No Math....No Ice Cream

So we are running an informal "Robot Camp" on Tuesdays this summer.  It is the high school FIRST team members and coaches and about 15 middle school "recruits".  Lots is getting done, the future looks promising.

Of course in the summer and at that age attention spans have limits so a snack break at some point is needed.  This week I decided they had to earn it.  

I let them have carte blanch on how they solved this problem.  One of the CAD trainees took it on.  He did a 3D model of the inside of the ice cream scoop, calculating the volume it would hold*.  This plus a simple calculation of how much ice cream was in the bucket - maybe math involved but I allow creative cheating such as reading the product info - and he worked out how much ice cream per capita.

This granted him the status of Snack Captain.  Here he and another CAD student issue the rations of chocolate ice cream.

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* The world being an odd place I suppose somebody, somewhere, some time has already "modeled" a scoop of ice cream.  But maybe not....this could be a first for a FIRST student.