Destination ImagiNation
Last Chance to Sign Up for Destination ImagiNation Team Competition
Teams are now forming to participate in the exciting creative problem solving program, Destination ImagiNation. The sign-up form is below. Turn in your completed form to the office. Sign ups will be accepted until December 4th. Students can put together their own team, or sign-up and be placed on a team. Each team will need one adult to be a facilitator for the team. What exactly is DI? In Destination ImagiNation, two to seven member teams focus on finding solutions to two separate types of Challenges: Team Challenges and Instant Challenges. Then they present their solutions to Appraisers in Tournament-style settings. By working together to develop solutions, participants push the limits of their imaginations to better themselves and best their competition. It is a great way to expand an interest, like art, robotics, or performing and find ways to incorporate it with other skills and interests.
The 2010 DI regional and state tournaments will be held here at Hadley! The regional tournament will be held on March 6 and the state tournament will be held on April 10. Last year we had two Hadley teams compete at state, and one of them placed first in the state, and competed at the Global tournament and placed 15th out of over 60 teams!
To find out more about Destination ImagiNation check out the web site: www.destinationimagination.org
or contact Diana Dignan, Hadley DI coordinator at 630-469-1466.
Click here for Destination ImagiNation sign up form
What is Destination ImagiNation?
In Destination ImagiNation, two- to seven-member teams focus on finding solutions to two separate types of Challenges: Team Challenges and Instant Challenges. Then they present their solutions to Appraisers in Tournament-style settings. Our Regional tournament will be held March 21st at Hadley!
By working together to develop solutions, participants push the limits of their imaginations to better themselves and best their competition. Last year our Hadley balsa structure team took first place at the regional tournament and first place at the state tournament and was able to represent Illinois at the Global Tournament in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Teams spend several months working on the Team Challenge of their choice. Each of the five competitive Team Challenges, A through E, has a different educational and creative focus:
A: Operation Cooperation Educational Focus:
Technical Design and Construction, Innovation and Design Process, Research, Experimentation, StrategicPlanning, Theater Arts, Teamwork People use machines to help them every day. But can you imagine machines helping other machines – working together to get the job done? Your team will make Operation Cooperation a reality when you create two machines that cooperate to help each other. Work will be twice as easy, and play will be twice as much fun!
B: Instinct Messaging
Educational Focus: Theater Arts (Play writing, Scenic Design and Construction, Performing), Animal Science (Zoosemiotics), Research, Teamwork
Have you ever wondered what animals “say” to each other? Dr. Doolittle knew! We humans communicate in many ways - we talk, we use gestures, symbols and devices. We can even use a mobile phone to text message our BFF ;-). Animals don’t communicate by using phones or computers, but they manage to get their message across anyway – loud and clear! They use sounds, color, movement and other tools to warn, inform and network. So get ready to create and communicate – animal style – and let your audience know what the buzz is all about.
C: ViDIo Lit Hits
Educational Focus: Playwriting, Literature, Fine Arts/Theater Arts (Music, Choreography), Technical Design and Construction, and Design Process, Teamwork
Captain Hook dances the Jitterbug? Lady Macbeth sings the Blues? What?! That’s right! You’ll bring literature alive as you retell it in your original Live Music ViDIo. You can make your grand entrance or leave the audience begging for more with your spectacular exit! Whether you’re doing the Twist or singing Ragtime music from the turn of the century, you will make the world of literature fun and exciting - you’ll have the audience dancing out the doors with a song in their hearts!
D: Private DI
Educational Focus: Improvisational Acting, Story Development, Theater Arts, Team Work, Technical Innovation Grab some popcorn, dim the lights and make yourself comfortable; you are about to be amazed, mystified, and entertained! Your sleuth is about to solve a superstitious mystery! Using three film genres, a tantalizingly technical Superstition Origin Detector and - at the last cliff-hanging minute - a super surprise, your sleuth will lead us on a wild adventure that will have us on the edge of our seats!
E: A New Angle!
Educational Focus: Structural Engineering, Construction, Research, Innovation and Design Process, Mathematics, Theater Arts, Teamwork
The Statue of Liberty playing in a rock band? Mona Lisa’s smile in origami? It’s fun to look at things from a new angle! Now you get to design, create and combine a two-part structure that has angled sides, and then see how much weight it will hold. You’ll also create a new Art form by merging two different Art forms. So excite your ImagiNation by seeing things from A New Angle!
In addition to the five competitive challenges, we also have a new community service challenge:
projectOUTREACH® Challenge: Take Charge!
Educational Focus: Service Learning, Research, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Youth Empowerment, Teamwork, Marketing, Communication, Project Management
You can have it both ways! Now is the time to take charge of your school and make a difference. Rally your peers and to dive into food groups to encourage and to get moving more. Get ready to serve it up and work it out with this first season of Destination ImagiNation projectOUTREACH
The competitive challenge teams will also present an Instant Challenge at the tournament. The Destination ImagiNation Instant Challenge requires teams to engage in rapid-fire critical thinking. At Tournaments, teams receive a Challenge and the materials with which to solve it. They must think on their feet by applying appropriate skills to produce a solution in a period of just five to eight minutes. While Team Challenges build long-term problem solving and teamwork skills, Instant Challenges provide an exciting, impromptu creative experience for competing teams. By practicing Instant Challenges during the course of the season, students can increase their improvisational skills and train their minds to work quickly!
Teams meet together after school at Hadley, and at team member homes as needed. Each team must have at least one adult team manager to act as a facilitator. Parents are encouraged to participate as managers or co-managers. Training is provided. Meetings are arranged to work with your team manager's schedule.
For more information, please check out the main Destination ImagiNation web site: www.idodi.org or contact the Hadley DI coordinator, Diana Dignan, at 630-469-1466 or email at radignan@ameritech.net.
Destination ImagiNation
You've heard of spelling bees, quiz bowls, robotics competitions and science fairs. In fact, there is probably a special event for every subject taught at school. Well, Destination ImagiNation is none of those things – and all of those things! Destination ImagiNation is a place where kids take what they know and what they are good at and learn to apply it to solve challenges, working together and cooperatively with a team and pushing the limits of imagination to best not their competition, but themselves.
The Hadley PTA is once again sponsoring this great extra-curricular opportunity for all students.
There are five different challenges, Building and Architecture, Improv, Technical Design and Construction, Theatre Arts/Fine Arts, and Theatre Arts/Science. The student teams, made up of between 4 and 7 students, choose one of these to work on as a Long Term Challenge in December and work on solving it through January and February. The best part of DI is that all the ideas and work on the challenges is done by the team. No parents or teachers can work on the challenge solution. The adults can teach the team about something if they ask, but the team alone solves the problem. Teams also practice short-term problem solving with an Instant Challenge that gives the team only a few minutes to solve a random challenge.
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