Minnetonka Community Education

Grades 3-8 Congratulations to our 2020/2021 Global Finals teams! Check out this video to find out more! Teams of 5-7 members work together and unleash their imaginations to tackle one of five crazy challenges. Teams creatively present their solutions in a performance at a regional tournament. Destination Imagination (DI) is the world's largest creative problem-solving competition for youth, with thousands of participants across the U.S. and around the world. DI teams typically meet once each week from November through mid-March. Each team is managed by a parent volunteer and sets their own meeting schedule. Minnetonka DI teams consistently take top honors at every level! Participants learn to think on their feet, develop collaboration and leadership skills and have fun! MORE ABOUT DI: Destination Imagination is a project-based program that builds participants’ creativity, problem solving and teamwork in enjoyable and meaningful ways. The goals of Destination Imagination are for participants to: Foster creative and critical thinking. Learn and apply creative problem solving. Develop teamwork, collaboration and leadership skills. Nurture research and inquiry skills. Enhance and apply written and verbal communication and presentation skills. Encourage competence in, enthusiasm for, and commitment to real-life problem solving. ABOUT OUR DI TEAMS: Minnetonka DI Teams... Consist of 5-7 members, often from the same school. Typically meet once each week from November to mid-March. Work together and unleash their imaginations to tackle one of five crazy challenges. Present their solutions in a short performance at regional, state and global tournaments. State tournament typically occurs around Spring Break, with Global Finals in May. Develop collaboration and leadership skills, think on their feet and have fun! ****Meeting dates and times will be set according to the Team Managers’ and participants’ schedules once teams are formed. TEAM MANAGERS: Each team needs an adult Team Manager to facilitate team meetings, tournament logistics and team safety. A good DI Team Manager must: Have a good sense of humor Appreciate creativity and innovation Enjoy working with children and young adults Be interested in helping young people learn creativity, teamwork and problem solving Have a positive and friendly attitude Training, resources and support for Team Managers will be provided. If you are interested in becoming a team manager, please indicate this when you are registering. Find out more about being a team manager here: Team Manager IMPORTANT DATES: Team Challenges Released: See link here DI Teams Created: Late October/Early November All Metro Team Manager Workshop (District 287): TBD (will be posted here) West/ Southwest Metro Tournament: Due to the continued presence of COVID and the Delta variant, MN DI will not be offering in-person regional tournaments. Virtual Saturday Regional Check Ins may be scheduled; dates for those potential events will be posted here. State (Affiliate) Tournament: TBD (Currently planned to be in person at Jackson Middle School in Champlin. MN DI is working on ways for everyone to participate, even virtually.) Global Finals: TBD (for those that advance)

Collaborate with fellow students to construct a city! Take home your completed world files at the end of class. Beginners and experienced Minecrafters alike will love this action-packed class. Technical Requirements Computer: PC (Windows XP or later) or Mac (OSX) with at least a 2GHz processor and 4GB of RAM Internet: Broadband internet with at least 1.5Mbps download and 600Kbps upload speeds. Webcam Microphone and Speakers Google Meet Minecraft Java Edition Information for logging into the session, will be sent the week prior to class.

Learn about synchronous and asynchronous movement, friction and sensor techniques. Build independently or in pairs working robotic models of military Tank, Landmine sweeper, commando soldier and military radar system. e2 Young Engineers offers an internationally acclaimed Robotics and STEM education program taught in 50+ countries. This program is recognized by Harvard School of Education and European Union as leaders in robotics and science education in the world. This is a problem and project-based learning program where students learn about new Robotics and STEM concepts in every class and apply those concepts by building unique and different operational robots and machines in every class.

Unleash your creativity as you work collaboratively! Create a world with others in multiple unique, themed lands. Build different biomes, or base a section on your favorite movie or video game! Meld your quadrants together with bridges, and separate them with moats of water, lava, or even the void! Students will get a copy of the world to continue development at home. Technical Requirements Computer: PC (Windows XP or later) or Mac (OSX) with at least a 2GHz processor and 4GB of RAM Internet: Broadband internet with at least 1.5Mbps download and 600Kbps upload speeds. Webcam Microphone and Speakers Google Meet Minecraft Java Edition Information for logging into the session, will be sent the week prior to class.

Unleash your creativity as you work collaboratively! Create a world with others in multiple unique, themed Escape Room Adventure Map. Our mission to race through the end and escape the Ender Dragon. Students will get a copy of the world to continue development at home. Technical Requirements Computer: PC (Windows XP or later) or Mac (OSX) with at least a 2GHz processor and 4GB of RAM Internet: Broadband internet with at least 1.5Mbps download and 600Kbps upload speeds. Webcam Microphone and Speakers Google Meet Minecraft Java Edition Information for logging into the session, will be sent the week prior to class.

Learn to create web pages! You will learn how to create an HTML web page, learn various HTML tags, and experiment with design, javascript, and CSS Technical Requirements Computer: PC (Windows XP or later) or Mac (OSX) with at least a 2GHz processor and 4GB of RAM Internet: Broadband internet with at least 1.5Mbps download and 600Kbps upload speeds. Webcam Microphone and Speakers Google Meet Information for logging into the session, will be sent the week prior to class.