NEWS FLASH!!!!! Our IC night scheduled for December 1 will be rescheduled.
The Vestals are sick and cannot be here to carry on their plans. Candle
orders are still due Wednesday, December 2.
Teams have been assigned and we are ready to go. We currently are having a
candle sale and
looking forward to having a good response to it.
Teams are choosing challenges. Here they are so far:
MES
Hill Challenge C
Smith Challenge B
Siler Challenge C
Rising Stars
MMS
Petty/Barnhill Challenge A
Sheppard Challenge D
Nakutis,K Challenge B
Tyler Challenge C
Schreiber Challenge E
Nakutis,C Challenge ?
MHS
Black Challenge C
Rhodes/Adkins Challenge E
Candle sale is currently going on! That will help us to participate in all
of the activities!
Instant Challenge Night December 1 at 6:30.
Check out www.idodi.org for more information! Check out the new challenges
that are posed on the
site!
THIS YEAR'S CHALLENGES!!!! Check them out!
Challenge A: DIrect DIposit
Educational Focus: Engineering, Cost/Benefit Analysis, Innovation & Design
Process, Technical Design
& Construction, Experimentation, Mathematics, Communication, Theater Arts,
Teamwork
The Destination: Where This Challenge Will Take You!
You can deliver a pizza. You can deliver the news. In the field of
construction, you can be delivered
from the brink of disaster or deliver important materials that build towards
a goal. But can you
deliver construction materials to targets you cannot see? Each piece of
construction material has
value, and some more than others. To become rich you need to decide how to
effectively deliver
them to the current construction project! Your team will have to consider
which choices will earn the
most reward as you try to deliver your construction materials over a barrier
to the optimum targets
on the construction site. Whatever you decide, you’ll have to work quickly,
because the clock ticking!
Points of Interest! Your team will:
Present a team-created story about making a decision.
Design and build a piece of equipment that delivers
supply Objects over a Barrier to
Targets.
Consider risk versus reward to increase your Object
score through strategic delivery to
job site Targets.
Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the
Presentation
Challenge B: DI®-Bot
Educational Focus: Structural Engineering, Robotic Technology, Research,
Technical Design and
Construction, Science, Theater Arts, Teamwork
The Destination:
Where This Challenge Will Take You!
Robots – doing our
chores and serving our
every need! What could be better? Robotic Technology has changed our lives
and made our dreams a
reality. Gaming systems, cell phones, cars and factories all use Robotic
Technology. What will
Robotic Technology accomplish next? How will our lives change because of it?
You get to decide and
use your knowledge of Robotic Technology to show us what may happen
Points of Interest! Your team will:
Learn about Robotic Technology and the changes it
creates.
Create an original Story which envisions and shows
how at least one character’s life
may be changed by Robotic Technology.
Design, create, and integrate a device called DI-BOT,
which completes a motion or
task, into the Story.
Create a method to change at least one prop or set
piece, or part(s) of the prop or set
piece, into DI-BOT, or a part of DI-BOT.
Create a scene change that enhances the Presentation
by providing an effective
transitional link from one scene to another.
Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the
Presentation
Challenge C: You’re Gonna Flip!
Educational Focus: Teamwork, Storytelling, Puppet Design, Construction
Design, Puppetry, Theater
Arts, Visual Arts
The Destination:
Where This Challenge Will Take You!
A man lives only for
money. Flip! After a visit by
three ghosts, he discovers how to love people. That’s Ebenezer Scrooge. A
young Kansas girl feels so
unloved at home that she wants to run away. Flip! Over the rainbow, she
learns to appreciate the love
she has in her own backyard. That’s Dorothy’s story. Our understanding of the
world can Flip from
one view to another. Theater, books and art are full of such turnabouts. Now
your team gets to create
your own Story with a Flip! What’s better than using a team-created puppet
and a piece of Live Visual
Art to help tell your Story? You’re Gonna Flip over this Challenge!
Points of Interest! Your team will:
Present an Original Story dramatizing how a Character
experiences a Flip, or a change
of point of view, about someone or something.
Design, construct, and feature at least one Puppet as
a character in the Story.
Create a piece of Live Visual Art that is to be
completely produced during the
Presentation.
Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the
Presentation.
Challenge D: Do or DI®
Educational Focus: Improvisational acting, story development, teamwork,
research skills
The Destination:
Where This Challenge Will Take You!
Going… Going… Gone? A
Threatened Thing is
in danger of extinction, and YOU are its only hope for survival! With a Stock
Character and an
Unimpressive Superpower, can you save the Great Barrier Reef, the Giant
Panda, or even landline
telephones? But wait...do all threatened things need to be saved or is it
better if some go the way of
the dinosaur? You decide to Do or DI!
Points of Interest! Your team will:
Create a five-minute Improvisational Skit about a
Threatened Thing in danger of
extinction. This must be done in a seven-minute Preparation Time period at
the Tournament.
Present a Skit using a Stock Character randomly
selected from a list of stock characters
that the team has previously researched.
Incorporate props and/or scenery to enhance the Skit.
Integrate a randomly selected Unimpressive Superpower
that is revealed during the
Skit.
Challenge E: Breaking DI® News
Educational Focus: Structural Engineering, Materials Science, International
Relations, Research,
Innovation and Design Process, Mathematics, Theater Arts, Teamwork.
The Destination:
Where This Challenge Will Take You!
Extra, Extra! Read all
about it! DI teams make
headlines building a structure that holds the most and weighs the least.
Choose this Challenge and
your team will reduce your props, reuse a story and recycle a newspaper all
to prove that you can do
more with less!
Points of Interest! Your team will:
Design, build, and test a Structure made only of
newsprint and glue.
Reduce the props and scenery used in the Presentation
to fit inside a 30in x 24in x 48in
(76.20cm x 60.96cm x 121.92cm) container.
Reuse a story about a Newsworthy Event in a nation
other than your own.
Recycle newsprint by using it creatively in a costume
or prop.
Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the
Presentation.
projectOUTREACH®: Band Together
Educational Focus: Service Learning, Research, Youth Empowerment, Teamwork,
Marketing,
Communication, Project Management
The Destination:
Where This Challenge Will Take You!
Are you ready to make a
difference in your
community? Then fuel your passion and ignite your vision! In this Challenge,
you’ll design and
implement a community-centered Project, and you’ll use music to help you
effect positive change.
So band together, select a community need to address, and reach out with
music to change our
world!
Points of Interest! Your team will:
Identify community needs and use creative problem
solving tools to select at least one
need.
Design and implement a team Project in your community
that creatively uses music to
address the need(s) you selected.
Compile an Album to document the Project.
Create and perform an entertaining Presentation that
informs the audience about your
Project.
Include a Multi-sensory Aesthetic Experience in your
Presentation.
Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the
Presentation
Rising Stars!® Weighty News
Educational Focus: Architecture and Structure, News Reporting, Research,
Mathematics, Performing
in front of an audience, Team problem solving, Teamwork
The Destination:
Where This Challenge Will Take You!
News here, news there...news, news everywhere! A Structure has been
discovered. It is made of
newspaper and tape. What could it be? Why is it here? What does it look like?
How strong is it? How
can it be used? So many questions! Maybe if we see a newscast about it, the
reporters will have some
answers. Let’s watch and see what’s new in the news!