Tournament of Minds

Tournament of Minds, or TOM, is this competetion that I am entering at the monent. It's about team work and creativity and acting and creativity and singing and creativity . . . did I mention creativity?

You are working in a team of between five and seven people (my team has six members) and you have six weeks to come up with a creative solution to a problem. This year's problem is very open-ended. Here are the basics.

All the books in the world have dissapeared. Therefore stories will have to be passed on in other ways. Your team must -

Determine why and how the books have dissapeared.
Tell a meaningful story in a creative way.
Ensure that your story contains complex character relationships.

It is a vey open-ended problem. And its tons of fun working on it. We have four more weeks to go and we're progressing very well. My team consists of me, Jacqui and Hayley; aswell as three grade 7s - Georgina, Maddie and Tayla. So far our solution goes something like this-

It is 2063 and there is an election comming up. The economic situation is much like the economic situation Australia was 8 to 12 months ago. The opposition is prommising to hand out money, like Kevin Rudd has been. So the government decides to destroy all the books, therefore destroying the evidence that the opposition's plan will work. But, of corse, the government can't just destroy all the books in the world for no reason. They decided that books cause...lukemia! The government scientist complains that they have already found the cause for Lukimia, but the Prime Minister doesn't listen. He just decides that Lukemia would make a very good cover-up for his sinister mission.

And thats how/why the books have vanished. I'll write more later, but for now I gotta go.