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=Upcoming Dates:= Pizza Ranch Fundraiser @ Hartford Pizza Ranch Monday, January 4, 2010 @ Hartford Pizza Ranch Tuesday, January 12th 4:30** 2010 Instant Challenge Days @ Tri-Valley School Saturday, January 30th, 2010 9am - 1pm 2010 Southeast Regionals @ Tri-Valley School Saturday, March 6, 2010 (Full day) =Supply Needs:= = =
 * Kelo Studio Tour @ 501 S. Phillips Ave, Sioux Falls

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 * rolls of duct tape, masking tape, scotch tape

=2009-2010 DI Rising Stars Challenge:= Rising Stars!® Weighty News Where This Challenge Will 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!
 * Educational Focus:** Architecture and Structure, News Reporting, Research, Mathematics, Performing in front of an audience, Team problem solving, Teamwork
 * The Destination:

=PLEASE READ PARENTS!= =Interference: The Interference Triangle= members may contribute ideas and create the Team Challenge and Side Trip solutions. Help from non-team members, including Team Managers and parents, is called Interference.**
 * The Team Challenge solution is owned and operated by the team! Only team

Interference is and what Team Managers and other people are allowed to help the team with.
 * The Interference Triangle** is a useful tool to help the team remember what

The Base of the Triangle consists of two corners: Skills and Challenge & Rules. These two corner support blocks are what teams have in common when they participate in the Destination ImagiNation program and process.

team, and those skills team members learn while being a part of the team. Learning skills is an important and valuable part of the process of DI. Being in the program will someday end, but the skills the team learned will continue throughout their lives. These skills include: performance skills, technical skills, thinking skills, team building, research, organizational, time management, budgeting and life skills, to name a few. It is not Interference for the team to be taught skills. In fact, it is the job of the Team Manager to facilitate the acquisition of skills. It is the job of the team to apply the learned skills to a particular purpose or use in creating the Challenge solution.
 * Skills** are both those skills that the team members already know and bring to the

Clarifications. These are the documents that teams, Team Managers and Tournament Officials have in common. The Challenge requirements and limitations, and the rules in Rules of the Road are the facts by which all must abide. Understanding them and internalizing them is the job of the team, the Team Manager and the Officials. What does the Challenge say? What does it say in Rules of the Road? What are the Published Clarifications? Let’s write for a Team Clarification! This is all learning that can be shared, should be shared, and is shared among teams, Team Managers and Officials. So it is not Interference for the Team Manager to be sure the team understands the Challenge and the rules.
 * The Challenge & Rules** are the printed Challenge, the Rules of the Road and

Sometimes skills determine which Challenge to choose; sometimes the Challenge is chosen, and skills have to be learned in order to solve it. Regardless of which comes first, there is a back-and-forth of learning skills and understanding the Challenge that occurs before and while the team makes choices that apply to your solution.

their acquisition of skills and from their understanding of the Challenge and rules. It IS Interference for anyone not on the team to be in the team’s Solution corner of the Triangle. Recognize and respect that the “top” is where team members reign!**
 * The team’s Solution is the team’s alone. It is something that the team builds from



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