Show t College fj Stores Store's J floppy contest Elise Bassett Campus Reporter Floppy discs are so outdated that some people dont don't even know what they are So when the employees of The Salt Lake Community College College Store found floppy discs in stock they asked themselves what can we do with floppy discs And BAM Get Creative with Technology was born bom We started out with this idea to have a floppy disc building contest explained Computer Sales Manager Susan White After that different venders got involved offering different prizes They ended up with six contests for an all day event Floppy Disc Building contest Design a poster contest a Smash Brothers Brother's Tournament Name That Tune Guess the Weight and Ugliest Mouse contest Each event offered prizes that ranged from a new mouse to a DS On Tuesday September 22 at the Redwood Taylorsville College Store the contests commenced The floppy disc contest was with most creative thing made floppy discs Six t teams ams showed up and even with some technical difficulties including a melted glue gun six creations were made a game boy a chair a computer case and belt shirt and nd skirt a church and a chandelier When it was time for the judging there was some last minute finishing touches being put on to the projects Judging these masterpieces wasn't that easy The judges said all of them were really close clos to winning said Chair team member Jarrett Hansen I had more fun just making the floppy disc project t. t The chandelier was declared the winner Each team member received an The poster-making poster contest was for six teams to competing to design the best advertising poster for the College Store This contest almost blew up They all showed up in the a afternoon and we didn't have enough computers said White In the end th they y ended I h A. A L 4 rat f Photo by David id Horne Home The chandelier was declared the winner in the floppy disc contest Each team member received an up with six posters Each member of the winning whining team got a Premium The Smash Brothers Brother's Tournament was the only contest that started right on schedule It started promptly at said White it was over in about an hour we had hoped it would go for about 4 hours hour The rhe winner received a DS Name That Tune was a success Contenders would come in pick their genre and would be played a tune and would have to name it Winners received Headphones 70 60 headphones were handed out during that tha game For another contest the College store filled a backpack with assorted Technology products Contenders came jp and guessed the weight of the th backpack The winner got th the backpack and everything in it i Finally Bring your ugliest mouse Originally this was a contest for who had the ugliest mouse The winner was wa going to get a new one But on Tuesday everyone who brought a mouse got a mouse So was the event a success People defiantly think the book bookstores bookstore's bookstores bookstore's bookstores bookstore's stores store's cool now said Jarrett but I think their business will b bethe be bethe the same |