Tron School

Welcome to Tron School. The basic idea, and you are welcome to take part and improve upon every element of it, is to set up a competition of tron across school globally. Kind of like football, where every school has a football team. Well, instead of american, australian, european, irish, all these different kinds of football games, we have fortress, speeders, crazy, these variations.

Stages

• stage 1: coming up with the idea, formalising it, and updating it
• stage 2: contacting schools, finding some maths teachers who enjoy the game so much, they want to set up a school team
• stage 3: promoting the competition to other maths teachers, councils, educational authorities, etc
• stage 4: setting up the first competition
• stage 5: developing a regular perhaps weekly competition run along similar lines to tronic, with big competitions annually

Stage 1

coming up with the idea, formalising it, and updating it

Well, ideas are cheap. The trick is, coming up with a design that works. The game has already been designed, it works, it is fantastic. The trick is, creating a means by which we can invite schools to participate as easily as possible, and we get to producing a successful, sustainable, repeatable competition.

Stage 2

contacting schools, finding some maths teachers who enjoy the game so much, they want to set up a school team

Ok, I only know a few maths teachers. I will email a few schools, see what the response is after a month. So, by december, hopefully, there are a few maths teachers who are so into the game, they will put the effort required to have the game set up in their school, and run an after school club. I will also create an ad for youtube so that prospective teachers and kids I suppose, can see what the game involves, and the competition. More like an invitation.

Stage 3

promoting the competition to other maths teachers, councils, educational authorities, etc

Well, we need a team of dedicated professionals, heheh, to come up with a strong campaign I suppose. It is definitely a team-effort at this stage.

Stage 4

setting up the first competition

Once we reach a certain threshold, perhaps 100 schools?, we might run the competition. Hopefully the experience of setting up tronic spoon and ladles will help in this.

Stage 5

developing a regular perhaps weekly competition run along similar lines to tronic, with big competitions annually

If it gets reasonably big, and we need a little more programming etc to make the competitions run smoother, I think we might be able to set up an entry fee, something like £1 a tournament, purely to pay the developers. Well... along the lines of Tronic teams could win money, which could be useful for schools. However, there are many associated problems with implementing a system that does this, so let's forget about it for now. What is important, is that we get some good games played on the grid!