The following teams advanced to the Maryland DI State Tournament:
1st place
Pemberton Elementary Mega Master Minds
North Salisbury School Feary Flames
Westside Intermediate Funky Monkeys
Bennett Middle School Improv Waves
Bennett Middle School Daydreamerz
Salisbury Middle School Thunder Thinkers
Wicomico Middle School Glazed and Confused
Wicomico Middle School Uncommon DInominators
Parkside High School inDIcisive
2nd place
North Salisbury School SiFi Super Stars
North Salisbury School Ninja Fishies
Westside Intermediate Sassy Sisters
Bennett Middle School Imaginators
Bennett Middle School Primetime DI Funguys
Salisbury Middle DI-scoverers
James M. Bennett High School Not You
3rd place
Wicomico Middle School EverDIne
Tournament results are posted online at http://www.marylanddi.org/regions/eastern/. Scroll down to Documents and click on the Eastern Tournament 2015 results attachment.
Earning a special award at the Eastern Region Tournament was the North Salisbury School Legendary Llamas DI team. The team earned the Spirit of DI Award forExceptional Spirit, Teamwork, Volunteerism and Sportsmanship.
DI transcends race, gender, and ethnic boundaries to encourage cooperation and productive problem solving in all children. DI is not so much a program as a process. DI has helped teams learn what we must all learn in life:
- to work cooperatively in teams
- to push the limit of their imaginations
- to learn new skills and creative problem solving tools
A total of 40 teams from Wicomico Schools participated in the tournament, including six Rising Stars teams from primary grades. (Rising Stars teams present their challenge solutions for feedback but not a score, and do not continue beyond the regional tournament.) Regardless of age or grade level, however, each team exhibited exhibited teamwork skills and applied its skills and talents not only to better its competition performance, but to better each individual team member. The 6 competitive team challenges from which teams may choose each year are:
- Challenge A: Technical / Mechanical
- Challenge B: Science / Theater Arts
- Challenge C: Theater Arts / Fine Arts
- Challenge D: Improvisation / Theater Arts
- Challenge E: Structural / Architectural Design
- Project Outreach: Service Learning Challenge
5 comments:
It amazes me that you can get 100s of comments on posts that speak poorly of things that go on in our schools but when an article about the good things happening comes out - then there are NO comments.
Great Job to all of the Teams and Coaches of the DI Teams that made it to States AND those teams that didn't. Lots of hard work went into your solutions and you ALL should be proud of yourselves!
I agree. These kids work their asses off for a long time. Its a shame more time and money is spent on the students that are going to rob us someday instead of the ones that are going to be doctors and teachers And be productive members of society. Congrads and good luck at states.
One of my sons did this a few years back. IIRC, the teachers who coach these teams are NOT paid extra for the time they devote.
Congrats to the teams, kids, schools and parents. Best Luck at the State level.
Yay! Way to go! Let's show the a State of Maryland how creative our students are!
Teachers who work with teams after school and the coordinator of the program are paid. So what? Why shouldn't they be?
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