Past Tasks
Past tasks include:
- 2012 Inflate a balloon and pop it
- 2011 Water a Plant
- 2010 Dispense an Appropriate Amount of Hand Sanitizer into a Hand
- 2009 Replace an Incandescent Light Bulb with a More Energy Efficient Light Emitting Design
- 2008 Assemble a Hamburger
- 2007 Squeeze the Juice from an Orange
- 2006 Shred 5 Sheets of Paper
- 2005 Change Batteries and Turn on a 2-battery Flashlight
- 2004 Select, Mark and Cast an Election Ballot
- 2003 Select, Crush and Recycle an Empty Soft Drink Can
- 2002 Select, Raise and Wave a U.S. Flag
- 2001 Select, Clean and Peel an Apple
- 2000 Fill and Seal a Time Capsule with 20th-century Inventions
- 1999 Set a Golf Tee and Tee Up a Golf Ball
- 1998 Shut Off An Alarm Clock
- 1997 Insert and Then Play a CD Disc
- 1996 Put Coins in a Bank
- 1995 Turn on a Radio
- 1994 Make Cup of Coffee
- 1993 Screw a Light Bulb into a Socket
- 1992 Unlock a Combination Padlock
- 1991 Toast a Slice of Bread
- 1990 Put the Lid on a Ball Jar
- 1989 Sharpen a Pencil
- 1988 Adhere a Stamp to a Letter
- 1987 Put Toothpaste on a Toothbrush
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Famous quotes containing the word tasks:
“I am of course confident that I will fulfil my tasks as a writer in all circumstances—from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer’s pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation—these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events—a job, a mate, a child—through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)