussing tonight. I worry that our son is not disciplined enough to keep his grades up and that if he goes away to college at age 17 he'll really be in a one-down position of having to take on a LOT of responsibility--and will he be able to to cut it? This is early I know to be fretting as Chris is only 15 and in the next couple of years with any luck he'll mature and get his priorities in line and his ambitions focused. I wonder how many of my own mistakes I'm using as a point of reference here?
Families and their repeating patterns!
The Expo was big fun. The kids are amazingly smart, worked incredibly hard, and it's very obvious that they will have a successful career by any measure. One guy that I've been hearing a lot about is a friend of my son's, Ray Li, who invented a board game and is now marketing it. A sophomore. Just blows my mind. I was too busy chatting up the kids about their projects to get many photos but here are a few including the project that seemed most popular:
"Creating a Guitar~ Guitar-Hero Style" ~
A real guitar engineered to play Guitar Hero II.
Created by Adam Grainawi, Palatine High School
"Lineage" created and marketed by Ray Li~
Spouse chats up Ray.
I was just flabbergasted that this guy created a board game and he's selling it! My son helped him promote Lineage by playing it at lunch time and by participating in a tournament that he won. Ray gave Chris a $10 gift certificate good towards purchase of the game. :D
And last but not least, a "fearsome weapon" somewhat like a crossbow, used by the Greeks, Romans, and in Medieval times, replicated with safety and other modifications by my son and his "mentor."
Chris explains The Ballista~
He had to do the demo outside which I think he quite enjoyed. Can't be flinging around stuff from a "fearsome weapon" inside school. :D
Ballista: Answering q's from a teacher~
I think Palatine High School who hosted this year, did a very nice job with the design of the program and of hosting the show. I liked this year's layout of the host high school. Was easy to get from Point A to Point B.
Chris's display card has the same design as the entire front of the program, a bound, thick-ish catalog about the kids from the 5 high school's gifted program's 2-year Critical Thinking program and their projects.
My keepsake from the show.~
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