School Folding Team

chris45457

Like the poll says, should i start a folding team at my school? I figure we hold a scrap drive for pc's or do fundraisers, or get sponsors. I could always beg the principal for money too. I want to no if i should write my principal a proposal to start one or quit wasting my time and do something else.

Michael J Herm

Whats a folding team?

masterkremekorn

Yea, I don't know what it is either

BSO_Cards

nobody can fold tshirts as fast or as good as i can

Michael J Herm

Are you serious? LOL I love those cup stacking teams... Start one of those they're funny

Dev67

Folding @ home (or at school)
folds proteins over and helps to fight diseases like alzheimers

AZNmodder

folding teams use their computers to run the fromgram f@h which simulates aminoacids folding into proteins

by doing this eventually we can discover why certain diseases happen from misfolds in proteins and hopefully discover the cure....f@h is quite competative...overclockers.com and hardocp have tons of folds done....xoxide has their own folding team but everyone is to lazy to fold...i got 1 fold done woot!

ugzkmk

yea... i still have know idea what folding is... i can get a picture, that usaully helps

AZNmodder

silly nubbin

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/

chris45457

i'm building my brother a computer, and we only have one in the house, so after i build him a comp, i'll be folding for xoxide using the linux console.

since i only have 333mhz, i got about 6 percent done after a few days.

for school, (and at home if i get the money) i figure i can run it under ps2 linux. 128-bit with direct ram, sounds like it would get awesome folding speed.

jojasary

i think it might be too costly for the schools, but itd be sweet if you started one

chris45457

not really. i figure i can run it on the 500 computers that my school already has, and a ps2 and a linux kit is only 250.my school is only a year old, and they just spend 25k just for the robotics team, so coming up with an optional 250 dollars shouldn't be hard.

BSO_Cards

25k on a robotics team!!! where the hell does your school get their money from!?!?!

chris45457

i have no idea. 25k was just the school. we got another 5k from disney and 10k from various local companies

BSO_Cards

all of our money goes to the football team(that is like the 2nd worst team in the state) and the cheerleading team.

It's interesting how cheerleaders will argue that cheerleading is a sport, yet in our school handbook it clearly defines cheerleading is not a sport. you want to know why? if cheerleading was a sport, then according to title 9 there would have to be equal funding to a male sport... if they did that, then the cheerleading budget would have to be cut... title 9 really ruined school sports

chris45457

i just found out my school had a ping pong team. i might do that, along with bowling
now only if they had air hockey...

Arainach

We have that problem. Next year, our Chemistry Classes will be dead because teachers have their budgets frozen. The Band, Rocket Club, Spanish Club, Quiz Bowl Team, etc. get 0 dollars. But football goes on. Don't you just love it.

I'd say that if you can get support from the administration, go ahead.

chris45457

yeah. they say that if you can get support from three teachers, that you can start a club. i'll ask a biology teacher, chemistry teacher, and my engineering teacher. i'll try to get the network admins at my school to help too.