From diflnews at floridadi.org Wed Aug 14 22:30:59 2019 From: diflnews at floridadi.org (Florida DI News) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 18:30:59 -0400 Subject: [DIFLnews] Florida Destination Imagination August Newsletter Message-ID: Greetings! We hope you have had relaxing summer and are gearing up for an exciting school year including Florida Destination Imagination. We are happy to announce that Timothy Herlihy, Jr. has joined us on the Florida Affiliate Board. He is our Recording Secretary, and is trying really hard to educate our older board members on using Social Media. Our participant's safety is of paramount importance to Destination Imagination (DI) as well as Florida DI. DI has published a Youth Protection Policy (YPP) document, that all of our volunteers will be required to acknowledge. This document is available at DI Youth Protection Policy . For other interested adults we have Youth Protection Information for Parents . As part of this initiative, all Team Managers will be required to have a background check. We are in the process of defining what will be accepted as part of our requirement in Florida, and will provide at least one company to do a check as well as some alternate acceptable methods. Florida DI is ready to help you prepare for the coming season. To get you started, visit our website at www.floridadi.org or our Florida DI facebook page . These sites will provide you with the most up-to-date information about Destination Imagination in Florida. You can also go to www.destinationimagination.org for general information about DI as well as to purchase your team number. Check out our Challenge Previews at 2019-20 Challenge Previews . From there you can view a video about each challenge and a short preview. First Look will give you more in-depth information about each challenges. Remember that the First Look is only a synopsis. You must select your challenge in order to receive the full requirements for that challenge. The full challenges are available now. To Start a Team, purchase your Team Number ($105 each). There will also be a $100.00 added Florida DI affiliate fee. Make sure that you enter a Team Manager as soon as you can, even if it is yourself. That will enable you will receive an e-mail containing your Team Number(s) and instructions to access online training and materials, including the Roadmap. At this time, there are several New Manager trainings available, and shortly there will be a Child Protection training module available that all Team Managers will need to complete to be certified as a Team Manager. The Roadmap is your guide as you navigate your Team through the DI Challenge Experience to Tournaments. The Roadmap contains Instant Challenges and activities to use during your meetings. You can adapt practice challenges to utilize materials you have on hand. If you devise a really cool Instant Challenge, we would love to hear of it. All materials will be only available in digital format. Destination Imagination Inc. (DII) will no longer mail printed materials to teams. This was done for environmental reasons as well as financial. Our 2020 tournament will be held at Park Maitland School, Maitland, Florida on March 28, 2019. We thank Park Maitland School for their continued support of Florida DI. Not sure yet about starting a team? You are invited to join us at upcoming events at Melrose Center (Orlando) for "Technoween" October 13, or the Orlando Maker Faire Novmber 9 & 10 to "TRY DI". Can't wait that long? Contact us about holding your own "Try DI"event. You provide a space and some participants and if we can work out volunteers, we will bring materials for you to try your hand at one of our Instant Challenges (and talk about our STEAM and project based educational experience!). Make sure you visit our Twitter page where you can find jokes that Diffle (our flamingo mascot) likes, as well challenge information. Our Instagram page has puzzles, challenges and information. Check out our Florida DI facebook page for our monthly Instant Challenge. These are great practice for teams and fun for others. We hope that you will send us photos of your solutions to these challenges. We want everyone to have an awesome start to the new season. So, is there anything Florida DI can provide to assist you in starting teams? We can get you posters, flyers, stickers, PowerPoint presentations, DI introduction videos, etc. (If you check out MARKETING, in the STORE you can get an idea of what is available). These materials can be used for your Registration/Sign-up, Orientation, Open House, Meet and Greet and/or other Back to School Events. Just drop us a note, and we'll make arrangements to get you the materials. If you would like us to come to do an event, please let me know. We have long time DI participants who live in different areas of the state, so we might be able to work something out. Remember, we're just an email away at difl.info at yahoo.com 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. Best Wishes! 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: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4878 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image006.png Type: image/png Size: 29371 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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