[DIFLnews] Florida Destination Imagination Newsletter

[Florida DI News]

Hi All,

I hope you had a relaxing summer and are looking forward to another exciting
DI year.

 

TOURNAMENT:  Our tournament will be held Saturday, March 10, 2018 at Park
Maitland School, Maitland Florida.  Please note that this date is much
earlier than last year so plan accordingly.  (We want teams to be able to
complete their chosen challenge to present to us!)  

 

CHALLENGE PURCHASE:  Challenges will be available for download on September
1.  For returning teams, be aware that DIHQ has changed the challenge
ordering process.  The DI membership fee will be $105 for all challenges
(including Rising Stars).  We are told that price will be in effect for the
next 3 years.

 

Team managers will have access to the requirements of all the challenges,
but may only select 1 challenge to download.  You  would be allowed to
switch challenges just 1 time.  You may choose to have only electronic
copies of materials or have a printed set mailed to you.  You will only
receive your selected challenge (along with Rules of the Road, and Roadmap).

 

The Florida Affiliate fee of $45 remains the same and will be collected at
the time you order your membership.  This covers our affiliate operating
costs as well as tournament expenses (medals, Instant Challenge supplies,
etc.)

 

MATERIAL SUPPLIES:  Annette Rogers of the Georgia affiliate puts together
boxes of the material supplies listed in the RoadMap for the year's IC
practice activities as a convenience for their teams,  with these Kit
modifications: "We do not include the ream of paper (because of shipping
costs), the towels, hand towels, wash cloths, Hula Hoop nor yardstick.  We
add a roll of masking tape, a pencil sharpener, a glue stick and a
creativity sticker. We include only a pair of adult (TM) scissors in the
kits. We only provide 1 pack of markers (Crayola)."

The materials lists are all commonly available supplies.    They charge $35
which is close to the cost of materials. She will list the kits for sale on
the Georgia webpage:  www.gadi.org <http://www.gadi.org>  under the SHOP
icon.  She is going to try to fit supplies into a medium rate flat Priority
Mail box, so there would be an extra $13 shipping.  Again, all of the
supplies are commonly available materials, but if you are looking for
convenience, this may be an option of interest to you.

 

TRAINING:  We hope to have virtual Team Manager trainings this year.  My
thought is to conduct short, monthly  sessions.  If you have suggestions of
days/times to conduct these, we would appreciate the input.  Team Managers
will also be invited to attend electronic Georgia trainings as they occur.
Other Team Manager training is available through DI University in the
Resource area at  <http://www.destinationimagination.org>
www.destinationimagination.org .  California DI also has some great training
that you can access through their website.  Volunteer training may also be
done virtually, near  tournament time with final training the day of the
tournament.

 

FOR FUN:  Our design the Florida pin and tee shirt offer will be open until
December 1.  Anyone may submit design ideas.  Please go to our website
<http://www.floridadi.org> www.floridadi.org for further information.  A
designing session might be a fun team activity to practice the creative
process.

 

The challenges look really interesting this year.  We are looking forward to
the Musical Maze runners hunting Treasure at amusement Attractions who are
Making Friends while Dropping Weights on their Unfolding Storage Device.  

 

Cheers!

 

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