D.I. did terrific!!!

In October, Paige was invited to join a D.I. team (D.I. stands for Destination Imagination). D.I. is a science based problem solving program. Each team of 7 or less (boys,girls or mixed teams) are given two challenges. One is called 'instant challenge' wherein they are given a random assortment of items (paperclips,paper, etc ) and asked to build something specific with these items....usually its a structure that doesn't fall etc....the other challenge is one the team picks..they have a choice of one of five topics and they work on this for five months before they go to regionals...
So...last Saturday about 60 teams met at the local high school to compete for spots in the State finals. This was Paiges teams FIRST time doing D.I and therefore obviously their first time at competition. While they did not win a spot in State (THANK GOD!!!), their team DID win the Da Vinci Award for Overall Best Creativity!!! Not bad for a first time team to take this award over all the other teams!!!
Below are two pictures of the winners....three of the team members didn't come back for the awards ceremony, which was too bad because they missed the chance to shine in front of their peers!!
Way to go Paige,Twila,Ursula,Sarah,AJ and Danielle!!!
Next year (when we are more experienced and more prepared), we go to State??