Six Medfield Teams Head To DI State Tournament

Medfield MA

07 March, 2022

5:39 PM

Description

Six Medfield Teams Head to Destination Imagination State Tournament Six Medfield Destination Imagination (DI) teams will compete at the State tournament the weekend of March 12th and 13th in Grafton, Massachusetts. Competing in the Elementary Engineering challenge are two 3rd grade teams: Logan Bergiel, Dean Childers, Nolan Herman, Josh MacLean, Sean Peters, Deke Pingpank, and Colin Reitz, managed by Lauren Bergiel and Beth Peters; along with Luke Behbehani, Evan Brady, Luke Taylor, Ben Tessier, Lily Zembron, and Elizabeth Ziegler, managed by Ben Taylor and Mara Ziegler. Competing in the Elementary Fine Arts challenge are 4th graders Jordan DaCosta, Elizabeth Hurley, Olivia Kay, Natalie Puglia, and Alex Wolfstich, managed by Maria Puglia and Christina Wolfstich. Competing in the Elementary Scientific challenge are 5th graders Maddie Abba, Elizabeth Barrette, Caroline Curry, Katie Dewar, Kacey Herrick, Bridget Kelly, and Annie Smits, managed by Michelle Barrette. Competing in the Elementary Fine Arts division are 5th graders Kameli Annigeri, Madison Crocker, Tess Healey, Tess Henebry, Charlotte Keefe, Lia Kenworthy, and Tenley Rogers, managed by Karyn Healey and Randal Kenworthy. Competing in the Middle level Service Learning challenge are 7th graders Naya Annigeri, Molly Cragan, Hannah Crocker, Sidney Heavey, Paige Henebry, Kate Kenworthy, and Keira Oliveto, managed by Mike Crocker and Randal Kenworthy. In addition to presenting a solution to their Central Challenge, each team will also compete in an Instant Challenge at the tournament. Scores from both their Central Challenge and Instant Challenge comprise their final score and the teams are then ranked. Teams who place top in the state tournament go on to represent Massachusetts in the global DI tournament May 21-24 in Kansas City, MO. The DI program is a fun hands-on system of learning that fosters students' creativity and curiosity through open-ended academic challenges. Teams, consisting of no more than seven members, choose to participate in either the engineering, fine arts, improvisational, service learning, scientific, or technical central challenge categories. In the elementary division, 3rd-5th grade teams compete against each other, while the middle level is comprised of 6th-8th grade teams, and the senior level has 9th-12th grade teams. There is also a non-competitive Rising Star division, for 2nd graders. DI's mission and vision is to teach students the creative process and empower them with the skills needed to succeed in an ever-changing world. In solving challenges using a student-driven, collaborative, problem-solving approach, DI participants learn patience, flexibility, persistence, time-management, and respect for others and their ideas. For more information, visit destinationimagination.org or madikids.org.