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Deb
Woods explained to me that the Nashoba
Regional School District is sending four teams (two from Stow’s
Hale Middle School and two from the regional high school) to
the Destination Imagination Massachusetts
State finals on April 1st at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
They competed with 150 other teams
from other schools in Massachusetts,
Deb explained nearly breathless with excitement, and all four teams came in either first or second and are going to the Global
Competitions in Knoxville, Tennessee on May 25.
I clicked the link (http://www.idodi.org) that Deb sent me about Destination Imagination. What is Destination Imagination? It’s a vehicle for
channeling the positive energies of youthful competitors into taking "what they know and what they are good at and learn to
apply it to solve challenges, working togeather and cooperatively with a team and pushing the limits of imagination to best,
not their competition, but themselves."
Deb continued, “The competition included a challenge called Inside Dimension where kids ad to build two structures
that together weighed 14 grams. That’s about the weight of three nickels
and then it had to hold weight. The Hale team’s structure held 560 pounds. The Nashoba team’s structure held 450 pounds.”
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| The 14 gram structure is the little one inside the wooden block safety cage |
“The second Hale team’s challenge was called “Back at You”.
They had to perform a skit and design a device that would send and return ping pong balls.” Their design, Deb explained, served up and returned a basket of 291 ping pong balls.
The second Nashoba team’s challenge was required to perform an all theatrical skit called “How’d
that Happen.” They were required to design scenery and costumes and write
the dialogue
From Hale: The "Back At You" team comprised of Robbie Enzmann, Thomas Granger,
RC Howe, Caleb Wisch, Alicyn Reverdy, Claire Lavina, and Jason Zelle.
The "Inside Dimension" structure team comprised of Kaitie Ryan, Natasha Don,
Sam Squires, Kate Wachs, Sam Masters, and Cory Masters.
From Nashoba Regional High
School: The "Inside Dimension" structure
team comprised of Meghan Ryan, Molly Porche, Rebecca Krantz, Jeff Bagdigian, Nick Papanasstassiou, Alex Papanasstassiou and
Nick Lawrence from Bolton.
The "How'd That Happen" team comprised of Nate Rugo and his team mates from Bolton and
Lancaster.
The Nashoba HS team that did Inside dimension and held 450 pounds was comprised
of Meghan Ryan, Rebecca Krantz, Molly Porcher, Jeff Bagdigian, Nick Papanastassiou, Alex Papanastassiou, and Nick Lawrence.
The other Nashoba high school team consisted of Nate Rugo and team mates from
Bolton and Lancaster.
Deb
added, “The effort, team work and creativity that these children showed all of us on Saturday were truly amazing. They deserve a standing ovation as well as our admiration, credit and support. Please join me in congratulating all the teams from Stow for a job very well done
and to provide the teams moving on to the State finals an extra amount of our support.
With
the kid’s success comes another big challenge and its one in which you can help.
We are sending 20 kids to the Global Competition in Knoxville, Tennessee. To get there, the kids need to raise $30,000 in the next six weeks.
You
can help by writing a check to the “Friends of Stow Destination Imagination” and mailing your tax deductible contribution
to Carole Makary, 156 Taylor Road, Stow, MA
01775. The kids thank you.
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