From diflnews at floridadi.org Sat Sep 1 19:29:34 2018 From: diflnews at floridadi.org (Florida DI News) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 15:29:34 -0400 Subject: [DIFLnews] September Newsletter Message-ID: Greetings! We hope the beginning of the school year has gone smoothly for you. Challenges are now available for download! To purchase your team number and have access to the Challenges (and all the supporting materials), you can do so here. Challenge materials are $105.00 and the Florida Affiliate fee is $45.00. Destination Imagination is going paperless, so all materials will only be sent electronically. Challenge Previews, including preview videos of each Challenge, are available here. The First Look document, along with the videos for each Challenge, should make choosing a Challenge easier for you and your Team. Remember that First Look is only a synopsis. You must select your challenge in order to receive the full requirements for that challenge. We are excited to announce that Global Finals is moving! Starting with Global Finals 2019 (May 22-25), we'll be in Kansas City, MO. Lots more information will be coming, but the new facilities are outstanding with all performance sites under one roof. In addition, the plan is that each team will have a dedicated/assigned prop storage area. For more information, please read DI's announcement at DI's Blog Post. To help you in your efforts to inform your parents about DI, feel free to share this new PSA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3JlNZtVXFg&feature=youtu.be Check out the Resources at www.floridadi.org where you will find team helps such as: "Exploring Material Properties" http://floridadi.org/DI_Exploring_Material_Properties.pdf which will help your teams start to think about materials in different ways. The "Try DI IC Challenge Set" http://floridadi.org/Try%20DI%20IC%20Set%20Challenge%20Types.pdf may help your teams to decide what sort of challenge they might be interested in working on this year. Some cool events coming up this fall for our Central Florida participants: Join us for a spooky time at Orlando Public Library's "Technoween" on Sunday, October 14 from 1:30 - 4:30 at Melrose Center, Orange County Library System 101 E. Central Blvd., Orlando, FL 32801. Build a "Boney Bridge" or "Make your Monster". In November, we will be at the Orlando fairgrounds joining Maker Faire with a "Tall Tower" challenge and KEVA planks to play with. Look for more information on our facebook page in coming days. Do check out our Twitter page https://twitter.com/Diffle_DIFL where you can find jokes that Diffle (our flamingo mascot) likes as well challenge information. Our new Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/DI_Florida/# contains puzzles, challenges and information. Also check out our monthly Instant Challenge on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/FloridaDI We hope that you will send us photos of your solutions to these challenges. Remember, we're just an email away. Please do not hesitate to ask for assistance. We are here to see you succeed as Team Managers and School Coordinators! We look forward to working with each and every one of you. Erica Bowler Affiliate Director Florida Destination Imagination www.floridadi.org DIFL.info at yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 29191 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 14569 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4878 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image004.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 3706 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image005.png Type: image/png Size: 13452 bytes Desc: not available URL: