New Team Manager Training

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New Team Manager Training
Confident Kids in an Amazing State of Creativity
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• Destination Imagination Colorado
• Confident Kids in an Amazing State of Creativity
• Our mission is to prepare Colorados kids to be
  the innovators of the future by combining the
  arts, sciences, and technology with creativity,
  teamwork, and problem solving.

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What is in Your Packet?

• Agenda for today
• DI eXtreme LOST for high school students
• IC Success Day to teach TMs how to teach IC
• Sponsorship request
• Support Colorado DI
• Tournament Schedule and Regional Contacts
• Sponsor Handouts

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Thank you to our Sponsors
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Resources

• www.destinationimagination.org
• DI University
• Clarifications (General and Team Specific)
• Challenge Materials
• Volunteer Code of Conduct
• Team Manager email group
• www.extremecreativity.org
• Challenge Master
• Regional Director
• Affiliate Director
• Additional Trainings
• Team Manager After Hours Group
• Rules of the Road
• Challenge
• Google IC and Youtube Videos
• Facebook

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Destination Imagination

• Destination Imagination is an educational
  activity in which student teams solve open-ended
  Challenges and present their solutions at
  Tournaments.
• Destination Imagination is in the United States,
  37 countries and has 99 affiliates
• Last year, over 15,000 teams all over the world
  participated, and over 932 teams competed at
  Global Finals

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• All students from Kindergarten through University
  can participate in age or grade-defined levels
• Rising Stars Preschool-2nd grade
• Elementary K-5th grade
• Middle 6-8th grade
• Secondary 9-12th grade
• University Level
• Students must participate in 2- to 7-person
  teams.
• Teams compete in one of 7 Team Challenges.
• We offer the following types of Team Challenges
  Technical, Scientific, Fine Arts,
  Improvisational, Structural, Service Learning,
  and Rising Stars!

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Destination Imagination in Colorado

• Colorado is the 3rd largest Affiliate with nearly
  1,000 teams
• Colorado is divided into 10 regions, each of
  which holds a regional tournament. The regions
  are Boulder, Cherry Creek, Denver, Jeffco, North
  Metro, Pikes Peak, South, South Metro, Southwest
  and Western Slope.
• Information regarding the Colorado affiliate can
  be found at www.extremecreativity.org. You can
  also join our Facebook page to get the latest
  information. www.tinyurl.com/codi2010

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The Creative Process
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The Creative Process
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Establishing Goals

• DI is a competition based program, the final
  product is presented at the tournament
• However, the competition is not the end goal
• You and your team should have goals and
  expectations that may change as the year goes on
• Completing the challenge and having a solution to
  present at your regional tournament is an amazing
  goal
• By doing this your team will have learned many
  life skills
• Celebrate!

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Destination ImagiNation

• Central Challenge
• 60
• Instant Challenge
• 25
• Team Choice Elements
• 15

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Elements of the Central Challenge

• Challenge Title
• Focus
•  The Destination Where This Challenge Will Take
  You!
•  Points of Interest 
• A. Itinerary The Central Challenge
• B. Team Choice Elements
• C. Presentation Site
• D. Reward Points
• E. Important DIrections for Team Managers

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Solving the Central Challenge

• Read the Challenge more than once
• Read Rules of the Road and refer to them often
• Read Team Manager Guide
• Use the Clarification process
• Understand Interference
• Learn Creative Problem Solving Tools and
  Techniques
• Promote integration of challenge elements

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Instant Challenge Success

• Practice, Practice, Practice
• And practice some more
• Allowed to teach everything (even the solution)
• Coach on all aspects of challenge
• Practice, practice, practice
• Challenges available online
• Materials available at sales table
• Attend IC Training at 1130 today
• Attend IC Success Training on Dec 8th, 2012 25
  fee, Hinkley HS

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What do I do first?
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How to choose a challenge
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Creative Problem Solving Tools

• Many ways to generate and focus ideas
• Road Map
• Google Creative Problem Solving Tools online
• Attend CPS training this afternoon
• CPS training will also be offered as a webinar

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Financing a DI Team

• Team Membership Fee 100-200
• Team Supplies 250 on average
• Regional Tournament Fees up to 100
• T-Shirts (optional) 15 for team member
• Total cost is about 665, or about 93.00 a team
  member for a team of 7
• PTA, team parents, local businesses
• Collect up front or at the end of tournament
  season

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Team Meetings

• Team meetings should fit the needs of the team
  manager and the goals set by the team
• Team meetings can be after school, in the
  evenings or on weekends.
• On average teams meet for 16 weeks, for an
  average of 2 hours a week
• You may need to increase practice time as
  tournament gets closer depending on your solution

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Interference
SOLUTION
The Team OWNS the top
Challenge and Rules
Skills
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Interference

• Safety is NEVER interference
• Teaching skills the students ask to be taught is
  not interference
• Using Instant Challenge to teach building and
  performance skills is not interference
• Making sure the students understand the challenge
  is not interference
• No person (teacher, parent, friend, sales
  assistant) other than the team members may touch
  the materials used in the actual performance.
  That IS interference

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Integration

• Combining into the whole
• All elements of the challenge relate to the
  central story
• Team Choice Elements need to add to the story,
  not be apart from it.

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Safety

• Volunteer Code of Conduct
• Must be signed by all Team Managers, Appraisers,
  and Volunteers
• If not signed, team will not be allowed to
  compete
• Will be signed online at www.idodi.org
• You will receive an email when it is available to
  sign
• Paper copies will be available at tournaments,
  but online is preferred

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Safety continued

• Working with children
• Have two adults and at least two children at all
  meetings
• When driving, always have at least two kids with
  you (no texting, phone calls)
• Have homeowners or renters insurance and
  automobile insurance
• Get permission slips signed by parents for
  transportation and tools use
• Ensuring safety is not interference if the
  activity is not safe you can stop it