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Re: Anyone participate in Destination Imagination?
Posted by Debbie on 7/19/08
On 7/18/08, Jamie in MO wrote:
> On 7/18/08, Rebecca wrote:
>> What is involved in becomming trained as an appraiser? My principal
>> emailed me last Thurs. to see if I am willing to coach a team for our
>> Inter. school. I've always been interested in DI, but didn't know how
>> much of a time commitment it would be. Thanks for info!
>
> I found DI was a pretty big time commitment (I was the membership
> coordinator for our school). Appraisers have to go to a three hour
> training session and then be available all day to give feedback at the
> tournament. Team managers facilitate meetings, which increase in frequency
> and length during the weeks before the event.
>
> I heard the split with OM was because too many people felt like adults had
> their hands in "student" projects. In DI, everyone signs contracts for
> no "interference" from anyone who is not on the team. In other words, all
> ideas, construction, performance, scripts, and revision come from the
> student team members.
Thanks for the info about OM. OM is pretty big in Florida. I did look up DI on
their website and found that the coordinator for Florida is also the same for
Georgia so it must not be too well known in Florida, yet.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Anyone participate in Destination Imagination?, 7/16/08, by new.
- Re: Anyone participate in Destination Imagination?, 7/16/08, by Froggybee.
- Re: Anyone participate in Destination Imagination?, 7/17/08, by Debbie.
- Re: Anyone participate in Destination Imagination?, 7/17/08, by Froggybee.
- Re: Anyone participate in Destination Imagination?, 7/17/08, by Froggybee.
- Re: Anyone participate in Destination Imagination?, 7/18/08, by Debbie.
- Re: Anyone participate in Destination Imagination?, 7/18/08, by Rebecca.
- Re: Anyone participate in Destination Imagination?, 7/18/08, by Jamie in MO.
- Re: Anyone participate in Destination Imagination?, 7/19/08, by Debbie.
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