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Regalar flores, Rusia

· 　 　* ·　 + . 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐚 📷 　 ·　　 📷· · 　　　·. ˚ . . 　 + ˚ 　　. ✦ 　 · 📷· ˚ 　 ⊹ ✷ 　　 　　　 * ⊹ 　°.• .　 📷· 　 ✺ ✦ . + · 　 . 📷+. Rusia, actividad narrativa 📷+. distintivo + #PPPRs002 📷+. 10 tickets, sin fecha límite. REGALAR FLORES from Rusia. Regalar flores a nuestros seres queridos es un acto común para demostrar afecto sobre todo en celebraciones especiales. Sin embargo, en Rusia es toda una práctica con la que se debe tener mucho cuidado pues de hacer algo mal se puede considerar un mal augurio. Regalar flores en números pares es algo exclusivo por realizar cuando habrá un funeral, por ello, siempre se que agradecerá más el regalar una rosa que doce. Cuéntanos cómo fue que te enteraste de esto, esperamos no hayas tenido un gran problema. Esperamos que esto te haya dado ideas para escribir, cuéntanos todo sobre como fue. Estamos ansiosos por leer lo que se les ocurre escribir al respecto. Recuerden compartir su actividad en el grupo, dejen volar su imaginación en este avión de papel.

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Cumpleaños Rusia

· 　 　* ·　 + . 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐚 📷 　 ·　　 📷· · 　　　·. ˚ . . 　 + ˚ 　　. ✦ 　 · 📷· ˚ 　 ⊹ ✷ 　　 　　　 * ⊹ 　°.• .　 📷· 　 ✺ ✦ . + · 　 . 📷+. Rusia, actividad narrativa 📷+. distintivo + #PPPRs001 📷+. 10 tickets, sin fecha límite. TRADICIÓN DE CUMPLEAÑOS from Rusia. Cumplir años puede ser algo que muchos aman y esperan mientras otros prefieren pasarlo desapercibido. Alrededor del mundo se tienen diferentes costumbres y tradiciones para celebrar ese “día especial” que nos recuerda que seguimos vivos. En Rusia se acostumbra colocar un hilo de tender con regalos para todos los niños que asistan, ellos se acercan y toman el que prefieran para llevarlo a casa y así ninguno se va con las manos vacías. ¿Cuál sería tu reacción? ¿crees que la celebración pierde su gracia o, por el contrario, es una buena idea para mantener a todos felices? Cuéntanos cómo ha sido festejar tu cumpleaños con esta tradición, recuerda que no hay límite de palabras.

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This wrap-up video for the race at Maker Faire Kansas City last weekend features one of the most epic battles for the top we've ever seen! Now that Sector67 is on hiatus and famous PPPRS driver Karen "Cannonball" Corbeill has retired, the championship is up for grabs -- and two teams from Illinois are desperate to get it! Phantom Power Racing from Chicago and Cartastrophe from Grayslake, IL each had one race win going into the Endurance Race on Sunday. By the first mandatory driver change, Phantom had pulled ahead by several laps and seemed well on their way to taking the race weekend, but an eager driver slammed into the back of the Iron Rose from Milwaukee Makerspace, costing them a Grim Reaper penalty, and the time it took to fix the damage to their car! Cartastrophe managed to pull ahead and keep the lead, finishing 1st overall for the weekend!

This race also featured a new team -- the Cow Car from MakeICT in Wichita, KS was a veritable Moxie machine, giving long time favorite The Lone Hacker a run for his Moxie. Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin, the head of PPPRS R&D, raced his Invent-a-Kart for the second weekend, showing off the kit car that will soon be available for purchase from Inventables. And Milwaukee Makerspace brought the noise with three cars this year -- longtime racer Audrey's Lotusaurus Wrecks (complete with dinosaur onesie), Tiffany's steampunk-inspired Iron Rose, and their little Moxie racer The Lil' Driver, a slow golf-cart looking thing that drummed up a roar from the grandstands on each and every painfully finished lap.

This weekend was certainly memorable, and if you weren't there, you can see a minute and a half long abbreviated version set to a song right here!

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Check out the wrap-up video for the PPPRS race at San Mateo Maker Faire, 2014! This race was all about speed versus Moxie -- powerhouse NIMBY from Oakland, CA swept all the races, charging toward a sure victory, only to have the Gold Yes yanked from their hands by the very resourceful Moxie team from Brookings Harbor High School in Brookings, OR. This is the first time a team has won the race weekend on pure Moxie alone, setting a new PPPRS record!

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One of the best parts about Maker Faire is meeting new makers. We met this new maker last weekend and it was a blast! What a cool little car he and his wife made!

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Get to Know Your Racers, #1: Team Daft Junk

Hello, and welcome to a new feature here at PPPRS: The Blog, Get to Know Your Racers! In the week before a Maker Faire race, we'll be showcasing the teams that are participating in that race so that you can get a sense of who they are, what they like, and whether or not you should give them Moxie. Since we only have ONE WEEK LEFT!!!!!! until the first race of the season, we thought this would be a fantastic time to tell you a little more about some of our newest teams, collectively called The West Coasters.

First up is a husband-wife duo from The Biggest Little City, Reno. Although this is their first year racing electric vehicles, they're not new to the Maker scene -- with a background in robot combat competitions and drone piloting, you can be sure they are coming with some... interesting skills. In fact, just hearing about their car makes us salivate at the possible hilariousness of Team Daft Punk: they welded the frame together with old swing set poles and installed a wheelchair gear motor drive wheel in the back of their vehicle. They even wrote a poem about it. Would you like to hear it? Of course you would.

*clears throat*

Daft Junk, a poem:

Krylon red and striped in black, Surplus motor set in back. Swingset frame, welded strong, Three wheeled ride - what could go wrong?

What a great team! We the organizers are really looking forward to getting to watch them duke it out on the track next weekend with teams from all over the west coast. See you in a week, Team Daft Junk! *bwahahahaha*

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There's good news and bad news.

The good news is that the demand for space at North Carolina Mini Maker Faire has been so immense that they've needed to change venues to an even larger space. This is super exciting for them, but the bad news is that their new venue does not have the outdoor space that we need to hold a PPPRS race. So, we will not be having a race at the North Carolina Mini Maker Faire this year. We are hopeful that next year, they will be able to fit us, and we extend our warmest congratulations and well wishes for a successful Maker Faire!

But, don't despair -- we are working on adding one or two new races to our season, so sit tight and details will be posted soon!

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Our winningest racer of all time, Karen Corbeill, is hanging up her helmet this season and joining the PPPRS Sanctioning Body as an Event Organizer. Jim, in typical Jim fashion, put together this beautiful tribute video for her. RIP Karen. (Retire. Retire in Peace.)