This weekend was the culmination of 3 months of hard work for Matthew and his Destination Imagination team. Destination Imagination is a competition which combines creativity, teamwork and ingenuity with technical, engineering, and problem solving skills. There were several different "challenges" to choose from incorporating all of the above. Matthew and his team chose a challenge called "Obstacles, of Course". Yes, it was an obstacle course, but with a unique twist. They had to build a vehicle (7"x 5" or somewhere close to that) that could maneuver an obstacle course, which they also created. And while someone drove the car through the obstacle course, the rest of their team had to do a skit relating to overcoming obstacles (acting, but no talking)! It was quite a feat! And they did a spectacular job, if I do say so myself. They used a circus theme, which they really had a lot of fun with. They came in first place in the competition, they were very excited about that, and have the opportunity to go to Knoxville, Tennessee for the national competition in May--If they can raise enough money to go that is!
2 comments:
Way to go, Matthew! Good job coming in first place! That ia quite an achievement. We are very proud of you. Hopefully you can build us a car that runs on something cheaper than $3.25/gallon gas soon! We will be the first to buy it!
Job well done Matthew!! I will have to agree with Becky,you need to get through school and start working on that real car that we can all benefit from. Way to go.
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