Hi there and welcome to my DI 2020 blog post. I once again enjoyed DI and ended up with a really good team, Malaika, Emily, Jude, Anthony, Noah and me. We decided to choose improve for our challenge and were quite happy with it at first.

To learn more about this challenge click here

The first thing we had to do was read rules of the road, which is a booklet that gives the rules of the tournaments and the challenges, then we had to read our challenge booklet where it gave our challenge debrief and the different forms we needed to complete for our challenge.

Then we got into the steps: recognize, imagine, initiate and collaborate, access, and evaluate and celebrate.

In the recognize stage we mainly set the foundation of our challenge. We came up with a team name, imagined a solution, learned the power of constraint/think inside the box, look at the scoring structure and clarify any questions.

In stage 2, imagine, we built on that foundation of stage one and started generating some ideas and started signing forms like the interference form, then we also started laying out some goals for this challenge.

Next is the initiate and collaborate stage where we started creating our sound box and research more about the demands for our challenge, we also finished the forms for our challenge and started rehearsing.

Stage 4, in this stage we looked back on our challenge details and assess what needed to get done and what had already been done.

Finally stage 5, evaluate and celebrate. In this part we take our challenge to a regional competition. Luckily the tournament was hosted at our school so our classes teams wouldn’t have had to move their props as much as other schools. The tournament was a lot of fun. I got to watch a ton of my classmates challenges as well as other schools challenges. My team’s challenge was a bit later on in the tournament although our instant challenge was earlier. My favourite part of this day was probably our instant challenge since we did really well. The it was eventually awards. the awards ceremony was a lot of fun, most of our grad 9 teams got 1st and I was happy for them, we sadly got second but got first place on our instant challenge. It turned out to be a great experience.

Now it’s time for provincials

Oh wait

What?

I just heard that it’s canceled because of covid19 and how we need to stay home and safe.

When I heard this news I was quite sad because I love DI unlike others, I also love the competition and supporting my friends in their challenges. But then I heard some amazing news. DI PLP zoom tournament. If your wondering how this would work. I didn’t have the slightest clue. But after FaceTiming with my group many times we were able to do a skit over FaceTime, yes it might be hard but we ended up doing great and it was fun to see everyone and also cheer on my other classmates. We also did an instant challenge which was a performance one where we create a skit(we we already mastered for our challenge) even though we went a bit over time we did great.

Hope you enjoyed this post. If you want to know of my prior grade 8 DI year click this link. Make sure to check out my group member’s posts as well(their links are on their names at the top of this blog post)

Stay safe and stay home.