12.20.2005
Really important invention
So the Trib produces yet another stellar feature story about our youth...
Call me overanalytical (go ahead! everybody else does!), but I find it revealing that the Trib chose to profile the winner of the Rube Goldberg Award.
From my admittedly jaundiced view, this report of local schools' participation in the 21st Montana Science Olympiad focuses on an entry that exemplifies Great Falls: the more useless & complicated the idea, the more exciting it is to the 'in' crowd.
I wonder what the other students produced? I certainly hope the toilet paper dispenser wasn't the best they had to offer...or maybe it was the only project that the reporter found inspiring?
Call me overanalytical (go ahead! everybody else does!), but I find it revealing that the Trib chose to profile the winner of the Rube Goldberg Award.
From my admittedly jaundiced view, this report of local schools' participation in the 21st Montana Science Olympiad focuses on an entry that exemplifies Great Falls: the more useless & complicated the idea, the more exciting it is to the 'in' crowd.
I wonder what the other students produced? I certainly hope the toilet paper dispenser wasn't the best they had to offer...or maybe it was the only project that the reporter found inspiring?
// posted by SallyT @ 6:38 PM 
