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The 2010 Challenges |
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Synopsis
Challenge A: Direct Deposit
Focus:
Engineering, Cost/Benefit Analysis, Innovation & Design Process, Technical Design & Construction, Experimentation, Mathematics, Communication, Theater Arts, Teamwork
The
Destination: Where This Challenge Will Take You!
You can deliver a pizza. You can deliver
the news. In the field of construction, you can be delivered from the
brink of disaster or deliver important materials that build towards a
goal. But can you deliver construction materials to targets you cannot
see? Each piece of construction material has value, and some more than
others. To become rich you need to decide how to effectively deliver them
to the current construction project! Your team will have to consider which
choices will earn the most reward as you try to deliver your construction
materials over a barrier to the optimum targets on the construction site.
Whatever you decide, you’ll have to work quickly, because the clock
ticking.
* Present a team-created story about making a decision.
* Design and build a piece of equipment that delivers supply Objects over a Barrier to Targets.
* Consider risk versus reward to increase your Object score through strategic delivery to job site Targets.
* Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the Presentation
Challenge B: DI-Bot
Focus:
Structural Engineering, Robotic Technology, Research, Technical Design and Construction, Science, Theater Arts, Teamwork
The
Destination: Where this Challenge Will Take You!
Robots – doing our chores and serving our every need! What could
be better? Robotic Technology has changed our lives and made our dreams
a reality. Gaming systems, cell phones, cars and factories all use Robotic
Technology. What will Robotic Technology accomplish next? How will our
lives change because of it? You get to decide and use your knowledge of
Robotic Technology to show us what may happen.
* Learn about Robotic Technology and the changes it creates.
* Create an original Story which envisions and shows how at least one character’s life may be changed by Robotic Technology.
* Design, create, and integrate a device called DI-BOT, which completes a motion or task, into the Story.
* Create a method to change at least one prop or set piece, or part(s) of the prop or set piece, into DI-BOT, or a part of DI-BOT.
* Create a scene change that enhances the Presentation by providing an effective transitional link from one scene to another.
* Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the Presentation
Challenge C: You're Gonna Flip
Focus:
Teamwork, Storytelling, Puppet Design, Construction Design, Puppetry, Theater Arts, Visual Art
The
Destination: Where This Challenge Will Take You!
A man lives only for money. Flip! After a visit by three ghosts, he discovers
how to love people. That’s Ebenezer Scrooge. A young Kansas girl
feels so unloved at home that she wants to run away. Flip! Over the rainbow,
she learns to appreciate the love she has in her own backyard. That’s
Dorothy’s story. Our understanding of the world can Flip from one
view to another. Theater, books and art are full of such turnabouts. Now
your team gets to create your own Story with a Flip! What’s better
than using a team-created puppet and a piece of Live Visual Art to help
tell your Story? You’re Gonna Flip over this Challenge.
Points of Interest!
Your team will:
* Present an Original Story dramatizing how a Character experiences
a Flip, or a change of point of view, about someone or something.
* Design, construct, and feature at least one Puppet as a character
in the Story.
* Create a piece of Live Visual Art that is to be completely produced
during the Presentation.
* Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the Presentation.
Challenge D: Do or DI
Focus:
Improvisational acting, story development, teamwork, research skill
The
Destination: Where This Challenge Will Take You!
Going… Going… Gone? A Threatened Thing is in danger of extinction,
and YOU are its only hope for survival! With a Stock Character and an
Unimpressive Superpower, can you save the Great Barrier Reef, the Giant
Panda, or even landline telephones? But wait...do all threatened things
need to be saved or is it better if some go the way of the dinosaur? You
decide to Do or DI.
* Create a five-minute Improvisational Skit about a Threatened Thing in danger of extinction. This must be done in a seven-minute Preparation Time period at the Tournament.
* Present a Skit using a Stock Character randomly selected from a list of stock characters that the team has previously researched.
* Incorporate props and/or scenery to enhance the Skit.
* Integrate a randomly selected Unimpressive Superpower that is revealed during the Skit.
Challenge E: Breaking DI News
Focus:
Structural Engineering, Materials Science, International Relations, Research, Innovation and Design Process, Mathematics, Theater Arts, Teamwork
The
Destination: Where This Challenge Will Take You!
Extra, Extra! Read all about it! DI teams make headlines building a structure
that holds the most and weighs the least. Choose this Challenge and your
team will reduce your props, reuse a story and recycle a newspaper all
to prove that you can do more with less
* Design, build, and test a Structure made only of newsprint and glue.
* Reduce the props and scenery used in the Presentation to fit inside a 30in x 24in x 48in (76.20cm x 60.96cm x 121.92cm) container.
* Reuse a story about a Newsworthy Event in a nation other than your own.
* Recycle newsprint by using it creatively in a costume or prop.
* Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the Presentation.
Rising Stars™ Team Challenge:
Weighty News
Focus:
Architecture and Structure, News Reporting, Research, Mathematics, Performing in front of an audience, Team problem solving, Teamwork
The
Destination: Where will this challenge take you?
News here,
news there...news, news everywhere! A Structure has been discovered. It
is made of newspaper and tape. What could it be? Why is it here? What
does it look like? How strong is it? How can it be used? So many questions!
Maybe if we see a newscast about it, the reporters will have some answers.
Let’s watch and see what’s new in the news.
Note: This is a non-competitive Challenge for early elementary-aged children and will not be scored.
project OUTREACH :
Band Together
Focus:
Service Learning, Research, Youth Empowerment, Teamwork, Marketing, Communication, Project Management
The Destination:
Where This Challenge Will Take You!
Are you ready to make a difference in your community? Then fuel your
passion and ignite your vision! In this Challenge, you’ll design
and implement a community-centered Project, and you’ll use music
to help you effect positive change. So band together, select a community
need to address, and reach out with music to change our world.
Points of Interest!
* Identify community needs and use creative problem solving tools
to select at least one need.
* Design and implement a team Project in your community that creatively
uses music to address the need(s) you selected.
* Compile an Album to document the Project.
* Create and perform an entertaining Presentation that informs the
audience about your Project.
* Include a Multi-sensory Aesthetic Experience in your Presentation.
* Create two Side Trips and integrate them into the Presentation
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