From diflnews at floridadi.org Tue Jun 9 18:20:50 2020 From: diflnews at floridadi.org (Florida DI News) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 14:20:50 -0400 Subject: [DIFLnews] June Newsletter In-Reply-To: <004e01d63e80$6a6ccea0$3f466be0$@gmail.com> References: <004e01d63e80$6a6ccea0$3f466be0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: Greetings! We hope this finds you and your families well. We feel so fortunate to live in Florida where we usually enjoy the sunshine and have been able to be outdoors through much of the country's shutdown. Our situation is very different from many of our friends in more northern areas. Our Ball and Box logo is meant to evoke "thinking outside the box", which is what we challenge our students to do. Our leadership is facing the challenge of providing our creative, STEAM and project based learning program in very uncertain times. As you might imagine, Destination Imagination is working hard to adapt the program. I would like to relay information that DII has released: The 2020-21 season of DI will look different than previous ones. As always, our top priority is the safety of our participants and volunteers, and our Challenge season will reflect that. We understand that the public health situation due to COVID-19 may vary in different parts of the world as we progress through the season. As a result, DI participation may look different as well. For the 2020-21 season, a limited suite of Team Challenges will be available to choose from. Teams will be able to solve the Challenges whether they are able to meet in-person or are engaged in distance learning. Teams will have opportunities to compete, be ranked and advance through Regional and Affiliate competition levels. Planning for Global Finals 2021 will continue to evolve as we learn more about the educational landscape in response to COVID-19. We will share further details about the Challenge Experience-including previews of the Team Challenges-and Global Finals 2021 as they become available. Due to the work necessary to reimagine our Challenge materials, the 2020-21 season will launch later than normal, on November 1, 2020. Access to the full Team Challenges, Roadmap, Rules of the Road, and the Instant Challenge Practice Set will be made available at that time. To read the full Destination Imagination announcement, click HERE Florida DI will continue to provide updates as we receive them. Meanwhile, we invite you to check out Instant Challenges that DII has created. You can reach some of them on the DII Site as well as on our Florida DI Facebook page . Especially try the virtual challenges as a preview of what may be coming. Another really cool resource is New Hampshire DI's enewsletter: Check it out! Are you an Amazon shopper? If you are, please consider shopping through the Amazon Smile program and designating Florida Destination Imagination as your charity. A donation would be credited to us each time you make a purchase. If you have a connection to a company that might have an interest in sponsoring Florida DI in any way, we would love to hear about them! We wish you a creative and healthy summer! 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: 28999 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4878 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 11807 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image004.png Type: image/png Size: 62097 bytes Desc: not available URL: