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2009-2010 Team Manager
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Challenge B: DI -BOT Challenge Masters
Jim Butz (State, North Metro, Denver)
303-954-9032
Jim Stanek (State, North Metro)
303-733-6974
Chuck Wood (South Metro)
719-337-2400
Dick Witulski (Denver)
303-755-5911
Tim & Vilma Budzynski (Jeffco)
303-979-1471
Bev Chambers (Western Slope)
970-274-8394
Lisa Stanek (Boulder)
303-733-6974
Jerry Geiger (South)
719-564-2346
Joyce Ruddy (Pikes Peak)
719-593-7967
Dale Husk (Cherry Creek)
303-771-5859
Alex Melisaratos (Cherry Creek)
303-717-3370
TBD (SouthWest)
Challenge B: DI-BOT
• Focus of the Challenge
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Structural Engineering
Robotic Technology
Research
Technical Design and Construction
Science
Theater Arts
Teamwork
What your team should learn
• Research skills- how to find information for use in
developing a solution
• How to understand and interpret the challenge
• How to combine ideas and integrate multiple
contributions to form a truly ‘team’ solution
• Technical skills- how to saw, hammer, drill, sew,
paint, solder, assemble, test
• Performance skills- how to act, sing, dance, ad-lib,
write, make an otherwise dry topic interesting!
• Teamwork- how contributions from everyone are
needed to get from the start to a great performance
• Time management skills
• Pride in their accomplishments
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Understand the Challenge!
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Read the Challenge
Understand the Challenge
Question the Challenge
Read the Challenge Again
Read the “Rules of the Road”
Understand the “Rules of the Road” – Note changes
Question the “Rules of the Road”
Read the “Rules of the Road” Again
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Synopsis
Robots- doing our chores and serving our every
need! What could be better? Robotic Technology
has changed our lives and made our dreams a
reality. Gaming systems, cell phones, cars and
factories all use Robotic Technology. What will
Robotic Technology accomplish next? How will our
lives change because of it? You get to decide and
use your knowledge of Robotic Technology to show
us what may happen!
Challenge B: DI-BOT Points of Interest
Your team will:
• Learn about Robotic Technology and the changes it creates.
• Create an original Story which envisions and shows how at
least one character’s life may be changed by Robotic
Technology.
• Design, create, and integrate a device call a DI-BOT, which
completes a motion or task, into the story.
• Create a method to change at least one prop or set piece, or
part(s) of the prop or set piece, into DI-BOT, or a part of DIBOT.
• Create a scene change that enhances the Presentation by
providing an effective transitional link from one scene to
another
Other Details
• Time Limit: the team must complete the
Presentation (including setup) in 8 minutes
• Team Budget: Total value of material used in
the presentation may not exceed US $150
• Roadmap for Success
• Solvable on many levels from simple to complex
• Designed to engage a wide range of creativity
• Ask for clarification if you are uncertain of an element
of your solution
• If it doesn’t say you can’t – YOU CAN!
Challenge B: DI-BOT
The Central Challenge
• The Story:
• Create and present a theatrical presentation of an
original Story that is a clearly defined series of events
that unfolds as the Performance is presented.
• Story must include at least one character whose life is
changed by the Robotic Technology
• Only one character listed on the Tournament Data Form will
be appraised for this element
• Dramatic Portrayal of the effect of the change will earn points
• Team will research Robotic Technology and earn
points for integrating knowledge into the story
• Original story must have at least two scenes. Team
will earn point for creativity and clear and effective
presentation of the story.
Challenge B: DI-BOT
The Central Challenge
DI-Bot:
• Team must use what they learn about Robotic Technology to
design and construct a DI-BOT that is incorporated into the story
• DI-BOT is designed to interact with its environment and complete a
motion or task without direct physical contact
• Presentation must include at least one prop, or part(s) of the
prop(s) that visibly changes to become a DI-BOT or part of a DIBOT. Change can be simple or complex.
• Team may use any method to create the change INCLUDING direct
physical contact
• Change must occur BEFORE DI-BOT completes the motion or task
• Points for new/unexpected methods
Challenge B: DI-BOT
The Central Challenge
• DI-BOT:
• DI-BOT must complete a TEAM-DEFINED motion or
task during the presentation using technical methods
• Motion or task must be described on Tournament Data Form
• DI-BOT must complete the motion or task without Direct
Physical Contact by a team member
• No restrictions on the appearance of the DI-BOT.
Team must design and construct DI-BOT from team
supplied materials using their own ideas and skills.
• DI-BOT must NOT be a team member.
• Parts of DI-BOT may be commercially produced or
parts may come from kits.
Challenge B: DI-BOT
The Central Challenge
DI-Bot:
• The greater the team involvement in design and
construction, the higher the scores for technical
innovation and design.
• Teams should be prepared to explain to Appraisers
the ideas and skills used to design and construct their
DI-BOT.
• DI-BOT will earn points for its creative integration into
the story, for completing the motion or task, and for
Technical Innovation.
Challenge B: DI-BOT
The Central Challenge
Scene-Change Transition
• Team will create a scene change transition between two
scenes during the Presentation.
• See Challenge description for definition of scene change
• Can include means such as visual effects, sound effects,
staging, lighting, dance, dialog, others.
• Existing lighting at the performance site cannot be changed
• Points for successful presentation of the scenechange transition, new/unexpected methods, and
effectiveness.
Team ID Sign
Just do it.
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Side Trips
• Side Trips:
• Team must present TWO creations called ‘Side Trips’
• Must present Both Side Trips during Eight Minute
Presentation
• Must have meaningful connection to Central
Challenge Solution
• Side Trips show off or Showcase interests, skills,
talents
• This is the team’s opportunity to select items THEY
want to see scored by the appraisers
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Side Trips
• Side Trips – Cont’d:
• Team may create anything they wish for Side Trips
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Props
Music
Technical gadgets
Costumes
Physical actions
• May Present both Side Trips simultaneously if both
can be evaluated, identified, and scored separately
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Side Trips
• Side Trips – Cont’d:
• May NOT be specific item already scored in Central
Challenge – However;
• May be Single Unique part of a required item
• Must be able to be evaluated as ‘Stand Alone” item
• Points for:
• Creativity and Originality
• Quality, Workmanship, and Effort
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Other Notes
• Presentation Site
• Minimum 8 ft (2.43 m) deep X 10 ft (3.04 m) wide
• Will not be marked off
• Team may use any additional space designated as available
• Three pronged AC Power cord available at edge of Presentation
Area
• Clarifications
• First source: The Challenge
• Final word: Submit to DI and International Challenge Masters will
respond! (Usually within 48 hours)
• READ the General Clarifications on the DI website PLEASE!!!!
TWO were posted last night.
• RCM can answer questions specific to the regional tournament
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Scoring – Points Breakdown
17%
45%
38%
DI-Bot
The Story
Scene Change
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Scoring – Points Breakdown
Side Trips
15%
Instant
Challenge
25%
Central
Challenge
60%
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Safety
• SAFETY IS A TOP PRIORITY
• Team manager is key in teaching kids safe techniques for
designing, building, testing the solution. It’s not interference
to prevent injury. BUT- this does not give team manager
permission to do something for the team!
• Understand the rules for Chemicals, Electrical Devices, Dry
Ice, Helium
• No weapon-looking props
• Many Schools have a “No Tolerance” Policy
• Proper Eye Protection (If Required)
• Shoes / Foot Coverings
• Location-Specific Considerations
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Appraisers – The Audience That Scores
• Appraiser Roles and Responsibilities
• In ~10 to 12 minutes, evaluate the team’s solution to the
challenge
• Scoring evaluations that are consistent.
• Award each team as many points as possible.
• Appraisers will evaluate
• ~10 to 20 solutions at Regional and Affiliate Level
• 50+ at Globals.
Appraiser Perspective
• Appraisers will appraise what your forms tell them to
appraise!
• Be concise and be specific- use simple identifiers:
“girl in bluebird costume” rather than “Susie”
• For side trips, it helps for appraisers to know when
the side trip happens, and not to have to score two
items that are happening simultaneously
• Double and triple-check paperwork to make certain
all questions are answered properly
• The easier you make it for the appraisers, the more
they will see in your performance!
Team Interview
• Appraisers will interview your team after
performance to learn more about the
development and nuances of their solution
• This is the opportunity for your team to
explain neat features and details of props,
research, skills
• Appraisers will ask kids who worked on
specific aspects to talk about their
contributions, so expect everyone to be
involved
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Paperwork
• Ensure Team has all forms ready at check-in
• Tournament Data Form
• Declaration of Independence
• Expense Report
• Team’s Responsibility for Legible and Logical Forms
• OK for TM to write/type forms for elementary teams in Kids’ own words
• Middle and secondary teams are old enough to fill out their own forms!
• Team may want to read their forms and make certain everything is clear
• Appraiser’s Will Have ~2 Minutes To Read This, So Make It
Clear & Precise
• Appraisers Seldom Have Time To Thoroughly Read
Attachments
• Have Extra Copies With Backups
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Risk Taking
• DI Appraisers Understand and Appreciate Risk
Taking.
• Risk Taking is usually rewarded.
• Risk Can Come In Various Forms / Shapes /
Ways.
• Engineering - The Solution Itself.
• Humor - Magic.
• Complexity.
• Integration of Several Pieces.
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Management Hints
• The team may have trouble figuring out how to get started. Help
them break down the Challenge into pieces. Then ask them
“what is the easiest way you can think of to do this piece?”
Then let them build that.
• Once they have a trivial solution on the floor, they will see how
it all comes together and they will have a much easier time
seeing how to make it better.
• Once the team has a device that solves part of the Challenge,
no matter how weakly, encourage them not to destroy it until
the upgraded device is complete and functional. It’s always
good to have fallbacks.
• Younger children rarely come with time management skills. It
is part of your job to help them organize and schedule.
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Management Hints
• Your kids will each have different skills, talents, and interests.
Let them use them. If everyone hates art, maybe there
shouldn’t be any art in the solution.
• Help them focus on scoring elements. It’s very easy for
younger teams to get wrapped up in some feature that has little
or no scoring value, but completely ignore something
mandatory.
• Practice on as close to a full size floor as you can.
• Practice recovering when something goes wrong.
• Take field trips to Lowe’s and Home Depot, the public library,
museums, plays
• Keep it fun. Have frequent breaks. Practice Instant Challenge
a lot. Go out for Chinese food and see who understands the
chopsticks. Go to plays.
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Management Hints
• Keep track of costs, and make sure your parents know there
will be cost sharing.
• As you get to the last week, focus on mandatory items- review
the scored elements! Pace the kids during the last week. Get
the forms done. The last week is always stressful; be as
prepared for it as you can.
• Have at least some team members working on the story and
skit a month or more before Tournament, and be practicing it.
The first time you run through it, don’t be surprised if it takes
20 minutes. It gets better with practice. And it will go faster
than you ever dreamed at the Tournament.
• Your rights to critique the play and blocking and general
performance are very limited. Consider videotaping a practice,
having the kids watch it, and critique themselves.
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Membership and Signing Up
• Your school needs to register with (and pay) Destination
Imagination at the ShopDI web site. This will also register you
at the state level. Your school coordinator will probably do
this.
• Your team needs to sign up as a team under that school
registration. That will get you a membership number. It will
look like 106-NNNNN (ex. 106-22222). This is also done at
ShopDI; either you or your school coordinator will do this.
• Your team needs to register with your region. Procedures for
this vary from region to region. Some regions charge for this,
some have their costs paid by their school system. If you don’t
register with your region, there won’t be a time slot for you at
the Tournament.
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Clarifications
• If you have questions about this Challenge (for example, can
we do this; must we do this; what happens if we do this) and
it’s not obvious from the Challenge text, your team should seek
a Clarification.
• When you register your team at ShopDI you will get the
necessary materials for submitting Clarifications.
• You will get a fairly rapid response (24-48 hours) over e-mail.
Your answer will not be shared with other teams.
• You may ask up to 10 Clarifications, and you must ask by
February 15, 2010
• Bring your Clarifications to Tournament with you.
• Check the IDODI website often for General Clarifications that
apply to all teams. These happen when many teams ask the
same question.
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Tournament – Before the Big Day
• Have the team get your forms done and copied
• Help the team prepare a crash kit with essential tools and
spare parts, in case something breaks during the trip
• Make sure you know where you’re going and how to get there
• Make sure your team parents and grandparents know where
they’re going, how to get there, and what school and Challenge
they need to look for inside the school.
• Make sure you know how each team member is getting to the
school. You will be happiest if you meet them near home and
you travel in a convoy.
• Pack the cars the night before.
• Don’t let them stay up all night finishing stuff, unless they’re
high school.
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Tournament – Arrival at the School
• Plan to be at the site an hour before your performance, at least.
• You may want to drop props at the curb (with a parent guard)
then go find a parking place.
• Figure out how to get to the performance site before you start
parading props through the building.
• Parents can carry props! Give them something to do!
• Parents CANNOT assemble props. Even if they drop or break
something, the TEAM must repair and re-assemble.
• Find a convenient piece of hallway to set your props down.
• Have the kids check over the props and make any repairs
needed. Adults should not have tools in hand.
• Deal with snacks, restroom runs, makeup (Kids must do!) and
costumes. Remember- This is the Team’s Show!
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Tournament – Check-in
• No Later Than 20 minutes before performance time, the prep
appraiser will be looking for you. Be findable.
• The appraiser will invite you to bring your props to his check-in
table. Parents can still carry, then go sit down!
• Give the prep appraiser your forms.
• The appraiser will engage the kids in conversation and try to
keep them as calm as possible.
• When the previous team finishes, the prep appraiser will “walk
the floor” with the team, and then have them take their stuff to
the launch area. At this point team managers will be dismissed
to their seats, and should take any materials that will not be
needed in the performance such as tool boxes.
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Tournament – The Performance
• The Challenge appraisers may visit with the team if they have
questions about the forms.
• The timekeeper/announcer will visit with the team to discuss
photography and video taping, and how they want to be
announced.
• The timekeeper/announcer will announce the team, ask if they
are ready, and tell them to begin.
• The team then has eight minutes to move their stuff onto the
site from the launch area and present their solution.
• The timekeeper/announcer will call Time at eight minutes, and
the team will stop whether or not they have finished the
performance. Have your team plan to take a bow for all their
hard work!
Challenge B: DI-BOT
Tournament – After the Performance
• The Challenge appraisers will talk with the team about their
solution for two or three minutes. It’s helpful if the team knows
this will happen, and knows which team member is best
qualified to talk about what item.
• When the appraisers are done, parents should come down and
help the team remove the props.
• Raw scores will be available as soon as possible after the
performance, but rarely sooner than an hour. There will be a
sign for when scores are ready for your team.
• Do not destroy your props, even if you hate them, until after the
awards ceremony; teams often do much better than they think
they did, even if there is a major malfunction.
• The state tournament and Global Finals are enriching
experiences, but the real value of DI is in the skills, creativity
and teamwork your kids learn
Challenge B: DI-BOT
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