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Tuesday March 17th: Irish Heritage Day and Rube Goldberg device

Celebrating Irish Heritage through potato guns, plus construction (outside) of a messy Rube Goldberg device.

6:30 pm at Tina's house, directions via email. We need people to bring a potato gun (Dennis?), potatoes, and a target. For the Rube Goldberg device, we need people to bring ideas of what useless/useful thing we want it to accomplish, plus all sorts of interesting things to incorporate into it. Snack food contributions and lanterns would also be good.

Name	# of self/family/friends	Idea for RG	RG supplies	Potato gun supplies	Food/lanterns
Tina Wood	2	Fire the potato gun	??	??	Carrots, pumpernickle bread, spinach dip
Dennis DeLorme	2	x	x	potato gun
Tim M	1	x	Rope, heavy junk, pvc pipe, vice bench, duct tape	potatoes	chips&dip
Your name here	x	x	x	potato target	x
Aaron Albertson	1	I expect inspiration to strike when all materials are assembled	diet Coke and Mentos + nozzle	x	umm... Still thinking...
Will Schmidt	2 (?)	waiting for that inspirational moment before deciding	x	x	lantern/spotlight
Kevin Arhelger	3	hmmm, I'll see what I can find...	x	x	girl scout cookies
Luka B	x	x	x	x	x
Your name here	x	x	x	x	x
Your name here	x	x	x	x	x

Past Social Meetings

Suggestions for future socials

If you like the idea, please let us know!

Outdoors

• Sledding (but where? (judd hill and eastwood park are official sites in roch for sledding, stewartville has a sledding hill))
• Snowshoeing and/or cross country skiing at Quarry Hill. They also rent equipment. (Nerstrand Big Woods state park also has showshoes for rent)
• Paintball
• Mini golf
• Canoe trip (this would have to be at least a half day trip to the Root River)
• Ice cream social
• Kite flying
• Picnic
• Frisbee golf
• Walk
• Roadside or river litter cleanup
• Geocaching - perhaps we can borrow some devices and have several practice caches set up, or perhaps we can team up to find some more challenging targets. Probably also a multi-hour social.
• Orienteering event or practice field trip
• Snow tubing and/or skiing at Steeplechase (No good, Steeplechase is closed for 2007-2009 seasons)
• WWFM (World Wide Flash Mob), the next one is Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Indoors

• Goonies Comedy Club
• Bowling
• Whistle Binkies / Westfire / Beetles / Whisky Bones / other locations with adult beverages and now smoke free!
• pwned game center gaming night (did 12/08) or Area 51 Gaming
• Movies (upcoming sci fi movie releases include Watchmen, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Star Trek XI, Terminator IV, Transformers II, or whatever you have to suggest)
• Discussion of experience of being an election judge, next time we meet someplace that's not too loud
• Board and card games. Some members are fans of Robo Rally and Munchkin
• Ice skating at the Rec Center, skate rentals available
• RC helicoptor/plane flying at the Rec Center. Tuesday nights, 7-10 pm. Bring your own UFO. Free.
• Rube Goldberg device, built out of whatever we brought. Include Diet Coke and Mentos?
• Potato guns!
• Baking geeky cookies
• Take an introductory archery session at Archery Headquarters
• Museum field trip:
  • Bell Museum of Natural History in Minneapolis, Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul
  • Putnam Museum & IMAX Theatre in Davenport IA for the May 23 - Sept. 8, 2009 GPS Adventure exhibit. Details on what the exhibit would be like can be found here http://www.minotaurmazes.com/mazedetail.html?maze=19
• Leonardo's Basement has adult projects at Studio Bricolage (Jan topic was build a jacob's ladder and other high voltage projects )

• Your suggestion here, please (or email tina)