Originally Posted by cricket3
One of our teachers, an English teacher, actually, just posted a virtual speed cubing challenge to the high schoolers via their broadcast journalism news broadcast
What a coinkydink! Speedcubing seems to be one of the ‘nerd-ish’ activities which impresses most people. DS carried his speedcube everywhere for years and people would stare as he did his sub10 or one handed solves. (ETA: an advantage of speedcubing is that practice can be done entirely in otherwise wasted gaps of time such as commuting, waiting at the shops, accompanying parents on errands, so it’s a great boredom reliever and also doesn’t take up valuable time when the child should/could be doing necessary/important activities).

Their school’s PDH/PE dept posted an assignment on Fri requiring students to learn a new physical skill. DD12 decided she would learn to juggle and has been practising all weekend. She can now juggle three balls - thanks YouTube!

Last edited by Eagle Mum; 05/10/20 03:14 PM.