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DI District meet was today. Our middle school team was the only one at that level doing 'Unidentified Moving Objects'(or something like that!) So, on to the state competition in 5 weeks.
Our kids participated in OM, some 20 years ago. The programs are similar, but I think they're segregated geographically.

Congratulations OHGrandma!!

We won 1st place in "Verses, Foiled again". We have states in 3 weeks. Maybe we really will be able to meet each other at globals.(fingers crossed)

Congratulations, guys!

Our regional meet is next Saturday. DS8's team seems to be doing very well in practice, as of this week, so we'll see! They were running way over in time, but it appears that they've got the bugs worked out. We're in "Unidentified Moving Objects".

I have my fingers crossed for you Nautigal!

I really had my doubts for our team. The building stress over the impending competition was overwhelming for the kids. They were melting down at every turn.

Congratulations to everyone who competed in DI; I helped coach a team for a few years, and remember it fondly. The kids felt so accomplished, regardless of how they did in the competition. I remember just wishing every child could have the opportunity to participate in the program, to have the opportunity have enrichment in critical thinking and creativity.

Hats off to the coaches!

I coached a Rising stars team for the first time, amazing experience and way to get started in the program! My older kids got 2nd place in Mythology Mission, so off to state:) DI is such a great 21st century thinking skills program, wish it was part of the gifted programming in our district, but I help make it happen at our school- we had 8 teams this year:)

Congratulations slpmom!!

Eight teams, that's great! We only had 4 teams this year. It was a very low year. Last year we had 16 teams.

Congrats, slpmom! Good luck at state!

We have 8 teams this year as well, thanks to my DH's fundraising efforts. Last year was the school's first try at it, and they did it as a GT thing, with 4 teams (one noncompetitive little guys). This year they wanted to expand it for anyone who wanted in, so we had to come up with some outside money.

Whew, we had a great day! We took six teams (two of our teams were little guys) to regionals today, and came home with three 1st place trophies, including my son's team! We also had two 4th places, and one team didn't get any points because of technical difficulties with their structure.

We are shocked and amazed at DS8's 1st place, as they didn't even finish inside the time limit! So while we (or at least I) had resigned ourselves to "ok, better luck next year", now we're scrambling to make plans for the trip to Denver again! Yeehaw!

Congrats!