Lego Lockdown Lego pieces littered the tables, and the room buzzed with excitement as students scavenged for the appropriate shapes, sizes and colors. As time ran out at the Annual Lego Competition, Director of Student Activities Cindy Efinger called out to competitors, “Put your hands in the air!” Participants brought an abundance of energy, creativity and competitiveness to this SAB-organized event on Friday night. The format of the competition required groups of four (students and faculty children) to build a Lego structure according to a given theme in fifteen minutes. The themes were “exotic animals,” “wonders of the world” and “dream houses.” There were two winners for each of the three categories. The six winners, with models of a bird, a camel, the Taj Mahal, the Coliseum, the White House and a beach house, competed against each other in the grand finale. The topic for the final round? Favorite Disney movie. Rekha Auguste-Nelson ’09, Trisha Macrae ’09, Emma Goldstein ’09 and Louise Ireland ’09, who built a bird in the preliminary round, prevailed with a magnificent reconstruction of Cinderella, complete with pumpkin, stepsisters and a glass shoe upon a flight of stairs. “I’ve always really liked Legos,” said Ireland, “Plus I think all the guys we were competing against were pretty [upset] that we won.” Pulling in a close second was the frighteningly perfect design of the loveable Wall-E character made by Nick Dean ’10, Solon Harden ’12, Cooper Hurley, and Ian Hurley (children of Instructor in Mathematics Dale Hurley), who had advanced to the final with a model of the White House. Others were not to be outdone as the tables boasted impressive presentations of The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Finding Nemo and a table that combined several popular icons from various Disney movies. The night also hosted a Rubik’s Cube competition with Kellon Olosula ’11 ranking first with a time of 28 seconds. Winners of the Lego contest and the winner of the Rubik’s Cube competition each won an iTunes gift card worth 10 dollars. “I haven’t felt this good since I was in fifth grade,” said Ben Talarico ’11. The Lego Competition was an unexpected delight, not to be missed next year.
