Record Five Wicomico Teams Advance to Destination ImagiNation Global Finals
Five Wicomico County teams scored so well in the Maryland DI Tournament Saturday at Towson University that the teams have advanced to Global Finals. This is a record number of Global Finals teams for Wicomico County, which also celebrated three of its teams winning special awards in the state tournament.
Qualifying for Global Finals, to be held May 20-23 in Knoxville, Tenn.:
1st Place: Salisbury Middle School "Mini Tuts"
1st Place: Salisbury Middle School "All of That"
1st Place: Bennett Middle School "Easily DIstracted"
1st Place: Westside Intermediate School "Translating Rams"
2nd Place: Westside Intermediate School "DInamic Peeps"
Special Awards:
The Renaissance Award is offered for exceptional skill in the areas of engineering, design, or performance. This award is offered for skill rather than creativity.
Renaissance Award Winner: Salisbury Middle School "MiniTuts"
Renaissance Award Winner: Salisbury Middle School "All of That"
The DaVinci Award is offered for exceptional creativity, a unique approach to the problem and/or risk taking.
DaVinci Award Winner: Westside Intermediate School "Translating Rams"
3rd Place Teams:
Mardela Middle and High School "Detonating DIalogs"
Pemberton Elementary School "DIfferent Angles"
Teams will be recognized at the June 2 Board of Education Awards & Recognitions Night.
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Wicomico County should be very proud of our DI teams. Way to go SMS - Mini Tuts!
ReplyDeleteDI is supposed to be run by volunteers and my child's school does it that way. Wicomico's DI organization has many volunteers but the Bd of Ed also pays thousands to teachers and a coordinator to work with DI teams that compete and some that don't. It's odd that Wicomico has extra money to pay people to work with DI but they'll always have lots of winning teams if they keep doing it that way. If there are budget cuts maybe they'll have to use volunteers only like they're supposed to
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