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Brain Games 2024

ICS Student Council's fun and social competition consisting of a variety of interesting puzzles and games — free lunch, prizes, and exciting events included!

February 10

Student Center

Events

Blindfolded Coding

This pair programming competition is an ultimate test of your teamwork skills! One team member will be designated as the typer and blindfolded. Only the typer can touch the keyboard, so everyone else will need to verbally guide the programmer to solve some quick programming challenges.

Estimathon

In this test of your team's estimation skills,you'll work together to guess the answer to fermi questions, such as the number of taxis in NYC (for example, you could guess 10k-100k). You provide your answer as a range, and, if you're correct, the smaller your range the more points you get!

Bridge Building

Test your physical engineering prowess in this crafty event; Create a small bridge from basic materials to try to withstand the most weight!

Code Blocks

Code blocks is a fun scavenger hunt where you and your team will follow clues and solve small puzzles to earn small “blocks” of code. Piece them together to be the first to find all the components of a particular line of code that does something!

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