That sounds like a really fun project.We were in Intro Computer Science learning python and we were using this Turtle Module to draw turtles and lines on the screen. The assignment was to create a straight race with two turtles and coaches. At the end of the assignment the professor chose to show three of the projects one that did the basics but passed and then showed this kids who had an American Fire works and 3 racers and he looked soo proud as the professor showed off his work.
Than if became time to show the "best" project according to the professor, in which he loaded my project.. Instead of a straight race, I created a Rainbow road with randomized colors and 5 racers that would race around it. I had coached that would randomly yell motivation or insults and fans who would cheer. When someone one the race the 1st, 2nd, 3rd place turtles would sit on a stand and fireworks would go off in the background.. Slowly the kid with the flag backgrounds head when further and further down as my project went on. The kid wouldn't look me in the eye for 3 weeks, he ended up dropping out on Computer Science.
There was this one time earlier this year where we were doing a mock election in our AP Gov class. You had to raise money from the other history teachers in order to fund your campaign and you needed to get 70 points from the teachers. Well my team reached 70 points... and we didn't stop. We got up to 90 and one of the other teams could not raise all the points they needed. They ended up with a 65% on the project (but they can bring it up to a 90 if they write this 4-page research paper on an election of the 1900s), and my group got a 120%.
