Hello, and welcome to another reflection blog. Today I will be talking about the work my team has done so far for DI (destination imagination). I will talk about how we have worked together and how the process has gone so far.
But first what is DI?
DI is a collaboration project and contest for millions of kids around the world. It is a global team building competition to build our social and educational skills. It was created to inspire the next generation of innovators, leaders, and creative problem solvers. Each member gets put into a group (2-7 classmates) that they will work with the entire time. The team will be presented with a challenge that they will work to create then present live at a tournament. The whole project will mainly be student lead with minimal teacher help. Along with the main project based challenge there will also be a instant challenge that participants will be unaware of until it starts. The two activities will make a combined score based off multiple things the appraisers judge. At the very end the team with the best scores will be announced during a celebration of our work.
My team members are
Each member got to decide a topic for their challenge then got put together because of the similar topic chosen. All the main topics were: Technical, Scientific, Fine Arts, Improvisational, and Engineering. I chose Scientific because It seemed to be the most interesting to me and also I don’t much like the other topics. I wasn’t sure If I should do Scientific or Technical but I decided to do what I knew more about. Now that I know what the challenge is for Scientific I’m glad I chose it I really enjoy it.
The Technical challenge we have to do is creating a story with multiple characters finding a mysterious object. The story has to incorporate at least one micro world. The mysterious object must be seen clearly from 25 feet away. Our story and creative design will be judged for originality, creativity, quality, effort, and workmanship.
Each group has different assigned managers in them. Everyone has their own role to help out the group, mine is time manager! As time manager I am in charge of making sure my team is on task and keeping up. I like this job because I get to yell at my team if they aren’t on task! Also during instant challenges it is my duty to ask the appraisers how much time we have left while working on the challenge.
My group plans on meeting up more often out of school to get things done. We have met up once out of school at Daniels house but it was just me and Keira who came. We ended up getting the whole script done and planned out what we are going to do for the background. I would say that meeting was very productive and helpful. We have planned a couple phone calls and are going to meet up even more soon.
Here are some links you can press to understand more about this project.
In the very start of this project to understand microscopy better we made a file of links to sites to read about microscopy. I’m not sure if a lot of us read them but I thought this was a really good idea to understand it better and help our group understand also.
And this brings us to the end of this post. I am very excited to go to the tournament as long as my group gets together a good performance. Thank you for reading, and wish me luck! Have a good day, bye for now.