A few months ago we had the regional Destination Imagination tournament. I’ve already created a blog about this which you can find here. This time we had the provincial tournament which was basically the same but teams had improved overall from the critique from last time, or for my groups case re-doing our whole project. Provincials was the last part of DI for us this year and Seycove had an amazing year.

Every group had revising to do and that’s where my group started. For my group we started with re doing the whole project, why? Must you ask. Well if you’ve read my last DI post you’ll know that we never fully completed the challenge, you’ll know that we never actually built a hatchery so to do better in provincials and be able to compete to come in first we had to come up with a whole new story and restart our whole project. We started with finding an outer community problem that we could use, Of course with Ryan, and Alex being in our group it had to be something involving a sport. Ryan’s problem that he suggested was to create an instructional video for the Mount Seymour Little league baseball league, the video would show how to properly do field prep to ensure that no one gets hurt. Usually if not done properly there will be a lip created between the grass and gravel sections, which the ball can roll off and hit someone. With it being so close to DI we asked if we could use our new problem, our teachers said it was interesting and that we’ll have to work very hard. Me and Ryan went down to the baseball field down in Myrtle park to take pictures of the poorly kept field, we then created a model to demonstrate and show where the lip would be if poorly prepped. While Me and Alex made the model, Tatum worked on the story and script and Ryan helped Tatum use “baseball terms” to make the script more “baseball like”. Tatum also put a baseball team logo on a baseball for our impact prop, and Alex and Tatum brought a background for the presentation.
On the day of provincials I was very nervous because we hadn’t fully gone over the whole presentation with all our materiels and Ryan wouldn’t be there, Alex had two parts to play and neither Alex or I had memorized the script. It was a lot more stressful at provincials as there were a lot more teams and people, plus we had our main presentation at 11:00 am which meant we had around two hours to practise. We never fully memorized the script but we remembered about half, a lot of the time during the presentation me and Alex were looking at the audiences feet as we had put a TelePrompTer app on Alex’s iPad. At the end of the day we didn’t come in first but we where very proud of what we did, we worked hard and all tried.