I Can’t Let You do That, Dave

Elevator Pitch

Friend Computer has a few things for you to do today!  Help stop the robot revolution by bringing crucial components to the Resistance.

Today We’re Doing: 

This is the long-form description of the day’s events.

Things That Happen

When Life Gives You Lemons

Cave Johnson is making lemon grenades! Steal a single lemon from the turret for this part of your challenge.

Required items:

  • Motion-activated turret
  • Lemons
  • Lemon basket

Setup:

  • Turn on the turret
  • Set the lemon basket in front of it and fill with lemons

How to play:

The motion sensors on the turret can be evaded.  Steal a lemon from the basket without setting them off and bring it to the Resistance.

I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave

HAL9000 is shutting down the ship. Wearing your space gloves (don’t take them off or you’re a goner), you’ll need to remove 1 of HAL’s cores.

Required items:

  • Space gloves (we used large kitchen gloves)
  • Balls or other round objects
  • Bowls to put the balls in

Setup:

  • Put the balls in the bowls

How to play:

Wearing the Space Gloves, you have to retrieve and transfer a core to the resistance. 

Dalek

Daleks are invading! Impersonate a Dalek and steal their secret plans.  

Required items:

  • Plunger
  • Dowel rod
  • Object to transfer

Setup:

  • Set up a start and end point for the object transfer
  • Place the object in the starting bowl

How to play:

Holding the plunger with one hand and the dowel rod with the other hand, transfer the object to the Resistance.

Danger, Will Robinson!

You’re trapped on a spacecraft that’s directly in the path of a meteor storm! The dastardly Dr. Smith has sabotaged your computers and you’ll have to fly manually! Navigate safely to planetfall on the other side. 

Required items:

  • Traffic cones
  • Styrofoam or ping-pong balls to use as meteors
  • A ball 

Setup:

  • Set up the traffic cones in a slalom or minefield pattern
  • Set balls on the top of the cones

How to play:

Using your feet, navigate the ship (ball) through the meteor storm without hitting any.  If you knock a ball off of a cone, you have to start over. 

You Will Be Assimilated

The Borg are hunting Starfleet members! Find and rescue your entire crew before they are assimilated. 

Required items:

  • 3d printed Starfleet badges of four types (command, medical, engineering, and science)

Setup:

  • This requires permission of the vendors 
  • Stash Starfleet badges at vendor tables

How to play:

Kids must find and retrieve four different Starfleet badges from the vendor hall. 

Sequence of Events:

  1. What happens first?

Supplies: 

Purchased Supplies:

  • Bulleted list of supplies

Motley Kids Non-Consumable Supplies

  • Scissors, etcetera

Notes for Setup/Teardown