From diflnews at floridadi.org Fri Aug 28 17:55:05 2020 From: diflnews at floridadi.org (Florida DI News) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 13:55:05 -0400 Subject: [DIFLnews] Florida Destination Imagination References: <001e01d67d64$5d559620$1800c260$.ref@yahoo.com> Message-ID: Greetings! As you are experiencing, this school year will be a very different landscape than ever before. Destination Imagination, Inc. (DII) has prided itself on encouraging 21st Century skills in students, and this year will be a perfect use of those skills. In order to accommodate distance and virtual learning, DII is reworking all of our challenges to be solved and presented virtually. As you might imagine, the challenge is to accommodate teams worldwide. All of our training and guides are also being reworked to reflect the changes. That being said, DII plans to offer all 7 of our challenges this year. Virtual Instant Challenges will also be offered. If conditions change enough that gatherings are safe, we will have the option of on-site Instant Challenges and Celebration of Creativity. If allowed, we will hold our celebration at Park Maitland School on Saturday, March 27, 2021. The Technical, Scientific, Fine Arts, Service Learning, and Early Learning Challenges will be released on November 1, 2020. The Engineering and Improvisational Challenges will be released on December 1, 2020. Challenge Sneak Peaks are available for some of our challenges and will be updated as more information becomes available. Check back for updates! Our Technical Challenge will ask your team to go on an adventure in a video game, using technical methods to design a team-created tool to win an ultimate prize. A Scientific Law will be broken in our Scientific Challenge. Your team will create a documentary showing what the world would witness when a scientific law is broken. Music Video, anyone? For our Fine Arts Challenge, your team will mash together music and literature to create a music video. For our Service Learning Challenge, your team will create a podcast that tells a story to highlight the amazing project you designed to meet a community need. Our Rising Stars (early learners preschool through 2nd grade, non-competitive) will create a picture book about critters going on an adventure and share it in a team-created video. If you want to get started prior to November 1st, a collection of activities and accompanying videos have been put together for teams who have purchased their Team Number(s) for 2020-21. Topics include: * Improv Skills for Instant Challenge * Storytelling 101 * Team Choice Elements: A Deep Dive * The Creative Process: Soup to Nuts Once you have purchased your number, you can contact Florida DI to gain access to all of the resources available. As DII remains committed to the safety of our children, DII is administering the Background Check process. When you purchase your team number, there will also be a requirement to purchase a background check from Sterling Volunteers. There will also be an optional opportunity to purchase Team Manager liability insurance from NFHS for a discounted price due to our new partnership with this organization. For more information about DII this season, you can check out their FAQ page. On our local level, we are pleased to welcome Anesha Warner to the Florida DI board. She brings great enthusiasm and ideas to help us promote our program. Check out our Florida DI facebook page for Instant Challenges. These are great practice for teams and fun for others. DII has been offering a variety of Virtual Instant Challenges, so you can get a sense of what a virtual challenge can involve. We hope that you will send us photos of your solutions to these challenges! Also visit our updated FLDI webpage. Remember, we're just an email away at difl.info at yahoo.com Please do not hesitate to ask for assistance. Our best wishes for your continued health and safety, and we look forward to working with you to provide your children with a great creative educational experience this season. 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.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4878 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 13439 bytes Desc: not available URL: