TR Contest: Fictional Educational Opportunities

By Rob Bricken in Miscellaneous, Nerdery
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 5:00 pm
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Today's contest is sponsored by OtherTees, makers of fine t-shirts like the "Duel in Space" I featured yesterday. Indeed, today's contest is also directly inspired by the shirt OtherTees is releasing next week -- the Imperial Academy Pilot Institute school logo -- pictured over on the right. It got me thinking about fictional schools... and how actual schools are including more nerd-centric classes in their curriculum, like examination of comics and the like.

So here is this weekend's contest: Tell me the classes that the educational institutes of nerd franchises should teach. For example:

• Imperial Academy Stormtrooper Institute -- Hitting the Broad Side of a Barn
• Hogwarts -- Defense Against All the Deadly Creatures We Leave Loose on School Grounds
• Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters -- How to Make Out Your Will
• Wolverine's Jean Grey School for Higher Learning -- Why Cyclops Is a Dick 101

Now, it doesn't have to be an established fictional school; feel free to think up classes for Arrakis High or Winterfell Public School 303 or whatever. You might earn bonus points for thinking up a clever/funny school, but the main draw will be the classes. Also feel free to include the classes' teachers if you want.

Three entries per person; three winners will receive the Imperial Academy shirt, courtesy of OtherTees. If you haven't purchased your "Duel in Space" shirt, you've only got a bit over a day to do so. Meanwhile, the contest ends at 12:01 am EST on Monday, January 30th. Have a great weekend, everybody, and please, if you've got milk, get rid of it as soon as possible.

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