Thinking Inside The Box

II.  The Conference

A member from each research group (not the leader or the recorder) will be asked to make a formal presentation to the conference on their group's findings.  This presentation should summarize your findings and should not be a simple list of observations.  The conference chair will act as a recorder.

III.  The Agency

Following the conversation about the conference as a whole, a person in the back of the hall (whom no one had noticed previously) stands up and says, "I am Dr. Kasten, and I represent the F.B.I., the Federal Box Institute.  I must say that the level of scholarship that I have seen at this meeting impresses me.  We are in the process of accepting grant proposals to further The Box studies and would be willing to entertain proposals from each of the groups represented here today.  Please be sure that these proposals fit within the tenets of The Box Studies:  that we are striving for the best description of the contents of The Box and that The Box may never be opened."

Each group will have five minutes to prepare a short research proposal.  This proposal should indicate what, experimentally, is to be performed and what results might be expected.  Each group will make their presentations to the conference.  The conference will act as a review panel, with each member of the conference "voting" for his/her favorite proposal (an individual may not vote for his/her group's proposal).  The two proposals with the greatest amount of support will be funded.