Destination Imagination…

Is an international challenge that unfortunately, I have fallen I love with. There are many different challenges this year including maze craze, change of tune, drop zone, unlikely attraction, treasure.        This is a past years performance to make it more clear for you.

Hello fellow out of the box thinkers! I just finished DI regionals, and my team came out 3rd out of 7teams. I’m pretty proud of us (Gaby, Emersson, Ben)….

 

My challenge was called Maze Craze, we had to build a maze traveler to navigate a random maze, and integrate its journey into a theatrical presentation. Along with that, our maze traveler must transform a prop, and remove an object from the maze, this must also be integrated into the storyline.

We decided to build a robot on wheels, it would be remote control, and we would have created it, because one of my group members said they knew how. Unfortunately, this group member only knew the basics, and it wasn’t an accomplishable goal. Then we decided to just buy a remote control robot, and then modify it. We bought a remote control digger, and took all of its accessories off, and stripped it down to the bare bones. We then built an arm for it, for the object removal, and built on top of the original arm for a “shovel” to pour in the ingredients for elephant toothpaste in to a bottle, for the object transformation.

What are the prop transformation and object removal? – they are challenges that our maze traveler ”demos” has to overcome in the story, and physical maze. The first one, the prop transformation is exactly as it sounds, we needed to transform a prop in the designated “event square” using “technical methods” and it must be seen from twenty feet away.

We decided to use chemistry as our technical method, Demos (the maze traveler) would go to the event square, dump the ingredients into a container which was already there. It would turn into a bubbly mess, and definitely change in appearance. However, on the day of we tested it before the challenge, and it began to leak! We tried to patch it up with green duct tape, but it wouldn’t work, and we ended up just pouring it into the other container, seriously cutting down on technical points for us. Even though we poured it in, it still didn’t work as much as we had expected it to, it didn’t explode very much, and the paper we put down underneath, made the prop not touch the floor, and therefore it did not count as successfully transformed.

Coins Shop Wallet Magnet

The object removal was where we had to remove an object from the other event square, and carry it out of the maze. We used a magnet on the maze traveler to pick up a magnet attached to the object. On the day of, it actually worked, the magnet lowered and it picked it up at only three drops which is ok for our group. The only thing wrong with it was that a lot of other groups also used a magnet, and it was not very original, or creative.

How did these all work in a story? You may be thinking. Would you like to find out? If so, click on the link and read our script! (Remember, the key is attached to a magufor the object removal, and the vines will explode into a sticky acidic mess)!

I would love to tell you to put suggestions for my group down below in the comments, but I’m sorry, that’s considered cheating. So please don’t! Please share any stories, or interesting experiences you have had similar to this.

And as always, be your own inspiration!