Every child walked away from the tournament having learned some important life lessons:
- How to work together
What to do in a crisis
How to pull together when it's not going well
How to enjoy it when it IS going well
How to perform in front of an audience
How to compare results by seeing how other teams solved the challenge
How to take care of one another
How we actually CAN do it by ourselves (without adults doing it for us.)
How reading the rules really IS important
How practice paid off
How to adapt quickly to change
How to take pride in my work...
And that process is what it's all about!!!
Thanks to all of you for putting in MANY hours and being very patient with a LONG day!
In addition, I'm happy to announce that Rosa Parks Elementary School won the following (big) TROPHIES at DI STATE COMPETITION!
Live Justice: 2nd Place in D'Ive Got a Secret, when they revealed an interesting Secret by telling how some woodland creatures of Stonekey Woods devised a plan to fool the Owl by making a false girlfriend for him.
The Thunder Thinkers: 2nd Place in Chorific! They performed a skit about a Surfer dude named Cinderfella who raps while doing his chores. One of 12 famous people (Jane Goodall) was integrated into the skit as well as a freeze frame improv technique.
The Aqua Raiders won 2nd place in Hit or Myth by discovering a mythological Indian god Shiva in a museum in the United States who came to life and took them on a journey to the Himalayas and India.
The Bluebie Blablibs won a prestigious award called the Renaissance Award for Engineering Design in a performance. They won this for their turning set design, special costumes, and for their cheese fondue device which spins.
