Valentine's Day is Coming

With February 14th right around the corner, don't forget your loved ones.

Schedule coming!

I am getting ready to post the schedule for the remainder of the year.  Will you have conflicts?  Of course!  The will be numerous meetings and I don't expect perfect attendance.  At the same time, this may be your last chance to go to state or beyond.  You will get from it what you put into it, so do your best to work it out.  During the last week, it would be best for the team to attend DI, don'cha think?

For next week: Regular meeting Monday night and Instant Challenge night is Friday 2/6.  We will meet at MI 5/6 building at 5:45, do the event and then I will drive the team to my house where we will have a short meeting until 8:30. Parents can pick you up then. If you need a ride to MI 5/6, let me know.

Great job and Get Well Amanda!

Great job on gathering supplies Monday.  This week you will organize materials and make a costume for your sleuth...do you know what yours looks like?  Do the research and be ready on Monday.  

Say a prayer for Amanda who is quite under the weather.  We look forward to seeing her healthy and back to her smiling self soon.

See you 6:30 Monday!

Visualize SOD

Here is the prototype (Thank you Tyler!) of you Superstition Origin Detector.  For Monday, bring in as many of the materials as you can and (if you guys plan it) get some items at the thrift store. Save any receipts and we may get them reimbursed.  You will try to build to SOD with the items you bring.  I will be gone all weekend, so I cannot be a part of this adventure.  But Jacqueline is here and you guys can organize it and go.  Communicate and make it happen!  Also, everybody please re-read the problem again.  If you can't find yours, go to the link earlier in the blog and print another copy.  Finally, if you need to, finish any research on your sleuth (a few interesting facts and how you are going to be able to portray him/her-what do they look and sound like).

See you Monday at 6:30.  

See what it takes

If you go to youtube and search Chorific you can see the group that won the DI globals in improv last May.  Notice their enthusiasm, the way they got their researched character at the beginning and how they handled it, and their elaborate costumes.  Do you think they came up with all of this in 30 min?  Well, yes and no.  They obviously had a good framework of ideas they had practiced to build on, but there were variables they had to incorporate on the spot.  While it is hard to hear all the dialog, I was able to follow the story (it was pretty simple).  

We will watch it at the meeting on Monday (6:30-8:30) too in case you missed it.  See you then!

Meeting notes from 1/5

Let's get down to business.  Sleuth research, genre research and a  1st attempt at a vehicle need to be done by next week.  Everybody needs to look at the materials list and if you have any item you can bring in that would be great.  Ideas about what can be done with any of the materials should be jotted down as well.  See you next Monday at 6:30.

Monday January 5th Meeting

Meetings resume this coming Monday, 6:30-8:30.  I would like the meetings to increase to 2 hours because you have a lot to do.  You are going to make a plan of what you want to accomplish by when and then get started.  If you want to be competitive, the work starts now and the reward is March 14th.  Right?

See you Monday!