STRIVE!
Scene-by-Scene Summary
STRIVE! opens with a five-minute set showing children how to juggle bowling pins two-at-a-time, three-at-a-time, behind-the-back, and under-the-leg. A volunteer is recruited from the audience to help juggle.
The show then features five minutes of advanced yo-yo tricks that mesmerize the audience. Interspersed are comments about the value of goal setting as the starting point for learning and developing skills and talents. Small skills lead to big skills. Learn to walk, and you can soon learn to run!
The next fifteen minutes are spent demonstrating more challenging skills, including contortion moves such as reverse arm juggling (you have to see it to believe it!). The performer also fits his body through a squash racket. Amidst these manoeuvres stories are told about how these abilities came to be possible.
Next, for twelve minutes, the wonders of science and academic learning are demonstrated. Volunteers are brought up from the audience to work the Giant Gyro-tron. This highlights physics as a means of understanding weight, friction, and leverage in an applied and easy-to-understand fashion.
STRIVE! ends with a five-minute musical demonstration showing "what's needed" to play in a rock band. The show's key message is also restated, and a balancing feet is performed that everyone remembers.
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