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• Design and build assembly equipment and destruction equipment.
• Use the assembly equipment to create a stack of items.
• Use the destruction equipment to disassemble and/or destroy the stack.
• Create and present a story about a character who lacks something important and attempts to gain it.
• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

Space, the final frontier…join us for this season’s Scientific Challenge as you explore the cosmos. Your team will tell a story about a character who figures out they are not alone on a planet. Show off your science fiction skills with some out-of-this-world technobabble. What will happen when you go beyond the stars?

• Create and present a story in which a character who is located on a planet other than Earth thinks they are alone but discovers that they are not.
• Include technobabble in the story.
• Design and build a device and/or effect that demonstrates what the technobabble describes.
• Include a scientific demonstration that shows the science behind why a specific phenomenon of the planet happens and/or exists.
• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

How can the simplest of things convey the most? Your team will tell a story about something small that can have a big impact and move the audience with an emotional moment. Be strategic with your use of color and shape as you design a big visual impact with your set. It’s time to explore minimalism in this season’s Fine Arts Challenge!

• Create and present a story about how something small and/or simple can create a big impact.
• Include a focal character in the story.
• Include an emotional moment in the story.
• Design and create a minimalist set.
• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

From beginning to end, we must travel a path to get where we want to go! Use your improvisational skills to tell a story about a character traveling between two locations. Include a character who is trying to find something and a detour that causes an unforeseen change in the plan or route. It’s time to hit the road with this season’s Improvisational Challenge!

• Create and present an improvisational skit about a traveling character.
• Research locations and show the character’s route between a starting location and an ending location.
• Research modes of transportation and incorporate one into the skit.
• Include a seeker and a detour in the skit.

Left or right, apple or orange, smile or frown…the world is full of choices! Your team will tell a story about a character who must make a critical choice after considering potential outcomes. A binary device will enhance your Presentation by completing two tasks at once! Where will your decisions lead in this season’s Service Learning Challenge?

• Identify, design, carry out, and evaluate a project that addresses a need in a real community.
• Create and present a story about a character who must make a critical choice.
• Include at least two potential outcomes and a complication in the story.
• Include a device that completes two different tasks from the same initiation in the Presentation.
• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

Rain, snow, wind, sun, and hail! There are so many different kinds of weather and lots of wonderful activities that can only be done during the perfect kind of weather. Your team will tell a story about a character who is learning about one kind of weather for the very first time. It’s a great day for some outdoor fun!

• Research different kinds of weather.
• Create and present a play about a character learning about a kind of weather for the very first time.
• Include a teacher character and a special weather activity in the story.
• Design and create a weather costume and a weather special effect.
• Create and present one Team Choice Element that shows off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

In a world with growing cultural connections, increased levels and types of communication, and a new need for real-time teamwork and problem-solving, the ability to solve problems quickly is becoming increasingly critical.

Each team will be asked to solve an Instant Challenge for their DI tournament. The team must think on their feet by applying appropriate skills to produce a solution in a short period of time.

Instant Challenges are performance-based, task-based, or a combination of the two. Although each Instant Challenge has different requirements, all Instant Challenges reward teams for their teamwork. Instant Challenges are kept confidential until it is time for teams to solve them.