Press Release for Portsmouth
Middle School, Rhode Island
Spring Car Wash to finance
Dude and The Royal Flying Omelettes
The Portsmouth Middle School’s Winning Destination
Imagination Team
as they head to the World Finals
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A SPRING CAR WASH, Sunday, May 20, 10am to
1pm at Clements’ Market, East Main Road, Portsmouth,
to help our Portsmouth Middle School’s winning Destination
Imagination Team: Dude and The Royal Flying Omelettes, get
to the World Finals in Knoxville, Tennessee, May 23-27.
Destination Imagination is an “Olympics
of the Mind” and this Portsmouth Middle School team
are creative, dynamic, “Olympiads” in every
sense of the word. Dude and The Royal Flying Omelettes brought
home the gold when they won first place in their category
at the recent Statewide Destination Imagination Tournament
and have been asked to represent the State at the Global
Finals to be held in Knoxville, Tennessee on Memorial Day
weekend. This is prestigious not only for the State, but
particularly for Portsmouth - this is the third year a Portsmouth
team has represented Rhode Island at the Global Finals.
It speaks highly of the caliber of student in the Portsmouth
Schools.
Destination Imagination demands that the
participants develop their creative problem-solving skills,
create a strong and well-adjusted team, and further develop
discipline and organization in order to complete the assigned
tasks. The students are asked to solve problems both “on-the-fly”
in the Instant Challenge category, and over a longer period
of time in their larger and more complex Challenge. All
assigned problems have designated parameters within which
the students have to work. This in itself presents problems
which need to be solved. The solutions are judged heavily
on their creativity as well as their ultimate solving of
the problem.
This Destination Imagination team had never
have worked together before and so did not know each other’s
strengths (and weaknesses). Amongst creative people differences
of opinion obviously arise and the students learned to deal
with these in creative ways all the while maintaining a
strong team work ethic. This aspect of DI alone tests their
individual and team merit and at each tournament Portsmouth
students have shown their winning colors.
Dude and The Royal Flying Omelettes won First
Place - and received some of the highest scores ever assigned
at a tournament.
We hope for the continued success of the
Destination Imagination program in Portsmouth.
