Schools: 2014 Cultural Festival

Schools: 2014 Cultural Festival

This is a list of school, class, and club-made events to be presented at the upcoming 2014 Sister Schools Cultural Festival. Players are encouraged to add their own entries, in collaboration with their classmates and club members. Please use the wiki formatting shown in the example at the top of Infinity Institute, and have fun!

Infinity Institute

Low-Stakes Casino

Event Host: Infinity Institute 7th Grade Class

Event Description: The Infinity Institute seventh-graders have elected to turn their classroom into a luxuriously appointed casino of the type they've seen only on television and the silver screen. Dramatic velvet drapery in reds and blacks, tables stained to resemble mahogany, and the occasional beautiful, classmember-donated object d'arte or exceptional indoor plant combine to create an exotic and exciting ambiance. Members of the class, in appropriate attire, welcome visitors, explain games, deal cards, serve (strictly non-alcoholic) drinks, and "cash" people out -- but since the gambling chips can only be exchanged for chocolate, no cash is actually involved. On the other hand: the gambling chips can only be exchanged for chocolate!! Some dessert aficionados are playing the tables with a mix of enthusiasm and desperation as true to the feeling of Las Vegas as anything could be.

Katamari Soccer

Event Host: Infinity Institute Soccer Club

Event Description: Infinity's soccer club has decided to hold a special exhibition match at the soccer field - or rather, a series of short soccer games open for anyone to join. There's always at least a couple of players on hand to give the teams some direction, or just to show off for an audience - but they're perfectly willing to step aside for interested individuals. There's just one catch to this game - the soccer ball is considerably larger than usual. Lightweight, inflated but durable, it towers over most players - several players getting into things by whistling the theme to a certain game about rolling things up. Other than the absurd size of the ball (and goals), normal rules apply - including not being allowed to touch the ball with your hands. The net result is often a flip of the usual norm for soccer players - at Infinity's cultural festival, ball chases you!

Time Trial Tower

Event Host: Infinity Institute 12th Grade Class

Event Description: Members of Infinity's twelfth-graders have commandeered one of the lesser-used staircases for their project, expanding beyond the confines of the classroom. It's a race, for anyone who wishes to challenge it - starting at their classroom, ascend the staircase to reach the finish the fastest. Of course, a simple sprint up stairs would be boring - even if that was the original suggestion - and so the class has pooled their efforts to spice things up. At predetermined intervals along the way, unknown obstacles will surface to hinder the challenger. Perhaps a door bars the racer's path, opening only when a riddle is solved! Perhaps there's a set of tires that must be navigated as a feat of athletics. Perhaps there's a pie-eating contest as a requirement to proceed. Or maybe the challenger must defeat the (papier-mâché) dragon! It's never the same race twice - and the posted results include a list of what was faced along the way. How quickly can you reach the top - and what will you face along the way?

Game Makers Demo

Event Host: Infinity Institute Computer Club

Event Description: The computer club has set up a number of workstations with different game-making software, and the club's members are coaching visitors who want to try and put together a computer game of their very own. Of course, the time available won't allow for anything too big or complicated - but if you find you have a knack for game design, you can always take your starting project home with you, and get the development software for yourself. Further, the person whose project is the favorite among the club's members at festival's end will even receive a copy of whatever game-making package they were working with. Nothing to lose (except time), so why not try your hand? Even the great game designers had to start somewhere ...

Hands-On Archery Demo

Event Host: Infinity Institute Archery Team

Event Description: Have you ever wanted to see how well you can do at kyuudou, the art of traditional Japanese archery, but you couldn't afford to buy the equipment for it? Well, now's your chance! The members of the Infinity archery team have opened their dojo and practice range to visitors - at least so long as you obey the ground rules: leave your shoes outside, no running, and absolutely do not venture out onto the range itself unless somebody announces the all-clear first. No equipment? No problem; the team members have a stock of "loaner" equipment, bows included, which should be adequate for novices trying to get a feel for the art of archery.

Ohtori Academy

Twisted Mirror Funhouse

Event Host: Ohtori Academy Fashion Club

Event Description: A common circus attraction is a funhouse of twisted mirrors, meant to show warped reflections. The Fashion Club liked this idea, but had an idea for an alternate twist; having prepared thousands of outfits and arranged for makeup artists and actors both, they've created a funhouse of twisted reflections. Rather than simple distorted silver, though, their mirrors are windows - with doppelgangers of the visitors in a variety of outfits from every style and period imaginable. Walk into the hall, and see your reflection as you might have been in a dozen other eras! (Due to logistics, a limited number of people are allowed in at a time.)

The Parade of the Blade

Event Host: Ohtori Academy Fencing Club

Event Description: Thrilling feats of derring do with sword, knife, and other blades are a staple of the circus. Ohtori's prestigious fencing club had a lengthy discussion on just what blade sport to focus upon - and has settled, instead, upon everything. A gorgeous pavilion keeps the summery sun at bay while members of the fencing club demonstrate their prowess with exhibition matches, feats of speed ("How many coins can sempai catch on her blade, before a single one hits the ground?") and, for the brave of heart, a knife-throwing act... where YOU are the target. (Apples for the top of the head are available upon request.)

Juuban Public School

Going Green

Event Host: Juuban Science Club

Event Description: A scale model of the Juuban Public Schools has been set up in the science lab, complete with tiny pipes and wiring -- water and power! Remarkably, it is all provided by sustainable means, some of them very clever. A wind-powered well features prominently, while a bank of actual solar panels has been produced in full-scale form and are hanging out of the windows, trying to catch a few rays. There are a few other enjoyable gadgets, prominent among them the watermill harnessed to power a candy-making machine, and posters all around the room report on various sustainable energy opportunities, even providing potential budgets for how Juuban could get off the grid within the next five years.