Team Managers Only!!! (ok - we caught you peeking)
Teamwork, quick thinking and fun!
Each team of 5-7 students needs a Team Manager
As a Team Manager, you:
o Set up and plan meetings.
o Facilitate the team as they brain storm
creative ideas for their solution.
o Prepare Instant Challenges for practice.
Reasons to be a Team Manager
o Minimal qualifications (can you spell DI™?).
o Keeping up with your team keeps you
forever young (…or gives your hair those
distinguished silver highlights).
o Team managing expands your shopping
horizons…
hardware stores and garage sales take on a whole new look.
o “No Interference” rule means “It’s not
your job to solve the Challenge”.
o DI expands your stockpile of useful junk.
o DI cures the mid-winter blues. Time flies when you’re having fun!
o Opportunity to teach real-world life-long skills to a bunch of kids you’ll learn to love.
o Satisfaction of seeing a bunch of disorganized kids come together as a team to create a unique solution
of which they can be proud.
Resources:
Books
Instant Challenge Flip (over 4,000,000,000 combinations for fun performance skits)
Basic Backdrops (great beginning scenery and help to keep the cardboard from falling)
101 Team Building Activities (blindfolds included)
Games (please contact your Grafton DI coordinator to check these out):
Speedy Recall: Pick a letter/word to build a meaningful sentence in just the right time
Origami: Get your team to see if this quick thinking / folding is their "gift"
Nounsense: Laugh aloud while one team member describes the wrong meaning
- and another team member supplies the correct answer!
Dotzee: Enjoy pattern recognition that encourages strategy with lots of fun! Roll the dice and
use strategy to slide them to form various combinations!
DINamic Materials: Take ordinary DI material and make them into DIfinite possitilities!
Schema: Created by DI "professionals", this game of materials, cards, teamwork and limited
time is sure to help your team figure strategies of success!
Swish: Flip, rotate and stack these cards to problem solve and engineer a winning team!
Stenzzles: These artistic puzzle pieces are layered to form creations in nature and beyond that
appeal to all creative minds.
District Coordinator: 262-376-5400 (district office)
Regional Co-Coordinator:
Maureen Warnimont ([email protected])
Websites:
Grafton's website (you are looking at it!!!)
Regional DI website: www.kmdestinationimagination.com
State (Affiliate) DI website: www.wisconsindi.org
DI Headquarters: www.idodi.org
Global Finals: globalfinals.org
Global Finals 2017:
Overview
Expenses
Teacher permission forms – begin now
As a Team Manager, you:
o Set up and plan meetings.
o Facilitate the team as they brain storm
creative ideas for their solution.
o Prepare Instant Challenges for practice.
Reasons to be a Team Manager
o Minimal qualifications (can you spell DI™?).
o Keeping up with your team keeps you
forever young (…or gives your hair those
distinguished silver highlights).
o Team managing expands your shopping
horizons…
hardware stores and garage sales take on a whole new look.
o “No Interference” rule means “It’s not
your job to solve the Challenge”.
o DI expands your stockpile of useful junk.
o DI cures the mid-winter blues. Time flies when you’re having fun!
o Opportunity to teach real-world life-long skills to a bunch of kids you’ll learn to love.
o Satisfaction of seeing a bunch of disorganized kids come together as a team to create a unique solution
of which they can be proud.
Resources:
Books
Instant Challenge Flip (over 4,000,000,000 combinations for fun performance skits)
Basic Backdrops (great beginning scenery and help to keep the cardboard from falling)
101 Team Building Activities (blindfolds included)
Games (please contact your Grafton DI coordinator to check these out):
Speedy Recall: Pick a letter/word to build a meaningful sentence in just the right time
Origami: Get your team to see if this quick thinking / folding is their "gift"
Nounsense: Laugh aloud while one team member describes the wrong meaning
- and another team member supplies the correct answer!
Dotzee: Enjoy pattern recognition that encourages strategy with lots of fun! Roll the dice and
use strategy to slide them to form various combinations!
DINamic Materials: Take ordinary DI material and make them into DIfinite possitilities!
Schema: Created by DI "professionals", this game of materials, cards, teamwork and limited
time is sure to help your team figure strategies of success!
Swish: Flip, rotate and stack these cards to problem solve and engineer a winning team!
Stenzzles: These artistic puzzle pieces are layered to form creations in nature and beyond that
appeal to all creative minds.
District Coordinator: 262-376-5400 (district office)
Regional Co-Coordinator:
Maureen Warnimont ([email protected])
Websites:
Grafton's website (you are looking at it!!!)
Regional DI website: www.kmdestinationimagination.com
State (Affiliate) DI website: www.wisconsindi.org
DI Headquarters: www.idodi.org
Global Finals: globalfinals.org
Global Finals 2017:
Overview
- 16,000 teams sign up for DI
- About 1,200 earn their way to Global Final competition
- Countries and states
- Poland, South Korea, Turkey, Finland, Mexico, Japan
- Texas, Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois, Maryland
- We are “Team Wisconsin”
- May 22 - 27, 2016
- University of Tennessee – Knoxville
- Usually in a dorm
- Won’t know until close to departure
- Boys separate from girls
- Team managers may be in their own room / share with their child
- Dorm food
- Lunches are open throughout the campus
- Dinner is at a designated dining hall close to their dorm
- Our district has, in the past two years, found some funds for a bus
- Teams are encouraged to share transportation (Decrease expenses, Bond with other teams from our district & state (this year with Germantown)
Expenses
- Room & board is about $700 (includes team manager portion)
- Transportation is about $180 (includes team manager portion)
- Wisconsin t-shirt, pins, snacks, Global Finals souvenir
- Grafton Dragon shirt
- School work & supplies
- WI Lion eyes shirt (wearing at opening and closing ceremonies)
- Shorts
- Shirts (1 per day in addition to those already mentioned)
- Electronics (phone charger, gaming devices, laptop, spare ear buds)
- Jeans
- Toiletries / hair needs / medications / female products / sunscreen
- Pillow / blanket
- Sleepwear
- Any other items usually needed while on a trip
- Choices
- MudDI Waters
- Glitter Fairy
- State
- Germantown
- Trading
- Recommend waiting a day to start trading
- Have pins displayed on a towel, placemat, pin bag
- Trade “pin for pin”
- Can get into this as much / as little as you like
- If this sounds interesting, order pins right away
- T-shirt orders
- Pin orders
- Commitment to attend
- Team
- Parent(s)
- BMO Harris
- Grafton Chamber
- Washington Street school sign
- Local newspapers
- Journal Sentinel
Teacher permission forms – begin now