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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

DI DAZE The Web Site

This is a site where DI participants can "step up to the challenge" and improve their creative thinking skills, their teamwork skills, their success at solving Instant Challenges, and more!

Take a look around... and have fun!

If you are new to DI, and need introductory information about DI, DISC, or Instant Challenges, scroll down to the bottom of this page!

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This website was developed to support the mission of the
Destination Imagination Support Committee (DISC):

"The mission of DISC is to support the goals of Destination Imagination and its participants through scholarships
and community building activities."

Through this site I hope to support the DISC mission of offering "community building activities" to DI participants in the global community by providing resources for the development
of creativity and teamwork.

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What you can find on this site:

1) Practice Instant Challenges

2) Tips for improving skills in the following areas:

* team building
* creative thinking
* improv/acting skills
* technical/"hands on" challenges

3) Useful links for information on team building, improv skills, and more

4) A calendar of DI events

5) Information on how to run "DI DAZE" events (instant challenge practice for teams)

Once you're ready to begin, scroll back up to the top of this page and look to the left (in the black column) where you will see all of the various pages you can explore. Have fun while you are here-- and be sure to sign my guest book when you visit!

New to DI? Want more information about DISC?

Then look below--
I have information that will help.

If you need more info and/or have suggestions for my site, be sure to let me know-- you can leave a message for me on my guest book,
or you can leave a message on the message board.

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Questions

1)	What is "Destination Imagination" ("DI")?

2)	What is DISC?

3)	What is an Instant Challenge and why is it important?

4)	What is meant by "DI DAZE"?

Answers

What is "Destination Imagination" ("DI")?

"DI" is a non-profit organization that sponsors competitions in creative problem solving for teams of students at various age levels-- from elementary school through college. There is a main "team challenge" which teams select and work on for weeks ahead of a competition. Then there is also the "instant challenge," which teams face for the first time at the competition.

To learn more, check this page of information from the DI web site:

http://www.idodi.org/what.html

What is DISC?

"DISC" stands for "Destination Imagination Support Committee." This committee oversees a scholarship program for DI.

For more information about DISC, click on the link below:

http://www.idodi.org/disc/scholarship/index.htm

What is an Instant Challenge and why is it important?

At a DI competition, teams present their solutions to a team challenge which they have been working on for several weeks before the tournament. However, they also have to solve an "Instant Challange," a challenge they have never seen before.

Here is how the "Instant Challenge" is described on the DI website:

"The Destination ImagiNation Instant Challenge is a Challenge teams are asked to solve in a very short period of time at their Tournament, without knowing ahead of time what the Challenge will be. Teams go into a room and are given a Challenge and the materials with which to solve it. They use their thinking-on-their-feet skills to produce a solution, usually in a period of five to eight minutes!"

For more information on the DI Instant Challenge," click on the link below:

http://www.idodi.org/challenge/instant_challenges.html"

What is meant by "DI DAZE"?

"DI DAZE" is a program sponsored by my high school DI team. It was named for "days" of instant challenge practice and training that my team held for elementary and middle school DI team members (and potential team members) in our region.

The training was always split into two days of workshops:

1) "Instant Soup" -- training on team work and "hands on"/technical challenges.

2) "Improv-O-Rama" -- training on creative thinking and improv challenges.

After our first year of "DI DAZE," we added a third day of training called the "DI DAZE Grab Bag eDItion." On this day, we didn't provide individuals to read the various challenges. Instead, teams traveled from room to room, and we delivered bags to the teams with all of the challenge materials and directions.