TEAM
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TRAINING
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Team Manager Review
• Registered with DI and received team number
(147-xxxxx)
• Received Program Materials (hardcopy/download)
• Accessed the website
www.destinationimagination.com
• Checked website for Clarifications. ( Last date for
Clarifications is Feb 15, 2014)
• Met with team, chosen challenge, practice, have
fun
• Read the Challenge, Rules of Road & Roadmap
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To Do List
• Register with Washington Imagination Network
(WIN) at www.wa-di.org . Do all the paperwork online
• Advanced TM Training, Wed, 1/15/14 RSVP
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WIN Registration
• Deadline Jan 8, 2014, late fee $50
• Aim for before Christmas Break
• WIN does not accept credit cards,
– only checks & PO’s
• Registration Forms
– Membership Name / Team Name
– Special Circumstances
• Volunteer Requirements
• Consent Forms (Parental and General)
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To Do List
• Set up a team calendar
• Stay in touch with Team Parents
• Ask Parents to help you
• Relax and have FUN! It’s the Process!
• Remember not to interfere
• Chocolate!!
• Practice Instant Challenges with your team
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Before we move on:
• Any Questions ?
• Concerns ?
• Doubts ?
• Nightmares !!!
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INSTANT
CHALLENGE
Creative Problem Solving
against the Clock
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What is an
Instant Challenge?
1. Instant Challenge provides a chance for a team to
show off its creative problem solving skills in a short,
unrehearsed presentation to Appraisers. Although
each Instant Challenge has different requirements,
Instant Challenges reward teams for teamwork and
the uniqueness and creativity of the team’s solution
2. IC’s last between 5-10 minutes
3. At the tournament, each team that competes in a
specific Team Challenge in a specific Level will
receive the same Instant Challenge.
(Rising STARts)
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Why Do Instant Challenge?
• A great way to learn and practice Creative
Problems Solving (CPS) tools for use in the
Central Challenge. Read about CPS Tools in
your Roadmap
• Great for team building
• Instills confidence in team members
• Team members can use techniques to help
solve “challenges” in their daily lives
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Tips for Team Managers
• Find helpful information about Instant Challenge in
Rules of the Road and the Roadmap
• Types of Instant Challenges: Task, Performance or
Combination
• Find practice IC’s in Roadmap, books and online:
Google “DI Instant Challenges, (challenge level)”
• Team member roles:
– Timekeeper/Scorer/Story/Techie
• Let the team practice solving different types of
Instant Challenges
*Green always indicates Rising Stars
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Tips for Team Managers
• Putting together an Instant Challenge ToolboxWhat’s in it?
Pipe-cleaners, mailing labels, non-flexible straws,
paperclips, rubber-bands
newspaper, index cards, toothpicks, cardboard
tubes, paper cups, paper plates, string, clothes
pins, popsicle sticks, coin rollers, aluminum foil,
paper bag, paper, corks, envelope, clay, spaghetti,
unsharpened pencils or chopsticks, ping pong
balls, markers, scissors, marbles, feathers, cotton
balls, most anything from your recycle bin.
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Tips for Team Managers
• Let the team play with the materials
• Which materials are:
– Connectors
– Lengtheners
– Strengtheners
• Start introducing time requirements
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At the Tournament
• Understand the general logistical flow at a
Tournament Instant Challenge Site
• Rising Stars
• Competitive Teams
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IC Facts for Rising Stars
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ICs are usually three to ten minutes long
Immediately before their RS performance
Parents and audience can watch
Each team has a different IC
Simple and fun activity for the team to showcase
their creativity and teamwork
- Development of story(beginning, middle and end)
- Use of materials
- Teamwork
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Competitive IC Facts
• Central Challenge time and IC time
• ICs are usually three to ten minutes long
• Teams will not know the IC until it is presented to them on
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Tournament day
No audience
Teams decide if one Team Manager may join them in the
IC room
Teams may NOT talk about their IC, except PRIVATELY
among themselves –Chill Out Room
IC scoring criteria may include but are not limited to:
- Development of skit
- Use of materials
- Teamwork
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- Character development
- Creativity of solution
- Effectiveness of solution
How is IC Appraised?
1. Complete their objective?
RS = Learning + Fun + Working Together
2. Creativity
So-so / Cool / WOW! It blew my socks off!
3. Teamwork / Team Dynamics
Mutual respect / Diversity of Skills / Team Roles
4. Performance
Beginning, Middle and End
Performance Skills
5. Scores and Sticky Notes
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Interference
• Two ways to commit Interference in IC room
– If team knows the Challenge before their actual
competition
– If someone helps the team in the IC room during
competition
• A Team Manager can have a lot of fun working
with team and training them in IC techniques
• All CPS Tools can be taught to the team
• Teaching CPS tools in IC is analogous to
teaching sewing skills for Central Challenge
• Have team practice all three types of ICs
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Instant Challenges
• Any questions?
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Types of Instant Challenges
• Task-based
• Performance-based
• Combination
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Task-based IC
• Focus is on team working together to move,
build, change or protect materials they are
given in order to complete a task
• Evaluated on how well team works together
to design the solution, effectiveness of
solution and on the creativity of their final
project
• Team members may or may not be allowed to
talk during the execution of the Challenge
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Task-based IC Tips
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Focus and listen carefully to instructions
Know where the points are in the Challenge
Understand all possible uses for materials
Work through “alternative uses”
Use materials uniquely and creatively
Break into sub-groups if necessary Divide and Conquer
• Practice giving everyone a part
• Task completion
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Now It’s Your Turn
Task-based
Instant Challenge
Activity
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Now It’s Your Turn
Super Potato
or
Above and Beyond
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Performance-based IC
• Focus is on team working together to create and
present a theatrically solution
• Evaluated on creativity of solution, presentation
and/or use of materials along with teamwork
• Types of Performance-based ICs
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With Props
Without Props
Team-created Props
Imaginary Props
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Performance-based IC Tips
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Speak loudly and clearly
Listen to instructions carefully
Know where the points are in the Challenge
Listen to teammates when doing Improv
Don’t make unnecessarily long speeches
Practice giving everyone a part
Practice talking yourself out of jam
Practice saving a teammate who cannot think of line
Practice using exaggerated movements / expressions
Make up own Improv games
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Now It’s Your Turn
Performance-based
Instant Challenge
Activity
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Now It’s Your Turn
It’s Picture Time
or
Mix-Up in the
Factory
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Combination
Instant Challenge
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Lost
or
“Let’s Fly a Kite”
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9 ?’s to ask after every IC
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How did you do as a team?
How did you manage your time?
What worked well?
If you could do it again, what would you do
differently?
How well did you use the materials?
Did your solution fit the scoring?
Did the solution work? Why? Why not?
Could it have been more creative? How?
What did you learn?
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Tips to Improve IC Skills
1. Assign team jobs to be better organized
Timekeeper, Scorer, Story person, Techie
2. Switch jobs
3. Videotape the IC so the team can critique
themselves, then ask, “What did you see?”
4. Repeat the IC, with a different solution
5. Remove or change materials
6. Re-run Instant Challenges
7. Divide into two teams and compete
8. Try imaginary props
9. Silence
10. Shorten the time frame
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Instant Challenges
• Instant Challenges can be found in the
Roadmap, on the DI website, shop DI, books,
CD’s, on the internet
• BC Original Minds: www.bcdi.org
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Creating Your Own
Performance-based IC
• Create your own practice Performance-based
ICs without props, with props, team-created
props (e.g., paper, scissors, markers),
imaginary props
• Use Morphological Matrix for scenario
generation
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Morphological Matrix
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B
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D
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Materials
Make a …
That will
Place
Situation
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Shoe Box
Toy
Move
Western Town Lost in a
library
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Newspaper
Vehicle
Make a job
easier
Mars
Overslept
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Envelope
Wagon
Appeal to a
teenager
Underground
Waiting for a
bus
4
Pasta
Doll
Make people
laugh
Up a tree
Baking a
cake
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Creating Your Own
Task-based IC
• Create your own practice Task-Based ICs by
combining and recombining items and tasks
• Try to include:
– Items that will hold weight, or have strength, or
provide length to go across distances (e.g.,
straws, pencils, cardboard tubes, etc.)
– Items that will connect one item to another (e.g.,
labels, paperclips…)
– Items that will hold and/or control items (e.g.,
paper cups…)
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Workshop
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Klahowya Secondary School
IC Training for Appraisers and TM’s11:00a -12:00noon
IC Workshop for Teams
Check-in: 12:30pm
Workshops 1:00 – 4:00pm
Register by 1/10 $35 per team
Late Registration 1/11-20 $45 per team
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Any ?’s
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Thank you for
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