Write it Do it

[Pleiades]

Do you guys like pen or pencil better? If given the option, I think that pen is better because it's easy to write fast with and it doesnt break. At invites a week ago, the person I had write actually broke her pencil half way through so she had to stick the little led triangle back into the pencil and write very lightly and slowly.

[haven chuck]

They wouldn't give her a new pencil?!

[jazzy009]

wow. that sounds terrible. for me, i go with the four color bullet pen. those things are amazing. plus, sometimes i like to write in red instead of blue...just depends how i feel that day

[Pleiades]

I dont know if they offered her a pencil or if they even noticed. The meeting after states the two people were all sad because they think they failed miserably so I had to identify with them what went wrong so i started talking with the writer and she said how her pencil broke half way through and she had to write the rest with a broken pencil. She didnt mention if they noticed or if they offered a pencil. I would think they would have but i dont know.

[binary010101]

wow. that sounds terrible. for me, i go with the four color bullet pen. those things are amazing. plus, sometimes i like to write in red instead of blue...just depends how i feel that day

You probably could use it to color code the instructions, though that might get you DQd.

[haven chuck]

Is it in the rules that you bring your own writing instrument or do they give it to you?

[binary010101]

It doesn't say. I'd bring one with me though, since that's the way it is with most events.

[sweetcoop]

i would say use a pen and make sure that you have one with u instead of assumeing u can borrow one

[jazzy009]

yeah i dont use multiple colors. i just use which ever one i feel like using that day. plus its good to have backups (the 3 other pens in that nifty pen)

[Pleiades]

Right now i'm reading over my writer's directions to make sure she's not doing anything illegal and i have a few questions. I know they may vary depending upon the event supervisor. There's a k'nex piece that looks exactly like an L so would it be legal to describe the piece saying: "4 purple looks like "L". The only reason i'm questioning this one is because even though it's a letter, it may seem like a picture. Still with k'nex, can you say "green piece coming out of 4 [hole]" or would that be a code and therefore illegal? If she said "attach a L-purple" L would already have to have been defined, right?
I know that nothing's official unless it's on soinc.org but what do you think about these?