Focus:
· Technical Design and Construction of an Aircraft
· Invention and Design Process
· Mathematics
· Experimentation
· Theater Arts
· Strategic Planning,
· Team Work

The Destination: Where This Challenge Will Take You!
Have you ever dreamed of soaring in the clouds and then gliding back to earth, defying gravity to feel the wind in your hair and see the world from a whole new perspective? Like many in history who have dreamed this dream before you, in this Challenge your team will have the chance to create Aircraft and show how they soar, perform stunts and then land exactly where you planned. Like Leonardo, Amelia, Joseph and Jacques, Wilbur and Orville, you can show the world that your ideas are destined to fly!

Points of Interest! Your team will:
* Design and construct one or more Aircraft that will fly to one of several Landing Zones. One of the Aircraft will be constructed at the Tournament from
a single sheet of paper.
* Design and construct up to three Elevators that will raise and release the Aircraft.
* Randomly select Test Flight Cards and conduct Test Flights of the Aircraft as described on the Cards.
* Create a skit with a Story that will bring together all elements of the team’s Presentation.
* Create two Side Trips and integrate them into your team’s Presentation

Focus:
· Theater Arts (Playwriting, Set Design and Construction)
· Scientific Principles of Light, Shadow and Illumination
· Technical Design, Innovation and Design Process
· Investigative Techniques, Deductive Reasoning
· Teamwork

The Destination: Where this Challenge Will Take You!
Color. Shadow. Illumination. Your colorful crime fighting team has the technology to shed light on an investigation! Just like Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew, colorful characters before you have delved into the shadows to investigate cases. Investigators often use gadgets to help illuminate the evidence needed to solve the case. Your Challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to bring another case to a close!

Points of Interest! Your team will:
* Develop and present an original Story about the investigation of a Case, the supporting Evidence, and the resolution of that Case.
* Include a Colorful Character and a Shadowy Character in the Story.
* Use innovative methods to produce a theatrical CSI Effect by using Color, Shadow, and/or Illumination.
* Design and build a Gadget that uses one or more of the Properties of Visible Light coming from or into the Gadget to reveal or analyze at least one piece of Physical Evidence.
* Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the Presentation.

Focus:
· Playwriting, Theater Arts (Theater in the Round, props and Set Pieces)
· Technical Effects Innovation and Design Process
· Teamwork

The Destination: Where This Challenge Will Take You!
Heroes are courageous - they sometimes slay dragons to save whole villages! But there are also everyday acts of courage like raising your hand in class or trying a new stunt on your skateboard. Your team will create and present a story of a Heroic Adventure that includes a Personal Challenge for the Hero to overcome. The Presentation will be done in the style of Theater in the Round and will include a Technical Set Piece that brings your Story to life. And you have to do everything without electricity! It’s time for your hero to show brilliant courage to those who surround your stage.

Points of Interest! Your team will:
* Present a theatrical performance of a team-created Story about a Heroic Adventure.
* Include a Hero in the Story who must overcome a Personal Challenge.
* Present your performance in the style of Theater in the Round.
* Integrate one or more Technical Set Piece(s) or Prop(s) into your Presentation.
* Present your solution without the use of electricity.
* Create two Side Trips and add them to the Presentation.

Focus:
· Improvisational Acting
· Story Development
· Research
· Theater Arts
· Teamwork

The Destination: Where This Challenge Will Take You!
Truly experiencing another culture requires every sense – to really appreciate how others live, you must see, feel, hear, taste and smell what makes their lives different from yours. In this Challenge, you’ll zoom around the world experiencing International Traditions in a matter of nanoseconds. Your team must be packed, ready and fully briefed, for at one moment you may taste the tang of sauce currie in France, and then in the next moment you hear traditional throat singing in Tuva. Poof! You touch the mysteries of ancient Egypt. Let your senses guide you through a world of Traditions.

Points of Interest! Your team will:
* Create an original six-minute Improvisational Skit during a 30-minute timed period at the Tournament.
* Research six different team-selected Nations and their Traditions and at the Tournament randomly choose three to integrate into your Skit.
* Present a Skit with three Scenes. Each Scene must include one Nation’s Tradition and one ‘sensory’ experience from the Nation that has been randomly drawn from Sensory Cards.
* Integrate a randomly selected Situation into your Skit.
* Create a traDItionator from materials brought to the Tournament and integrate it into your Skit.
* Demonstrate at least one Improv Technique in your Skit.
* Integrate a randomly selected Picture into your Skit.

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

The Destination: Where This Challenge Will Take You!
Is your destiny in the CARDS? CARDS are everywhere! CARDS prove our identity. CARDS allow us access to locked doors. CARDS can lead to financial ruin. We are in desperate need of a Card-DI-ologist! Can you help? You need to present a story about the impact of cards, and you must build a Structure out of Playing Cards. When your Structure is tested to see how much weight it will hold, is success in the CARDS?

Points of Interest! Your team will:
* Design, build, and test a Structure made completely of Playing Cards and with or without Glue.
* Create an Architectural Drawing of the Structure.
* Create and present a Story about the impact or effect any kind of card or cards has on a Character in the Story.
* Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the Presentation.

Focus:
· Understanding geography
· Researching landmarks
· Changing a landmark
· Designing and building
· Making an invention
· Writing a play
· Sequencing steps
· Making noises
· Performing in front of an audience
· Working with others

The Destination: What Is our Challenge?
Your Challenge is to make up a Play. You will be in it and you will present it to an audience. Your Play will have a Landmark that changes. A Landmark is a well-known, special place. Some or all of your team must get inside the Landmark. You will also create an Invention. It will make a noise. Your Invention will change the Landmark in some way. Your Play will have many Characters, and one Character wears a hat you have made out of newspaper.

Note: This is a non-competitive Challenge for early elementary-aged children and will not be scored.