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RCPS Teams Advance to Global Finals

Two Rockingham County Destination Imagination teams, the Rockingham Cross County Team (high school) and the Purple DI Eaters (Montevideo Middle School), will compete at the Destination ImagiNation Global Finals at the University of Tennessee from May 26 - 29, 2010.

Over 970 teams from throughout the United States and over 20 foreign countries will compete there. Teams advance to this competition having competed on a regional and state level successfully.

The Rockingham Cross County Team participated in the Breaking DI News challenge. In Breaking DI News, the high school team designed, built, and tested a structure made only of newsprint and glue. The props and scenery used in the presentation had to fit inside a 30in x 24in x 48in container. They had to use a story about a Newsworthy Event in a nation other than your own and recycle newsprint by using it creatively in a costume or prop.

The Montevideo Middle School Team did the Do or DI challenge. In Do or DI the team created a five-minute improvisational skit about a "Threatened Thing" in danger of extinction. This must be done in a seven-minute preparation time period at the tournament. The skit had to include a stock character randomly selected from a list of stock characters that the team has previously researched. In addition, they had to integrate a randomly selected Unimpressive Superpower that is revealed during the skit.

Congratulations and good luck to these teams as they represent Rockingham County at the University of Tennessee in May!

The Rockingham Cross County Team (left to right) Coach Lori Swortzel, Craig Jamison, Meagan Swortzel, and Levi Puckett.	The Montevideo Middle School Purple DI Eaters (left to right) Athyna Ischinger, Cynthia Mullins, Courtney Schwalbach, Emily Clatterbuck, Jenny Yang