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Oct 22, 2015
To be honest, for this challenge, we fell on our faces. It started out the night before the challenge day when we started brainstorming about ideas for a small business that would make us money in only a couple hours. Some people were exhausted and ready to just think of some practical ideas, while others […]
Oct 21, 2015
Give it a good college try. That’s what we did today. Try. A lot. My group was given several challenges to complete during our visit at Western State Colorado University. Our challenges were to talk with professors, students, admissions, as well as sit in on lectures. A bonus challenge was to get a student to […]
Oct 14, 2015
I’m Lil. The past two days we did individual self designed challenges, and I challenged myself to write record and produce an EP and post it to Bandcamp. The first day was filled with a lot of procrastination, tears, pep talks, recording, deleting and rerecording. At the end of the day I had two very […]
Oct 10, 2015
Imagine, you are walking down a street in the south Bronx in NYC on a warm summer night. You hear yelling, turn around, and promptly a gun is shot. A bullet flies by your head. Then another. You are now deaf. Cochlear implants might give you an artificial, eerie representation of the sense you once […]
Oct 6, 2015
Our group’s first task today was to come up with a few questions about our surroundings. These questions weren’t your typical questions, though! These were questions of a mysterious sort; questions even the all-knowing GOOGLE couldn’t immediately answer. Try, right now, to think of a few questions yourself. It’s harder than you may think, isn’t […]
Oct 3, 2015
Finding your capacity for adaptation can be a challenging experience. Our group faced many obstacles these past few days, but we overcame them in an admirable way. On Thursday, we were tasked with designing our own two-day challenge, with little to no help from our facilitating staff member. Beginning with a decision about the decision […]
Sep 30, 2015
Our challenge was a little different this week, instead of the usual one day one challenge, we had two days to complete a larger project. Our project was a large scale art project, we decided to do a mural in the coyote commons. we began with a trip to the store, since paonia is very […]
Sep 26, 2015
We are all familiar with discomfort. For instance, sometimes we encounter situations in which we are stuck in an unfamiliar place, looking to fulfill that one need – the need for a bathroom. Today, our group took this very source of discomfort into account. After several discussions, and some interviewing of the citizens of Paonia […]