DI Regionals Reflection
Intro
To start this off, I would first like to say that I won’t divulge certain aspects of new modifications or ideas my group will have in the provincial round at the start of April. We don’t want to give anything away to our competitors!
What Went Well
Below I’ll list my top four favourite successes in our presentation.
The Comedy
Out of everything, the comedy was probably one of my favourite aspects of our overall performance. We would always have the audience laughing and engaged or interested in what would happen next. I’ve posted the full video to my YouTube channel so I’ll put the link to that below!
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O35sXmUaw7U
Teamwork, Communication and Collaboration
My team worked well throughout the process of creation and completion. Everyone helped and did their part as well as listening to others ideas. At no point was anyone left unheard or their ideas pushed aside. At one point or another, we all gave a good idea and contributed to the final solutions.
Props
Probably the biggest and most impressive prop we worked the hardest on was the leaning Tower of Pisa. This was what our whole presentation was about so it did have to be pretty good. When the group made the 5 foot tower of awesomeness and radicalness, (that doesn’t sound grammatically correct, but just go with the flow) it also came back to the group work, as we all contributed and helped out with the tower. Thou was burnt by a ferocious glue gun in the process, but this did not deter me from creating a jaw dropping piece of art.
Being Prepared
As the tournament started to come closer, we definitely picked up the pace, practising every day we could and even working on it in our own time, for example long weekends and Saturday and Sunday. Everything paid off though, because once the presentation day finally came, we had it 100% down. Seeing how stressed other groups were, made us realize how ready we actually ended up being. I feel it showed in our overall performance and the fact that we WON SECOND PLACE!
What I’d Like to Improve On
Now, there isn’t a whole lot I can say here, however, I can give you the gist of things. The things I would like to improve on are a redesign of our TV prop and making sure we have a total success rate of the flow of some parts in our presentation. If we put our minds together I’m sure we can work something out!
How I Contributed and What I Learned in The Process
While we were great as a group, we each had specific things we excelled at. For example, my two biggest contributions I made for the group were prop making since I was the most artistic, and creating the scripts.This isn’t to say that I did these 100% on my own but I was a leader in these categories. Although, the one thing that I contributed 99% to was my leadership skills. I was the one to create schedules, and to-do lists for each member as well as get the group back on track when needed. I never sought out to be the “leader” if you would call it that, but it just happened. Overall I feel the leadership role was, and usually is, a natural fit for me.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I think that this tournament was a great overall success and I am excited to see how the assessors rate us in provincials. Stay tuned for an update!
Shout Outs
For my shout outs, I would like to thank my team, of course, Daniel, Gemma, Madeline and Emilia. I will add links to their blogs if you want to check them out!
Links:
Gemma: http://www.blog44.ca/Gemmak/
Madeline: http://www.blog44.ca/madelinej/
Emilia: http://www.blog44.ca/Emiliaw/
Marcus: http://www.blog44.ca/marcusr/