Introduction

DI is a very challenging, problem solving, diverse project with multiple presentations and multiple schools participating. DI started back just before winter break and is still happening right now. This post will focus on what we did with a basic timeline but most importantly, what I learned and the skills I gained or built on. 

The Process

The start of DI was just before winter break and not much happened, we only had a few classes of it and we were mostly focused on other projects. After winter break is when it really started to pick up, we had DI Classes everyday and we started to gain a understanding of what we had to do. We were all put into groups of 6 or 7 and those would be our groups for the rest of DI. At the beginning of January we watched some videos of DI groups that made it to nationals and Mr. Harris, our divisions teacher, started to explain some stuff about what we were doing. My group and a few others were all in the art category. We learned that we had to do a skit/play on a story we can make up but it has to include a reimagined art, visual element, kinetic art, and some more guidelines to follow. My group and I decided to make our play about a art museum robbery with a painting that is a reimagined artwork, a weapon that is kinetic and also some team choice elements that we all decided on together. Over the next few months we made a script and worked as much as we could in class but if I’m going to be honest, we didn’t get much done at all and before we knew it, the semester was over. With a change in classes, we had no in school time to work on it, which forced us to meet up outside of school. In our heads that sounded like a good idea but it was almost impossible to get everyone to show up and only had a few successful meetings. We ended up making the set on our last few days and we definitely waited to long. Before we knew it the 2 months were up and DI was just around the corner.

DI Day

For the actual day of DI we were all given a room to rehearse and keep our props and set. we had a few hours to rehearse and sort everything out but not only would we have to present our play we also would have to do a instant challenge at some point throughout the day. When our instant challenge came around we basically were just given a task but we are not actually allowed to talk about it until the project is over so I cant write about it in this post. After our instant challenge, we had about 1 hour more of rehearsals and then it was here, the big performance. We did our absolute best and ended up actually winning a award for the art category, we got 3rd place which I am proud about.

Back to the final performance, I am really proud and impressed by how fast we all worked together and made a entertaining final performance, maybe we didn’t get #1 but we still as much as we could in the few hours of rehearsal. For upcoming performances I am definitely gonna focus more on better planning and still getting work done, even if the whole group isn’t there, a effort can still be made by who does show up.

Conclusion

In conclusion, DI seemed really hard at first but ended up being quite easy in the end. With a team of 6 I would say we did very good on that final day because we had to work fast and come up with ideas while still making sure they give our play good quality. I learnt a lot of new skills during this project including time management, teamwork, communication, and leadership. Thank you for reading my Blog Post!