Discuss “Blitz booths bring back childhood memories”

One of the most overlooked components of Carnival is the blitz booths, typically built by smaller organizations such as the Astronomy Club, Society for Women Engineers, and ALLIES. Although they may be smaller, have fewer resources, and have less time to build, blitz booths use these constraints to their advantage. By focusing on the simpler version of Carnival that most people are familiar with, smaller organizations take us back to a time when tossing a ping-pong ball into a plastic cup or knocking down some wooden pins was all the satisfaction we needed from a booth game.

This year?s theme, ?How Things Work,? brought out many organizations that had never participated in Booth. From academic departments to social organizations, each group...