Prompt: 
I recently came across this article titled, “The 12 most pointless things ever invented.” It gave me a good laugh, so I clicked on a few more articles with the same idea, and before I knew it, I had completely abandoned my Chemistry homework. So that’s what this week’s prompt is. Write about someone who is trying to promote a so-called “groundbreaking” invention.

Word Count: 150-250 words

Expectations:
-Remember that you are writing for the King's Academy community. Please be respectful of that community.
​-Respect the word count
-Your work should have a title--this is not part of your word count.
-Include your full name and word count at the end of your submission.
-Have fun with this challenge.

Deadline:
22:00 Tuesday, September 29th

Photo Source: Surreal Memes Wiki - Fandom.

Prompt:
After a large-scale EMP strike, the world is left without electricity and peculiar natural phenomenon start to occur frequently. Write about a person exploring an extreme environment in this world. 

Word Count: 150-250 words

Expectations:
-Remember that you are writing for the King's Academy community. Please be respectful of that community.
​-Respect the word count
-Your work should have a title--this is not part of your word count.
-Include your full name and word count at the end of your submission.
-Have fun with this challenge.

Photo Source: Hashas, Zineddine, and Geoff Robinson. The Sahara Desert, Painted White With Snow. NPR, 9 Jan. 2018
www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/09/576747323/photos-the-sahara-desert-painted-white-with-snow. 

Gabriella was kind enough to allow me to take on this week's prompt, and I thought I'd start with an excerpt on entropy by science blogger Euan Mearns: 

"The universe, without exception, is moving from a state of order to disorder. 
"This statement leads to confusion – our everyday experience with reality shows entropy being reversed. For example, solar energy hits the leaf of a tree, and is used to create complex carbohydrates. Using lower order energy to create greater order in the carbohydrates of a leaf seemingly violates the laws of thermodynamics.
"Except, that it doesn’t.  To generate that ray of light, inside the sun, 600 million tons of hydrogen per second is converted to energy.  This is a massive flow of order (the atoms) to disorder (energy).  The leaf of a tree converts a tiny percentage of this disordered energy back to order. Combining the two together shows that, overall, there is still a massive flow of order to disorder.
Looking up at the night sky what you see are entropy generating machines – the stars are destroying order on a massive scale."

Have a look at the full text here. 

Prompt:
Write a piece that explores this endless cycle of order and disorder.

Word Count: 110-130 words

Expectations:
-Remember that you are writing for the King's Academy community. Please be respectful of that community.
​-Respect the word count
-Your work should have a title--this is not part of your word count.
-Include your full name and word count at the end of your submission.
-Have fun with this challenge.

Deadline:
22:00 Tuesday, August 18th

Photo Credit: goodluz, Shutterstock


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