A tool I have found very useful is a trophy for "Most Spectacular
Disaster". This allows some form of recognition for a child whose
feelings are otherwise devastated by a serious malfunction. It
also allows us to turn the situation into something more humorous
than depressing.
White Buffalo
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> Hello,
> The pinewood derby race schedule I posted
> http://members.aol.com/standcmr/ppngen.html
> well, we used it today with 98 cars registered at N. Missouri Section 2
> Pinewood Derby. The Pioneers had the most cars in their age division (28
> cars), our turnover worked great. What we did was start with the first six
> Straight Arrow cars then as soon as the their first six cars finished we were
> putting the Buckaroos first six cars on the track and so on up the age
> divisions over and over again until all heats were run for the age divisions.
> All the cars ran over six different heats racing against several other cars.
> With the lane brain, several helpers preparing and retrieving cars and good
> score judges we finished in two and half hours. The only problems we had was
> a few cars jumping track. This system seem to worked great not letting people
> know who was winning and keeping people interest in the pinewood derby until
> the end of all the races and best yet very few upset parents. I hope it helps
> all of you in your pinewood derbys if you use it.
>
> serving only one master... Jesus
> keith
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