GEC 2006

went for the global enterprise challenge yesterday n today. just came back. it was organised by SMU. the food was not bad. the air con was a bit too cold. i was allocated to the pico art team together with 5 other people from other schools. we had a bubbly n experienced mentor mr daniel chew. he had a lot of trick n IQ questions, and made the experience a very lively one.

the challenge question for this year was "after the challenge was announced yesterday, we had a really difficult time trying to come up with an idea coz we wanted one dat was original. maybe we tried too hard to "think out of the box", and we ended up with ideas like setting up fire fighting bases in indonesia to help put out forest fires lol. we also tried to come up with a improved catalytic converter. our idea was to further convert carbox dioxide into some other substances. then mr chew told us that we could give some bullshit about a special XYZ chemical dat has been developed for converting carbon dioxide lol.

den the next day, we saw this heel strike generator dat was being used by the US Army.
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/body_power_011128-1.html
http://www.stormingmedia.us/02/0204/A020414.html
so we thought of the idea of introducing heel strike generators in the normal shoes for sales to the public. by the time we decided on this idea and started developing on it, it was around 10+am... about 4hours away from the submission deadline. because of the lack of time, we gave a rather brief action plan and the figures for the possible monetary value of the benefits were all bull lol. and during the presentation, we fumbled a bit and couldnt finish our presentation within the 3minute time-limit. i was quite disappointed at dat time lol.

den after all the presentations, the organisers announced the winning n 1st runner-up teams. they said, "the 1st runner-up goes to the most creative team..." at dat time i had a premonition dat it was gonna be our team... and it was! lol i was so surprised at dat time. each of my team members got a $80 book voucher... not bad lol.

hmm.. in the end i think the biggest winner is SMU lol. its is really enterprising...(note: the participation fee is $130)