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- superal1394, on 10/11/2007, -7/+170@thekidd: This will fail. As a teenager taking chemistry, I know for a fact that this will explode for a week, then crash worse than the ultimate sugar high. Schools will jump on anything to make learning "fun," but what it boils down to is if the teacher sucks, the class is boring, and no one learns.
My teacher sucks, so she tries to use all of these little props and stuff, but no one gets any of it still. I end up resorting to Wikipedia, and reading it out there.
The answer to better education is good teachers, not toys and card games. - zakangelle, on 10/11/2007, -1/+96Starcraft 2 is better.
- moocow1452, on 10/11/2007, -0/+89Potassium, I choose you!
- mindstyle1, on 10/11/2007, -12/+84Your son will be working for this little punk... in other words, he'll be his bitch!
- GawtMilk, on 10/11/2007, -5/+72I say that public schools should just let students use the internet during class.
i'm in ur classroom, lurnin about sodium tetraborate pentahydrate porn - loganhid, on 10/11/2007, -5/+65So basically its 'Yu-Gi-Oh'
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -16/+72Brilliant idea..............this kid's definitely going to get funded, I have no doubt.
- SillyRabbits, on 10/11/2007, -5/+52He wants 100k, yet he can't even sign a legally binding contract for another 5 years? A 13 year old as an official CEO might be a nice gimmick, but it's pretty silly from the bureaucratic stance in the business world. I think the days of VCs throwing money at any and every idea has passed for a while.
- meanteen, on 10/11/2007, -2/+39Yeah.... I bet little Swissy Camel Junior mus be furious
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+40yeah this might be cool for 3 kids in a class but the rest of the class will just sit there and go.. wow u guys are lame.
- nhprm, on 10/11/2007, -3/+33But, poverty certainly doesn't buy happiness
- LopsidedZebra, on 10/11/2007, -6/+36D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-DUEL!
- calabria, on 10/11/2007, -3/+32I see what you did there!
- TheDigerati, on 10/11/2007, -14/+43I was impressed. I expected something a little more mediocre. Schools should definitely implement alternative learning methods such as this.
- tom6a, on 10/11/2007, -20/+47It sounds like a good idea.
"Here’s how the game works: You command an army of chemical elements, compounds and catalysts — represented within a 66-card deck (the fire and brimstone card at left is for “Sulfur,” for example). Your opponent has his own deck with the same number of cards. Your goal is to battle your competitor and reduce his IQ down to zero. Pit your oxygen card against your opponent’s iron card, for example, and you learn that you create rust. Score one for oxygen. Kind of like rock-paper-scissors, but with chemicals, dice and 66 impressively illustrated cards featuring monster-themed caricatures of chemicals."
According to the article "he won’t start shipping product until he either receives his first 2,500 orders, or he closes a decent round of funding, whichever comes first." He has 450 so far. Let's help him out Digg! I don't see a way to order on his website here: http://www.elementeo.com/ but it looks like you can preorder by sending an email to preorder@elementeo.com Not sure what the cost is.
I think that after this gets dugg they are going to wish they were not taking all their orders via email. - macbwizard, on 10/11/2007, -5/+32It's a good idea though I hope he has hired the appropriate people to help him. At 13 years old, I doubt he's had any substantive chemistry or physics.
- tonich03, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2813 and already working in a company. Poor kid...
- Satanael, on 10/11/2007, -0/+25You know the game is over as soon as someone draws Enriched Plutonium.
- superal1394, on 10/11/2007, -2/+26orrrrr schools could be given the power to fire teachers with tenure when it is show they suck and get better teachers who actually care and teach
- superal1394, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24I am activating an uncontrolled nuclear reaction by firing neutrons at your refined plutonium stockpile, your entire stockpile is incinerated, and all of your infrastructure has been destroyed. I win.
- neoknight, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21@swisscamel
As a father myself, You shame me.
How can you talk about your kid like that! - TheNik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20A 13 year old can't sign a legally binding contract - how is he a CEO?
- spootmonkey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20So then you JUMP to a conclusion on the mat...its brilliant.
- HMTKSteve, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19Hold on while I play the lethal Di-hydrogen-Monoxide card!!!!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21I summon Uranium level 56 with 5 hydrogen power ups and destroy your deck.
o - neutrino15, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19Congrats, you invented a game...... Sell it to hasbro or something......
- GawtMilk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19I bent my radium :(
- AJMuni, on 10/11/2007, -3/+20Great idea...is it me or does he remind you of a darker ralfy from the simpsons?
- GawtMilk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17Not many people on the Forbes 500 got that way through selling education-based card games.
- DyDx, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18You must have never been a kid, because I'm quite sure that if kids were given the choice of learning chemistry with a book or with a competitive card game (that actually looks quite fun -- you can check out some of the cards on their website, as well as more of the rules), they'd pick the card game every time. I can definitely see this game and similar games being used as a reward in classrooms for good behavior. Just imagine -- "OK everyone, if you listen to me talk about this boring ***** for 30 minutes you can spend the last 20 minutes of class playing a card game." It's a game -- no matter what the game is about, it's still a game -- and kids will always pick games over what they consider to be boring, old fashioned "learning."
- Rhatz, on 10/11/2007, -4/+19yes and if he is very successful he can retire at 20
- pagancollective, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15It would be so awkward being fired by him. Or being at one of his board meetings, for that matter.
- fenixconnektion, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14What parents will do to get their kid into an Ivy League institution these days...
from book reports and dioramas to setting up million-dollar startups. That's the 21st century for you. - Le3f, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16He's obviously having fun with it. How is that sacrificing childhood?
- titlesaysitall, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15I summon my Blue Eyes White Dragon!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+16You understand these facts don't you:
1- The "KID" front is just a way to call for attention.
2- The gaming market is Hyper-saturated.
3- This is the internet.
4- If education was funny, the MIT's main building would be a Circus's tent.
5- Educational games went the way of the Dodo. - xxTazxx, on 10/11/2007, -5/+17I like the idea that he's come up with a great idea and has the guts to take it forward...but anyone else think he might be sacrificing his childhood a bit too much? Granted he might end up being filthy rich...but still you never get your youth back, and wait-for-it...money isn't everything.
- tektalk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Great kid! Don't get cocky.
- newstart, on 10/11/2007, -11/+23Soon Bill Gates gonna call him and say:
"I will either buy you or enter your domain and crush you. Your choice!" - timo1023, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11If only Pokemon had implemented this, I would know the periodic table like the back of my hand.
- pauliusuza, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Hey, let me close this sale and lets go play hide and seek
- saralk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11The ironic thing is that the people who would be bothered to learn how to play the game probably don't need help learning.
- wes00mertes, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13@macbwizard:
I doubt his card game is going to deal with any extensive physics or chemistry. The elements are cartoon monsters... - sonycam, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16The kid is bright but I don't see how it's going to generate $1m revenue from $100k and supposedly be 'selling throughout the world' as it doesn't look like he's sold a single deck.
- Anonymous3, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Finally, someone putting a (C?)CG to good use.
I summon... BUCKYBALL - Celeron, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10I attack you with lightning strike from Fluoride.
- newstart, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12He is an Indian! Those guys are brilliant!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I don't know why so many people feel the need to "shake up" education - learning from textbooks never did us any harm.
- newstart, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11oh look a nerd who likes eating jelly while looking at graphs
- Atomic1fire, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11If he gets filthy rich He could just buy his prom date
and host prom at his mansion
and sue the pants off the bullys for pain and suffering
and have the legal advisor's to prove it -
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