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Category Archives: Instant Challenge
Instant Challenge Success Day
Building the Skills for Instant Challenge Success! Teamwork Creative Problem Solving Presentation Skills Properties of Materials If you’ve taken our IC workshop before, you learned what kinds of Instant Challenges to expect. Now get ready to learn how to teach your team the skills they need to solve any DI challenge they encounter! This hands-on class includes strategies and exercises as well as new challenges for practice and insight to new IC competition trends. If you think you’ve done this one … Continue reading >>
6 New Warm-Up Exercises
Warm-up challenges are meant to get your team jump started. They are quick 5 minute improv exercises. The team has 3 minute to plan and 2 minutes to perform. Props may be imaginary. Scoring is based on the creativity of their solution and character development. Up to 25 points for creativity of the solution and up to 25 points for character development – for 50 points possible. Your main character is a talking mouse, the place is a fancy restaurant, … Continue reading >>
Gift Wrapped – A Combination Instant Challenge
Challenge: Your team is to design three unique ways to wrap a birthday gift. The Scene: Three of your friends are having birthdays. You are giving them the same gift but need to wrap them three different ways so you can tell them apart. Each of your friends has different personalities so your challenge is to design the wrapping to match the person receiving the gift. Time: Your team will have 4 minutes to design and wrap the three gifts … Continue reading >>
Warm-ups Challenges
Warm-up challenges are meant to get your team jump started. They are quick 5 minute improv exercises. Use 3 minute to plan and 2 minutes to perform. Props may be imaginary. Scoring is based on the creativity of their solution and character development. Up to 25 points for the creativity of the solution and up to 25 points for character development – 50 point total possible. Use sponges to make a flag that will help you mow the lawn, but … Continue reading >>
Instant Challenge Fun – Slowest Maze
Challenge: Your TASK is to design a maze that makes a marble roll as slowly as possible through it. Time: You will have 7 minutes to use your imagination to create a maze and practice using it, and up to 2 minutes to run a marble through the maze. Set-up: On a table are materials your team can use to create a maze. Procedure: Part One, 7 minutes. Using the box and materials that are provided, create a maze that … Continue reading >>