Power DOWN Team Orange Crush

Power DOWN Team Orange Crush here!!!

Every donation to this Power DOWN campaign slows down Sarah Hurley (Our ExtraRace 2024 CHAMPION) and Melissa Groff, Stone's Board of Trustees Reps for this year! 

You have the power to prevent them from WINNING the 2025 competition! 

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$1 Power Down: The world is such a hectic place! Have a seat for 15 minutes and just...have a think.

$250 Power Down: Everything else, plus: let’s communicate!  Your team must find a mailbox and mail a postcard to Stone. The postcard must contain: a haiku about your suffering + a sketch of your suffering + a rating of the race so far (out of 7).

The ExtraRace!  It’s a get-to!

$500 Power Down: Everything else, plus: find a peaceful spot at Binn's Park and do 15 minutes of meditation.  Just, sit, close your eyes, and notice your breath.  This one’s really a gift!

$1000 Power Down: Everything else, plus: you know what else is peaceful?  Silence!  Your team cannot speak out loud for 30 minutes.  To anyone!  Yourselves included!  #HealthyCommunicationMakesAHealthyTeamHealthier!

$1,500 Power Down: Everything else, plus a quick question: where do jingle bells come from?

We don’t know, but now your team is wearing them.  All day!

$2000 Power Down: Everything else, plus: your team will have to get their hands on two (2) undoctored (undoctored) eggs and carry them for the entire race!  That’s so annoying! Also: if at any point in time you are asked to produce two undoctored eggs, you will need to do so!  If you cannot do so, your team will have to return to Stone and touch the front door with your nose.  

$2001 Power Down: Everything else, plus: your team is banned from carrying more than two eggs at a time!

$2002 Power Down: Everything else, plus: your eggs need drawings of eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and a contemporary hairstyle!  And: you’ll need to post them on Slack, having a conversation with each other about the complexities of predicting global weather patterns!  #EggSlack

$3,000 Power Down: Everything else, plus: is this the worst of all power-downs?  Maybe.  But.  Walk to the nearest coffee shop.  Sit down.  And spend 30 minutes drinking a decaf latte.  DECAF!!!

$4,000 Power Down: Everything else, plus: call a friend, or an Uber, and head exactly two miles farther away from Tellus than you are right now and then get back to walking.  It’s a good thing no one’s wearing flippers!

$4,500 Power Down:  Everything else, plus: it’s a 60 minute comms black-out for your team.  Phones = turned off.  Internet watches put away.  You’re off GPS, you’re off WiFi, you cannot use the internet, you cannot receive notes from HQ, you’re totally in the dark.  If you can remember challenges, you can write them down to share later.

You can use a payphone.  You can use a rotary phone.  But you cannot use any phone which is not wired/grounded/wicked-old looking.

How do you like them apples?

$5,000 Power Down: Everything else, plus: your team is now blocked from walking along Prince, Queen, or King Street.  If your challenge is on any of those streets, you’ll have to get there by walking on a different street, then walking the shortest possible distance on any of those three, then immediately departing.  

$6,000 Power Down:  Everything else, plus: you’re going to have to drop everything, track down Peggy Ankney, and complete a physics problem.  

This one exists largely because Horst likes the idea that there’s a challenge called, “Take it down a Peg.”  

$7500 Power Down: Everything else, plus: one member of your team has to replace their footwear with flippers for the rest of the race.  That one’s horrible.  

$10,000 Power Down: Everything else, plus: your team is going to have to get in an Uber and go another 5 miles away from Tellus.  You’re not necessarily out of the race….but you are wearing flippers and you’re in, like, Lititz or something.  So. 

$20,000 Power Down: You’ll need to find yourself at the Maryland Border (Where exactly? Team’s Choice!) and take a picture with a Welcome To Pennsylvania sign. And then tag @governorshapiro and Stone on your socials so we all know that you’re back safely in the Commonwealth

$100,000 Power Down: The bad news is: your team is headed to Punkeydoodlers Corners, Ontario.

The good news is: whoever contributed the most to this Power Down gets to use this power down to create and name an endowed fund or endowed chair, which will help sustain the school in perpetuity.  So, not all is lost!

Except for you!  You almost certainly lost!