Springboro DI team at Globals
Thursday, May 22, 2008
SPRINGBORO — A Springboro High School Destination ImagiNation team is competing in the Global Competition in Knoxville, Tenn., this week, May 20-25, representing the Ohio for a second time against a record 1,030 teams from around the world.
The team of seniors, calling themselves "Lost Train of Thought" include Sarah Blue, Chris Cavendish, Colin Celek, Justin DeCamp, Jonathan Head, Nathan McLaughlin and Conner Smallwood. The team also won the state title in 2006 as sophomores.
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Destination ImagiNation is a creative problem-solving competition in which teams of up to seven members are presented with a challenge and are given points for creativity, design, performance, engineering, use of materials and teamwork. Lost Train of Thought also won an Ohio State Renaissance Award for engineering for their work at the state tournament in April.
In addition to their regular challenge, they will be the only Ohio team compete in a DI eXtreme MAX competition, which was designed for college and military teams but has been opened to high school teams.
"The team feels very fortunate to get to compete at this level for a second time," said team manager Patti Celek."Adding DI eXtreme to the mix is incredible as last time they were fascinated watching the college students in this event."
In DI eXtreme Max, the team registers, receives a new challenge and has two hours to solve it with only two suitcases of randomly chosen materials. During the teams' "tinker tank" time, they will be disrupted three times and required to make changes.
This team has won first place in regional competition all four years of high school and garnered several DaVinci and Renaissance awards for creativity in performance, teamwork and engineering.
