Teams
A DI team comprises anywhere from two to seven members and one or two team managers, who must be 18 or older to be head manager. The Team Manager of each team serves only as a facilitator; he or she is prohibited from assisting the team in its solution.
Though the team is often associated with a public or private school, community organization, or church, any group can register for competition. Groups must first purchase a membership through Destination Imagination, Inc. After that the team registers with its local DI affiliate. Teams also have the chance to choose their own name by which they are identified for the duration of the year.
Each team is registered to participate at a certain competition level, which is decided by the age of the oldest team member.
- Rising Stars: grades K-2 or 5–9 years old
- Elementary: grades K-5 or no student above 12
- Middle: grades 6-8 or no student above 15
- Secondary: high school or no student above 19
- University: college, graduate school and armed forces with no younger students
Teams can include up to seven members No maximum restriction exists if the team is within the Rising Stars category. After being formed, each team chooses a Team Challenge, which it will work to solve until the first competition. The team works together to create a solution, to present it on tournament day.
Read more about this topic: Destination Imagi Nation
Famous quotes containing the word teams:
“A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not “studying a profession,” for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)