[Cerek the Barbaric]

Originally posted by Vaskez: Hmmm I wouldn't have thought to crumple it into a ball because the criterion was to make a paper AEROPLANE and a ball is not a plane. So I'm not sure if that was ingenious lateral thinking or just cheating [img]tongue.gif[/img] I can do the latter

The challenge was NOT to create an AEROPLANE that would fly a specific distance. The student had already made the airplane. Since he did it during the time he was supposed to by studying, the teacher could have punished him for it, but decided to issue a challenge instead. All the teacher said was "You have to get that plane past this line". He didn't say that it had to still be in the shape of a plane. Breaking it down even further, the challenge was to get that piece of paper past the line the teacher drew. And even the teacher had to give the student credit for coming up with such an innovative solution...he thought for SURE he was going to win the challenge, but the student managed to think of a way to get the plane past the line.

It was a solution that even James T. Kirk would have been proud of.