To: Elizabeth Fierro, Announcer
Challenge/Level:
Live! It’s RaDIo DI!/ EL
To: PB Smith Elem
Challenge/Level: DIsigning Bridges/EL
This team had a storybook at the center of their performance. Their design allowed the book to lie flat on the floor, with pop-ups at each turn of the page and folded away nicely, allowing the story to flow without interruption or mishap.
To: Agnor-Hurt Elem
Challenge/Level: Live! It’s RaDIo DI /EL
The presentation allowed the appraiser to visualize actually sitting in front of a radio listening to a radio. They had an outstanding story, great sound effects showing creative thoughts and performance.
To: Daniel Morgan MS
Challenge/Level: Sudden Serendipity/ ML
This team used a combination of simple machines and electrical components to create a lifelike invention. Using a myriad of electrical components, the team wired a fully functional device made of motors, pulleys, springs, switches and lamps. A simple flip of a switch activated a motor, to wind up a string, to pull a stopper, to release a spring, causing a replica of an x-ray photograph to pop up like bread from a toaster - all the while turning on a strobe light to represent a camera flash and two black lights over 15 feet away.
To: Ocean Lakes MS
Challenge/Level: DIsigning Bridges/SL
This team used a uniquely designed arch for their bridge. Although some of their “Gorilla Glue” had not yet dried, they had adjustable tension braided fishing lines which worked to hold the arch shape and were “tuned” by matching sound frequency of the lines when plucked.
To: Marion MS
Challenge/Level: IMPROVing Along/ML
Bring
on the battle of the Kings. In this main challenge solution it’s Elvis versus
the Shark Surfer, with the content decided in the song, “Hunka Hunka Burnin’
Lava.” Creative construction of a surfboard/stage carried along by wave action,
and an instant replay of surfing and singing skills by the King himself gave
the audience and appraisers a trip to
To:
Challenge/Level: IMPROVing Along/SL
The
To:
Challenge/Level: DIsigning Bridges/SL
This team
told a very compelling story of a mother and son’s journey from ancient
To:
Challenge/Level: DIsigning Bridges/EL
This team
used peanut butter and jelly to tell the story of Nelson Mandela. Their use
of pop-up props, wriggling worms, creative costumes, allegories for apartheid,
humor in the script, and beautiful replica of the
To: Roanoke Catholic
Challenge/Level: Sudden SerenDIpity/ML
This team created and built a hovercraft machine designed to move around a teenager’s room and clean it up for them. This machine employed an air blower that actually worked to raise the platform off the ground while one of the team members was standing on it.
To: John Handley HS
Challenge/Level: Sudden SerenDIpity/SL
This team’s
innovation with the design of their invention was superceded by the creativity
and depth of their performance. Every aspect of their solution was planned
and deliberate, from color symbolism and metaphors to costume design and dialogue.
Themes of “old country vs. modernism” ran through their entire solution. Their
differing views of the characters were not presented in a small, special segment,
but rather integrated into their entire performance, forcing the appraisers
to think way outside the box.