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Please understand that there may be changes. The formatting issues are obvious. This should also be posted on the InDIana website. The link for that site is located in the list on the left side of the blog/page.

Side Trip Help

Discovery Middle School Floor Plan

Performance Sites:

Challenge A: Obstacles, of Course! Band Room
Challenge B: Hit or Myth LGI
Challenge C: DI've Got a Secret FACS
Challenge D: Chorific! Rooms 103-105

Instant Challenge will be upstairs. If you need to have access to the elevator, please email me so we have the key available. www.jennitajoy@hotmail.com

Performance Site Information

Following you will find information concerning specifics of the performance sites at Discovery Middle School. Please share this information with your teams.

Challenge A: Obstacles, of Course!

Competition will be an a Band Room. The floor surface will be commercial carpet with very low, tight pile. Remember that all props must fit through a standard doorway. Prop room will be an adjacent choir room.

Challenge B: Hit or Myth

Competition will be in a large lecture hall type classroom. The floor surface will be commercial carpet with very low tight pile. Remember that all props must fit through a standard doorway. Prop room will be close by, but some moving of props will be necessary.

Challenge C: DI've Got a Secret!

Competition will be in a classroom space. The floor surface will be commercial carpet with very low tight pile. Remember that all props must fit through a standard doorway. Prop room will be located across the hall from the prep and performance areas.

Challenge D: Chorific!

Competition will be in a classroom space. The floor surface will be commercial carpet with very low tight pile. Remember that all items taken into the studio must be carried by the team. There are no carts allowed to transport materials. The studio must be cleaned of all materials and trash before the team moves to the performance area. The team is responsible to remove all unused materials out of the school when they leave. We will not be responsible for trash that is produced by improv teams in the building of their solutions.

Families and supporters are free to help teams transport their scenery and materials to and from vehicles and to and from the prop rooms. This applies to all challenges.

Tournament Invitation

Tournament Schedule

The Tournament Schedule will be emailed to the contacts I have on my email list. If you are not one of those people the schedule will be posted on the www.wesc.k12.in.us/di website soon.

Press Release Template

I put this picture here for a reason. This template has some directions imbedded in the text. Remember that you need to put your information in the press release and delete the directions. And..... this picture just made me laugh. I want a picture of the reaction of the person who came to pick the cake up. Do you think that Suzanne ever saw it? I hope that the person who baked the cake was better than the cake decorater at following directions.

Here is a template of a press release for the Northern Regional:


GOOD NEWS

CONTACT: Your name
Your phone number
Your e-mail address
(CONTACT INFO IS VERY IMPORTANT!)

(Feb. XX, 2008 – DATE YOU ISSUED RELEASE HERE)

Destination? ImagiNation!

Local team of very creative (and smart!) youth
Wins a chance to compete in DI tournament

YOUR TOWN, YOUR STATE (ALL CAP LETTERS, STATE ABBREVIATED) – Weeks of teamwork and some very creative brainpower have brought success to (number) (your city or county)-area youngsters who have earned the right to take part in the Destination ImagiNation Regional Tournament (DATE).
“It’s been a fun, tough, exciting and rewarding time for these kids as they worked their way through several levels of competition to win a spot at our Regional Tournament,” said (Name), (AD) (RD) for (Name of team or location/town). “They are proud of their accomplishments, and they should be, because the competition leading to the Tournament is fierce.”
(NAME) said if the local team scores big at the Tournament level, then they earn one of the biggest prizes of all – the right to compete in Global Finals, to be held on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in May.
Destination ImagiNation is currently active in all 50 states and in 40 countries, with more than 12,000 teams supported by more than 40,000 volunteers. The 2007-2008 program season marks the 25th anniversary of DI.
Destination ImagiNation’s Global Finals marks the culmination of a year of problem solving, innovation and creativity. It brings team winners representing their state, province, or their country to compete together at the annual international creative problem solving Tournament.
“Destination ImagiNation Global Finals is, simply put, the largest creative problem solving and critical thinking competition of its kind held anywhere. For four days Global Finals become the place on Planet Earth where creativity is not only accepted, but it is expected,” said (NAME). “We hope our local teams wow everyone at the Tournament level and then get ready to go to Globals!”
DESTINATION IMAGINATION BACKGROUND
Each year in the fall, Destination ImagiNation’s creative problem solving experts create and issue five exciting and stimulating Challenges designed to test the teamwork, creativity and critical thinking skills of young people involved all over the world. Destination ImagiNation’s creative problem solving Challenges comply with National Education Standards. They are designed by a staff of educators and other professionals who have helped millions of young people enhance their critical thinking skills in a fun and nurturing team setting since DI was founded.
More than 8,000 volunteer adults have signed up to be Team Managers for almost 350,000 young people taking part in DI Challenges during the 2007-2008 Team Challenge process.
“Taking the DI challenge can be one of the most rewarding and fulfilling life-long experiences a boy or girl can have,” said Rusty McCarty, Vice President of Creative Programming for Destination ImagiNation Inc., a 501c3 non-profit organization based in Glassboro, NJ. “The DI team approach to problem solving, in our highly-competitive and challenging culture, nurtures capabilities and values in kids that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. This is a time that will be cherished and stay with them forever!”
The 17-week DI problem solving program is divided into steps that help young people work and grow together as a team, learning to nurture mutual self respect while enhancing their own self-confidence and problem solving skills. The set up of the Challenges is open ended, allowing for an endless variety of solutions and a sense of accomplishment for the team.
The young people can choose the Challenge that interests them the most. All the Challenges are designed to develop participants’ critical thinking and creative problem solving skills. The teams are led by supportive and caring facilitators, who are either parents or adult volunteers.
This year’s DI Challenges include:
• Obstacles, Of Course!
• Hit or Myth
• DI’ve Got a Secret!
• Chorific!
• SWITCH!
Each of the Challenges offers a different focus, such as mathematics, technical design and construction, experimentation, theater arts, social studies, research, story development, architecture, geography, structural engineering and other disciplines requiring critical thinking skills necessary to be successful in tomorrow’s world.
For more information, please visit www.destinationimagination.org.
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Structure Challenge Resources

There are two terrific resources for those of you that are team managers for a structure team in the files section of the dini email list. The two power point presentations explain in words and pictures how to do the Switch! challenge. It will help you understand the challenge and see what a structure tester looks like.



Victor Tom, who has managed structure teams for many years and is the man who brought Card-DI-ology to Harvard University last year developed the power point presentations.



Please check it out. Click on the link to the dini email list to the left of this post go to the files section.