Whew! What a busy few months it has been getting ready for Destination Imagionation (DI- is what we affectionately refer to it as). Caleb participates in DI at his school and we had the regional competition today. I'm very proud to say that Caleb's team came in 2nd for the challenge that was presented to his team. The way that DI works is that the top three teams in a particular challenge will proceed onto the State Competition which will be held in Fishers, Indiana next month. I'm so very proud of St. John's Obstacles Of Course DI team. Way to go!
This is a team that has worked very hard and had a very difficult challenge to overcome. Their challenge was called, Obstacles, Of Course. They had to build without adult assistance, other than the coach guiding them, their own obstacle course, design a skit that went along with their theme. They ended up having a ramp that the car had to jump over, a tree where they had to save a cat in a tree, a tunnel, a set of steps, a fire station and a farris wheel. They designed a car
that had a string attached to the front of the car and pulled the car along using a cordless drill, so the car could go into forward or reverse. Caleb was the driver of the car and he handled the pressure of running the cordless drill with the car through the obstacles pretty good. One cute thing they did was, they had a sign made for roadside assistance and whenever the car would deter off the track, another little boy held up the sign and would put the car back on the track using kitchen tongs (because they were not allowed to touch the car with their hands so thus kitchen tongs).
I will quote from our handbook, "Destination Imagination is an international program for K-12 and college students which teaches life skills and expands imaginations through team-based creative problem-solving. Destination Imagination emphasizes creativity, teamwork, research skills, presentation skills, and the added art of improvisation". This is a great program for kids of all ages because it offers them so many skills that will stay with them throughout their life. Caleb is always ready for the competition to come because it typically means that we are finished until the next school year, but not this year.
Caleb is excited about going to the state competition for DI but baseball season has also started so this means practice, practice, practice and more practice.
This was a sight to behold out my front window a couple of weeks ago. The dogs were going crazy barking so I ran to the window to see and what a beautiful sight it was to see these 5 deer across the road in the neighbor's yard. These deer must live in the woods behind our neighbor's house because we see these beautiful creatures there alot. The dogs eventually got bored and moved onto something else, the deer must know that the dogs can't get out of our yard because of the "Invisible Fence". The dogs can bark all day long but the they can't get to the deer. I was able to step out onto the front porch and take this picture and the deer just looked at me.
This is a team that has worked very hard and had a very difficult challenge to overcome. Their challenge was called, Obstacles, Of Course. They had to build without adult assistance, other than the coach guiding them, their own obstacle course, design a skit that went along with their theme. They ended up having a ramp that the car had to jump over, a tree where they had to save a cat in a tree, a tunnel, a set of steps, a fire station and a farris wheel. They designed a car
that had a string attached to the front of the car and pulled the car along using a cordless drill, so the car could go into forward or reverse. Caleb was the driver of the car and he handled the pressure of running the cordless drill with the car through the obstacles pretty good. One cute thing they did was, they had a sign made for roadside assistance and whenever the car would deter off the track, another little boy held up the sign and would put the car back on the track using kitchen tongs (because they were not allowed to touch the car with their hands so thus kitchen tongs).
I will quote from our handbook, "Destination Imagination is an international program for K-12 and college students which teaches life skills and expands imaginations through team-based creative problem-solving. Destination Imagination emphasizes creativity, teamwork, research skills, presentation skills, and the added art of improvisation". This is a great program for kids of all ages because it offers them so many skills that will stay with them throughout their life. Caleb is always ready for the competition to come because it typically means that we are finished until the next school year, but not this year.
Caleb is excited about going to the state competition for DI but baseball season has also started so this means practice, practice, practice and more practice.
This was a sight to behold out my front window a couple of weeks ago. The dogs were going crazy barking so I ran to the window to see and what a beautiful sight it was to see these 5 deer across the road in the neighbor's yard. These deer must live in the woods behind our neighbor's house because we see these beautiful creatures there alot. The dogs eventually got bored and moved onto something else, the deer must know that the dogs can't get out of our yard because of the "Invisible Fence". The dogs can bark all day long but the they can't get to the deer. I was able to step out onto the front porch and take this picture and the deer just looked at me.
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Congratulations to Caleb! The deer are so pretty. Every once in awhile we even see one in our city jungle.
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