{"id":"col-club-event-ideas","audience":"college","category":"brainstorming","technique":"constraints","title":"Brainstorm club event ideas that fit your rules","free":false,"task":"You're planning spring events for the Environmental Club. You want exactly 5 numbered ideas, each one sentence, under 110 words in total, in plain text, with nothing else. Every idea must fit the club's limits in your meeting notes (budget, location, campus rules), be hands-on rather than sit-and-watch, and not repeat an event the club already held this year.","materialLabel":"Officer meeting notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB - officer meeting, Jan 22\n\nAttendance: Marcus, Leah, Sofia, me (Ben, events chair)\n\nBudget: SGA gave us $150 max per event for spring. No exceptions, Leah checked.\nLocation: ALL events on campus this spring. The club van is in the shop until fall and we can't rent buses.\nCampus policy: no alcohol at any registered student org event.\n\nAlready did this year (don't repeat!):\n- campus cleanup (Sept)\n- documentary night (Oct)\n- clothing thrift swap (Nov)\n\nFeedback from the member survey: people want more hands-on stuff, less sitting and watching. About 25 people usually come. Saturdays and Wednesday evenings work best.\n\nIdeas people floated:\n- field trip to the county recycling plant (Sofia, but... no van)\n- Earth Day \"beer garden\" with the Sustainability Office (Marcus, joking I think)\n- invite a famous climate scientist to speak (Leah says speaker fees are like $2,000+)\n\nOther:\n- Sofia graduating in May, need a new treasurer\n- Earth Day is Wed April 22\n- the greenhouse behind the science building lets student groups use it if we book 2 weeks ahead","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":5},{"type":"maxWords","max":110},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Asking for \"some ideas\"","why":"The AI returns 10 to 15 ideas with headings, which is more to sort through, not less.","fix":"Be exact: \"exactly 5 numbered ideas, one sentence each.\"","checks":["numberedItems"]},{"title":"Not giving your limits","why":"The AI brainstorms freely, so field trips, big speakers, and party ideas come back.","fix":"List them: \"On campus only, under $150, no alcohol.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Getting your old events back","why":"The AI doesn't know what you've already done, and cleanups and movie nights are its favorite ideas.","fix":"Add: \"Don't repeat a cleanup, documentary night or thrift swap. Hands-on only.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Extra chatter","why":"AI wraps lists in an intro and a \"Want me to plan one?\" closing.","fix":"Say: \"Output only the 5 ideas.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands 10-20% over.","fix":"Cap each part instead: \"each line under 15 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Bold idea names","why":"AI bolds a title for each idea, which shows up as asterisks when you paste it into the group chat.","fix":"Ask for \"plain text, no bold.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many ideas","patterns":["\\b(5|five)\\b.{0,15}ideas?"]},{"label":"Gives the limits","patterns":["\\$?150","on campus","alcohol","budget"]},{"label":"Rules out repeats","patterns":["repeat","already (did|held|done)","cleanup","documentary"]},{"label":"Asks for hands-on","patterns":["hands.?on","not (sit|watch)","active"]},{"label":"Limits length","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","one sentence","short"]}],"hint":"Brainstorming works best inside clear walls. Give the AI your hard limits, what's already been done, and how many ideas you want.","rubricLabels":["Every idea fits the limits: on campus (no field trips, like to the recycling plant), no alcohol (no beer garden), and nothing that obviously costs over $150 (like a paid speaker)","No idea repeats an event already held this year (campus cleanup, documentary night, thrift swap), and every idea is hands-on rather than sitting and watching","Outputs only the 5 ideas: no intro line, no headings, no closing question or offer to help"]}