2008-2009 Destination ImagiNation® Challenge Previews

Challenge A: Operation Cooperation

Focus: Technical Design/Construction, Innovation/Design Process, Research, Experimentation, Strategic Planning, Theater Arts, Teamwork

People use machines to help them every day. But can you imagine machines helping other machines – working together to get the job done? Team will make Operation Cooperation a reality by creating two machines that cooperate to help each other. Work will be twice as easy, and play will be twice as much fun!

Team will: Design and construct two Machines that travel and complete Tasks.

·                              Choose up to 12 Tasks for Machines to complete cooperatively.

·                              Use NO plug-in AC power for any portion of team’s Presentation.

·                              Create and present a Story about cooperation that is set in part in a Nation other than your own.

·                              Create two Side Trips and integrate them into Presentation.

Challenge B: Instinct Messaging

Focus: Theater Arts (Play writing, Scenic Design and Construction, Performing), Animal Science (Zoosemiotics), Research, Teamwork

Have you ever wondered what animals “say” to each other? Dr. Doolittle knew! Animals don’t communicate by using phones or computers, but they manage to get their message across anyway – loud and clear! They use sounds, color, movement and other tools to warn, inform and network. So get ready to create and communicate – creature style.

 Team will: Create and present a theatrical Presentation with an original Story that demonstrates creature communication.

·                                      Learn about one Featured Creature and two real methods it uses to communicate.

·                                      Design and build a Costume to communicate a message sent by the Featured Creature.

·                                      Construct one or more three-dimensional set pieces that depict a real-life habitat for the Featured Creature.

·                                      Create two Side Trips and integrate them into Presentation.

Challenge C: ViDIo Lit Hits

Focus:Playwriting, Literature, Fine Arts/Theater Arts (Music, Choreography), Technical Design/Construction, Design Process, Teamwork

Captain Hook Jitterbugs? Lady Macbeth sings the Blues?  Bring literature alive as you retell it in an original Live Music ViDIo. Make a grand entrance or leave audience begging for more with a spectacular exit! Whether you’re doing the Twist or singing Ragtime music from the turn of century, you will make the world of literature fun and exciting!

Team will: Create a live Music ViDIo that Dramatically Retells a piece of Literature.

·                                    Integrate Music and team-created Lyrics into the Music ViDIo.

·                                    Dramatically portray a Character from the chosen piece of Literature.

·                                    Create and integrate Choreography into the ViDIo.

·                                    Create and present a Grand Entrance or Grand Exit using Technical Methods.

·                                    Create two Side Trips and integrate them into Presentation.

Challenge D: Private DI

Focus: Improvisational Acting, Story Development, Theater Arts, Team Work, Technical Innovation

Grab popcorn, dim lights and make yourself comfortable; you are about to be amazed, mystified, and entertained! A sleuth is about to solve a superstitious mystery! Using three film genres, a tantalizingly technical Superstition Origin Detector and - at the last cliff-hanging minute - a super surprise, sleuth will lead us on a wild adventure that will have us on the edge of our seats!

Team will: Create a six-minute Improvisational Skit about Origin of randomly selected Superstition in 30-minute timed period at Tournament.

•   Present Skit using styles of three different Film Genres randomly selected from a list of film genres team has previously researched.
•   Integrate a Sleuth, randomly selected from list of historical and fictional detectives team has previously researched, into Skit.
•   Create an Origin for the Superstition.
•   Create a Superstition Origin Detector that physically moves and contributes to solving the mystery of Origin of the Superstition
•   Integrate a randomly selected Surprise!.

Challenge E: A New Angle                                          Sponsored By:

Focus:Structural Engineering, Construction, Research, Innovation and Design Process, Mathematics, Theater Arts, Teamwork

 Statue of Liberty dancing the tango? Mona Lisa’s smile in origami? It’s fun to look at things from a new angle! Team will design, create and combine a two-part structure that has angled sides, and then see how much weight it will hold. Team will also create a new art form by merging two different artistic media. So excite your ImagiNation by seeing things from A New Angle!

 Team will: Design, build, and test a two-part Structure made completely of wood and glue.

·                                     Create and present a Story about the merging of two forms of art to create a new form of artistic expression.

·                                     Create and present a merged Art form.

·                                     Create two Side Trips and integrate them into Presentation.

Rising Stars!^® Hidden

Focus:  Imagining Possibilities, Storytelling, Research, Science, Mathematics, Performing in front of an audience, Team problem solving, Working with others

 Sh-h-h-h. Peek around. Do you see something Hidden? Did you ever wonder what goes on when an ant scurries into an ant hill? When a whale swallows a school of fish? Close your eyes! Let your imagination travel. Imagine what happens in a HIDDEN place! Make up a play. In the play the characters have to solve a problem. Keep looking! Do you see a gadget? Let the story unfold, a story to be told. It’s all up to you!

projectOUTREACH^®   Focus: Service Learning, Research, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Youth Empowerment, Teamwork, Marketing, Communication, Project Management  Now is the time to take charge and make a difference. Rally your peers to dive into the Food Groups To Encourage and to get moving! Get ready to serve it up and work it out with this first season of Destination ImagiNation projectOUTREACH.

 You can have it both ways! Now is the time to take charge and make a difference. Rally your peers to dive into the Food Groups To Encourage and to get moving! Get ready to serve it up and work it out with this first season of Destination ImagiNation projectOUTREACH. Points of Interest! The projectOUTREACH Challenge has two DIstinct components. First component is the Project that is created and implemented in order to solve the real problem. Second component is Tournament elements that are required to culminate and showcase the Project. In Washington, the Tournament for this challenge will be State

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