Carefully tearing out bits of paper from different publications and piecing them together to convey some aspect of the theme. The main lawns of the MIT campus presented a colourful picture as the participants sat down to stick their collage together for the Stick 'em Up competition for Pepsi-Verve '99.The theme was Infinity. Given a sheet of imperial paper, the participants had to fold it into a cube of 17 cubic centimetres. Keeping one side blank, the remaining five had to depict some aspect of infinity. While most depicted love, population and time through pictures of hearts, beautiful faces and watches, there were also some who found a way out to present their idea.One team had cut out the digit one and a number of mug shots of politicians, with a horizontal line in between. The idea? One divided by zero (represented by the politicians!) is equal to infinity!! Some put forth their idea through pictures of birds in flight (meaning freedom), colours, meditation (number of people caught in a reflective pose), a number of question marks or simply through a mass of numbers. An eclectic range, one idea, different interpretations. Judges Milinda Natu, Deepali Vartak, S.D. Phadnis, Rajeev Agarwal and Anant Bhide must have spent a good many hours trying to figure out each entry!
