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Marital Status:** Single Notable The embodiment of snowboarding, Danny Kass is a two-time Olympic silver halfpipe medalist, 7-time Winter X Games medalist and president of his company, Grenade Gloves. Laid-back and extremely skilled in both halfpipe and slopestyle, Danny's motivation is apparent in his accomplishments, including four U.S. Open victories and multiple Vans Cup overall titles and Abominable Snow Jam wins. He's also active on screen and with the Grenade Strikes Back Tour, which will air on Fuel TV over the 2007-08 winter. At WX 2007, Danny didn't make the podium in any of the three disciplines he was entered in, but he did break his left wrist and still has pain. ||  ||
 * **__ //Dutchie//-B __** || Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new [|ideas] or [|concepts], or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts, creativity is fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious [|insight]. ||  ||
 * || Creativity is where something diffrent is aplied to something or finding a diffrent way of doing something. ||  ||
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 * || The power or ability to invent ||  ||
 * =Danny Kass= || **
 * Participant since:** 1992
 * Competitor since:** 1997
 * Nickname(s):** BIG DAN
 * Country:** USA
 * Resides In:** PORTLAND, OR
 * Age:** 25
 * Height:** 5 ft 6
 * Weight:** 155 lbs
 * Occupation:** PRO SNOWBOARDER/CO-OWNER & PRESIDENT OF GRENADE
 * ** Travis Rice ** || **Marital Status:** Single
 * Participant since:** 1993
 * Competitor since:** 2001
 * Country:** USA
 * Resides In:** JACKSON HOLE, WY
 * Age:** 25
 * Height:** 5 ft 10
 * Weight:** 172 lbs
 * Occupation:** PRO SNOWBOARDER

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The Best Trick Showdown silver medalist from WX 2007 got hooked up with Quiksilver and is venturing into new territory, filming and contest management. Claiming a new attitude regarding competitions, Travis is cutting back and will only be doing Winter X and a few other select contests. T-Rice thrives on competitions and has a track record to prove it, including three WX medals. With a hard charging attitude, he continues to be at the forefront of snowboard progression and won his second straight Icer Air big air event in November '07. ||  || 2nd) problem was getting the figure to stand. 3rd) problem was getting the figure to reach the ceiling. ||  || 2nd) we just used more supports and braced it to the floor. 3rd) we put a few straws together at the top. ||  ||  Type in the content of your new page here.
 * ** Straw Project ** ||  ||   ||
 * || First Ryan and I wanted to create a base for our structure. And after that once we started to build up, we found out that it would not not hold by its self so we put supports into the middle. And once it was up about 6 feet it started to wable, so we connected straws to the corners of the figure and then connected the other end to the floor. Then we just made small adjustments from there. ||  ||
 * || 1st) problem was trying to find a way not to use all the tape.
 * || 1st) we cut a little hole in the straw to connect certain things, to cut down on tape use.
 * || Ryan and i did not need more of anything. ||  ||
 * || Yes because we won. ||  ||
 * ** Card Board Chair Project ** || Well Ryan and I tried to think of structures that could support Mr.Hunts weight. And we thought of a few ideas but we decide to go with one we did not think of right away. For the inside of our chair we are going to use something that some what looks like the inside of a wine box. And we found that this structure is very strong by placing books apon it, to see if it could possibly support Mr.Hunts weight. ||<  ||<   ||<   ||
 * <  || First Dutch and I tried a couple designs for our base of the chair for the best support. We first tried a triangle for the leg of the chair but that did not seem like it was going to hold up very well. We then made a new design for our chair base with a square bottom and supports running in in a grid pattern for extra support within the chair. We drew out a design for our sides of our chair but we kept cutting down and did it over and over. We downsized our sides by about 2 or 2 1/2 feet. For the supports in the back we folded cardboard into triangles and put them on the back of the chair for the flat piece to lay over. And in this project i learned how to use many new tools from watching Ryan use them and also quite a few new ways how to use them. ||   ||
 * **Waterballon Launcher** || In this project we had to build a waterballon launcher. And i was paired with Ryan Joe Mitch Missy and Stacey. I did not help that much in the planning of this launcher but the design is a tube with bungie cords connected to it, with a smaler tube in side to give the ballon some extra force.Also in our first design we were going to springs to propel the ballon, but the springs had to much tension so we cound not use them. And we were not going to originally use a peice of PVC pipe to go on the inside, we were actually going to use a 6 in peice of tubing. I feel that our groups launcher will work fairly well because we test fired it and it launched the inner peice several feet into a wall. ||  ||