QUICK LOOKS AT TEAM CHALLENGES 2008-2009 SEASON

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Team Challenges

QUICK LOOKS AT TEAM CHALLENGES 2008-2009 SEASON

Challenge A

Educational Focus:

Technical Design and Construction, Innovation and Design Process, Research, Experimentation, Strategic Planning, Theater Arts, Teamwork

Imagine that you and a few friends are given a project to complete in an eight week period, without help from anyone outside the team... The project involves designing and constructing a technical device that must move from point A to point B under its own power. Imagine that you must also write, produce, and star in a story that involves the technical device. You need to make props, costumes, and everything else, and package it into an eight-minute Presentation. Now imagine that you and your teammates are 10 years old… and you are hearing the thunderous applause of an enthusiastic audience as you present your completed project!

If you think this is far-fetched, you haven’t been to a Destination ImagiNation® Tournament! Our teams work on – and solve – Team Challenges like these, completely on their own.

Why Team Challenges? Our Team Challenges encourage development of Creative Problem Solving techniques, teamwork and creative process over a sustained period of time, usually eight to twelve weeks. Our Challenges are designed to be:

• Fun to solve
• Academically-based (corresponding to education standards) and include a research component
• Focused on one or more of the following areas:
  • Technical/Mechanical Design
  • Structural/Architectural Design
  • Theatrical/Literary/Fine Arts
  • Scientific Exploration
  • Improvisation.

Each year teams of two to seven members select one of five competitive Challenges. With the guidance – but not help – of a Team Manager (who serves as facilitator, not coach), the team creates an action plan and works together to create everything needed for their Presentation.

Educational Focus

Theater Arts (Play writing, Scenic Design and Construction, Performing), Animal Science (Zoosemiotics), Research, Teamwork

The Destination:

Where This Challenge Will Take You!
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 – creature style – and let your audience know what the buzz is all about.

Points of Interest! Your team will:

• Create and present a theatrical Presentation with an original Story that demonstrates creature communication.
• Learn about one Featured Creature and two real methods it uses to communicate.
• Design and build a Costume to communicate a message sent by your Featured Creature.
• Construct one or more three-dimensional set pieces that depict a real-life habitat for your Featured Creature.
• Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the Presentation.
  

Playwriting, Literature, Fine Arts/Theater Arts (Music, Choreography), Technical Design and Construction, and Design Process, Teamwork

The Destination:

Where This Challenge Will Take You!
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!

Create a live Music ViDIo that Dramatically Retells a piece of Literature.
Integrate Music and team-created Lyrics into the Music ViDIo.
Dramatically portray a Character from the chosen piece of Literature.
Create and integrate Choreography into the ViDIo.
Create and present a Grand Entrance or Grand Exit using Technical Methods.
Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the Presentation.

Educational Focus:

Improvisational Acting, Story Development, Theater Arts, Team Work, Technical Innovation

The Destination:

Where This Challenge Will Take You!
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!

Challenge E

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Educational Focus:

Structural Engineering, Construction, Research, Innovation and Design Process, Mathematics, Theater Arts, Teamwork

 

The Destination: Where This Challenge Will Take You!

The Statue of Liberty dancing the tango? 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 artistic media. So excite your ImagiNation by seeing things from A New Angle!

Design, build, and test a two-part Structure made completely of wood and glue.
Create and present a Story about the merging of two forms of art to create a new form of artistic expression.
Create and present a merged Art form.
Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the Presentation.

projectOUTREACH^®

Focus:

Service Learning, Research, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Youth Empowerment, Teamwork, Marketing, Communication, Project Management

The Destination: Where This Challenge Will Take You!

Points of Interest!

The projectOUTREACH Challenge has two DIstinct components. The first component is the Project that is created and implemented in order to solve the real problem. The second component is the Tournament elements that are required to culminate and showcase the Project.

Note:

This Challenge may not be available in all areas.