Promoting and facilitating
Destination ImagiNation within the
2010 DI Olympics – Sunday, September 19
Aidan L., 1st-grader
The North Andover Destination ImagiNation Olympics is a collection of
outdoor sports-themed and team-building activities designed to evoke
creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, and improvisation in
a series of on-the-spot team challenges. Individuals sign up and are placed on
teams by the event organizers. At the event, teams move from station to
station, spending five to ten minutes attacking a different challenge at each
station. The event is run by
The 2010 North Andover DI Olympics will be on Sunday September 19, 2 - 6
p.m., at the
Grades K - 2, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Grades 3 - 8, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
The cost is $5 per participant, payable onsite.
Every participant will receive a patch.
Sign up online anytime between now and Wednesday September 15: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VDDZKL3.
Numbers of participants signed up
As of August 31
RS kids = 1
EL kids = 7
ML kids = 6
If you would like to help out at the event and will not have a child signed
up then please email olympics@nadikids.org.
All adult help must be properly CORI’ed within the
We are working to come up with this year’s activities!
If you have an idea for an activity then please email it to olympics@nadikids.org.
Click here to see the
patch designs.
2010/2011 Appraiser Registration
APPRAISER registration for 2010/2011 is now open. Please help the North
Andover DI program by volunteering to be an appraiser for a team this year! The
typical role of an appraiser is to attend a day of training in early 2010, then
help assess other teams’ performance at the regional tournament in February or
March. It is enormous fun and you will be saving one of our teams from having
to pay a substantial missing-appraiser fee.
Click
here to sign up online.
Appraiser registration closes October 15.
Please email Mike
McFadden or Dave
Ghikas with any questions about the role of an appraiser.
2010/2011 Team Manager Registration
TEAM MANAGER registration for 2010/2011 is now open. Whether you will
have a kid in the program or not, managing a DI team is an incredibly fun and
rewarding experience. Plenty of support and training for team managers are
available both within the
Session scheduling and team commitments vary widely. We have teams that
meet just once a week or every other week, and then there are teams that meet
for hours every week and practically live together during the week or two
leading up to the regional tournament. We have teams that meet in a school
classroom, library, or cafeteria, and then there are teams that meet in someone’s
basement or living room – either at one house consistently or rotating around
the different team members’ houses. The particular scheduling framework and
commitment level that works for you and your team is a decision that you make
with the team after sessions start and everyone has had a chance to become
familiar with each other, with the DI program, and with your chosen challenge
and perception of the work involved.
Rising Stars teams are automatically assigned the 2010/2011 Rising Stars
challenge.
The older teams (3rd-grade and up) have to choose one of five
2010/2011 competitive challenges. Choosing a challenge is a decision that is
best made by your team, as a team, after sessions have begun and the kids have
discussions about all five of the 2010/2011 challenges available. The age group
coordinators will do their best to form teams that are predisposed to a
particular challenge based on the information supplied online by participants
during the registration process, but this is not at all something locked in
stone. Selecting a challenge is a task that falls entirely to your team – to
your team, not to you - and the age group coordinators may
not even communicate to you which challenge it is that your team is predisposed
towards.
The 2010/2011 competitive challenges as well as the Rising Stars
challenge can be previewed here.
Click
here to sign up online.
Team Manager registration closes October 15.
Please email Mike
McFadden or Dave
Ghikas with any questions about what it takes to be a team manager.
2010/2011 Participant Registration
PARTICIPANT registration for 2010/2011 is now open.
Click
here to sign up online.
Participant registration closes October 15.
Click here for the payment
form and instructions ($30 per participant).
Please email Mike
McFadden or Dave
Ghikas with any general questions about the DI program.
Email Treasurer@nadikids.org for
payment questions.
Email Scholarships@nadikids.org
for a confidential need-based scholarship application.
2010/2011 Important Dates
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Date |
Event |
Contact |
Location |
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September 15 |
Deadline for signing up for the DI Olympics |
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September 19 |
DI Olympics |
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October 14 |
Fundraiser @ Chuck E. Cheese’s, 3:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |
Chuck E. Cheese’s in |
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October 15 |
APPRAISER registration deadline. |
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October 15 |
TEAM MANAGER registration deadline. |
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October 15 |
PARTICIPANT registration deadline. |
Mike
McFadden |
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NorthAndoverDestinationImagiNationPARTICIPANT |
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October 30 |
Café I Team Manager Training and Instant Challenge
Symposium |
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November 9 |
Fundraiser @ Fuddrucker’s, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
Fuddrucker’s in |
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November 30 |
Fundraiser @ Laser Craze, 10:30 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. |
Laser Craze in |
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January 18 |
Fundraiser @ McDonald’s, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
McDonald’s in |
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March 26 |
State Finals |
WPI |
2010/2011 Contact Information
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Position |
Name |
Email |
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Age Group Coordinators – Rising Stars |
Jeremy Dalmer |
jeremydalmer@comcast.net |
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Age Group Coordinators - Elementary Level |
Kim Hearst |
kimhearst@comcast.net |
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Age Group Coordinators – Middle Level |
Linda Pegalis |
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Treasurer |
Kim Hearst |
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Fundraising |
Susan Hazarvartian |
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Scholarships |
Linda |
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Publicity |
David Ghikas |
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Intro-to-DI and Information Sessions |
Mike McFadden |
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DI Olympics |
Jeremy Dalmer |
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T-Shirt Design Contest |
Jeremy Dalmer |
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T-Shirt Sales |
Jennifer Holloran |
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Instant Challenge Night |
Mike McFadden |
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Dress Rehearsal |
David Ghikas |
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End-of-the-Year Celebration |
Dan Fallon |
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MADI Coordinator |
Meredith Barnes-Cook |
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PTO Liaison, |
Dan |
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PTO Liaison, |
Susan Hazarvartian |
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PTO Liaison, |
Jeremy |
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PTO Liaison, |
Kim |
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PTO Liaison, |
Jeremy |
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PTAC Liaison, |
Linda |
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PAC Liaison, |
Dan Fallon |
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Spring 2010 State Tournament
Congratulations to
HyperXtreme for placing #3 in the
state for “DIrect DIposit” (EL)!
Di’sRespect (ML) for achieving a
“Spirit of DI” award at the state tournament!
Spring 2010 Regional Tournaments
Congratulations to all of our teams who worked so hard and had so much fun
at the regional tournaments!
Five teams “placed” within the top three teams for their age bracket and
chosen challenge:
HyperXtreme placed #1 in the EL
bracket for “DIrect DIposit” … and later placed #3 at the state tournament.
The
Athena’s Army (AA) placed #3 in the
EL bracket for “Do or DI”.
Di’sRespect placed #1 in the ML
bracket for “Breaking DI News” … and later achieved a “Spirit of DI” award at
the state tournament.
The Daring Einsteins placed #3 in
the ML bracket for “DIrect DIposit”.
2009/2010 T-Shirt Design Contest
Click here to see the 2009/2010
t-shirt designs
2009/2010 Rising Stars Teams (Grades K-2)
Friday Knight
Sargent/Atkinson, K/1st/2nd-grade
– Dan Fallon / Julie Fallon.
The Love Bugs
Sargent, K/1st/2nd-grade
– Kim Hearst.
The Dogs
Sargent, 1st-grade – Jennifer Holloran / Kerry Foraste.
GO DI
2009/2010 Elementary Level Teams (Grades 3-5)
Lego Einsteins (challenge B)
The DI Red Dragons (challenge C)
Kittredge/Atkinson, 4th/5th-grade
– Jeremy Dalmer.
Athena’s Army (AA) (challenge D)
Sargent, 4th/5th-grade
– Jeremy Dalmer.
The Milky Way (challenge B)
Sargent, 3rd-grade – Rob Doherty.
HyperXtreme (challenge A)
Sargent/home-schooled, 3rd/4th-grade
– Jennifer Holloran / Deb Lynch.
The Super Harley Flying Eggheads! (challenge A)
Sargent, 3rd/4th-grade
– Mary Litster.
The
Sargent, 3rd/5th-grade
– Linda Pegalis.
The Lunar Eclipse
(challenge A)
2009/2010 Middle Level Teams (Grades 6-8)
The Laugh A’lots (challenge C)
Di'sRespect
(challenge E)
The Daring Einsteins (challenge A)