Worst Retro Engineering
Originally posted on December 2, 2007
Last edited on September 3, 2008
Work Area: MARKETING, RESEARCH
Action Requested: PUBLIC RELATIONS, CONTENT PRODUCTION, FUND RAISING
Audience: STUDENTS IN TECHNOLOGY
Term: 1 YEAR [5/5]
Level: NO BRAINER [1/5]
Priority: DOODLE [1/5]
Team: < 20 PEOPLE [3/5]
Classified: UNCLASSIFIED [1/5]
Abstract: The idea of WORST was born in September 2003 in Rome (Italy) during a boring day, wasted studying physics and mathematics. The outcome of the coffee-break was a decision to organise a Worldwide Association for students that have abandoned technology academies to join real life or embrace any other kind of course, as a response to the tedious BEST, Board of European Students in Technology. WORST Fake Courses are the core activity: these are events about one year in length, uniting students of technology from all over the world to apply their ideas on a technological subject. However, while these subjects are of an attractive and innovative nature, mixing various topics in engineering education, education on itself is not the only goal of these events: equally important are expanding horizons, improving cultural understanding and in general providing students of technology with the opportunity to experience something unique for no cost.
Business model: get revenues from advertising on the website.
What do you get in exchange: you will be the president of the Dick Dastardly version of the classic Academic Association.
Fund raising: private financing, advertising, subscription fees.
Further readings: null.
Administrators: Carlo Lancia, Alessandro Checco, Cristina de Persis, Marco Infussi.
Files repository: null.
Past milestones: identity and website, several users registered.
Actual milestones: mirroring BEST website, changing the word BEST with WORST and the relative sense of the phrases; writing articles about retroengineering and transform the website in this way, with posts about how stuff works and how you can modify it; organize a retroengineering contest on the internet, asking to build a mashup of devices, or a Rube Goldberg machine, or a new device; fund groups all over the world in other universities.
Actual requested items: technical items to retroengineer.
Actual trouble: lack of leaders.
Development stage: hardware 100%, software 90%, identity 100%, content 30%, test 100%.
Website: www.worst.it
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Classified: unclassified
Level: no brainer
Priority: doodle
Team: 6-20 people
Term: years
To do: marketing
To do: research
Tags:
Academic Association • Boring Day • Coffee Break • Content Production • Core Activity • Cultural Understanding • Dick Dastardly • Education Education • Engineering Education • European Students • Expanding Horizons • How Stuff Works • Mashup • Persis • Relative Sense • Rome Italy • Technological Subject • Technology Term • Term 1 • Worldwide Association
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