Competition club challenges kids

Imagine walking through the halls of the school and you look into a classroom to see students recreating the Taj Mahal with marshmallows and toothpicks.  

That was just one of many challenges hosted by the Competition Club, a club about, well, competition obviously. Every week the club hosts a fun short game during Thursday lunch in room 915.

“We’ve got a variety of games every week,” said club President Wee Lee. “We got trivia, improv, art, cards, and that one challenge where we had to destroy the 21st letter of the alphabet.”

To give you an idea of how these challenges work, the club’s most recent challenge was “Anagram Artists.” 

First, each member was randomly given a historical painting to draw. But, the twist was that the members will have to put random features into their drawing like a basketball or the horrors of war. These add ons appeared as scrambled words, where the first person to unscramble it can choose to give the feature to another person’s drawing or keep it for themselves.

The challenge was very fun. It was quite a fun dynamic when you had to choose between keeping skateboarding, or hoping you could get something easier later.  Someone even drew a very buff Napoleon crossing the Swiss Alps with laser eyes. 

Challenges are made mainly by officers and normally start by seeing or thinking of a funny idea and morphing it into a challenge. Challenges take a lot of inspiration from Battle for Dream Island and DougDoug.

Over the course of the year, they have an ongoing leaderboard which tallies up the points earned by challenges. At the end of the year, every kid will get a T-shirt corresponding to their ranking, with a custom design of increasing intensity the better you did.