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Three Lakeland District Teams Headed to Destination Imagination NY State Tournament Teams from Lakeland Copper Beech Middle School and Walter Panas High School took first place in the 2010 Eastern Regional Destination Imagination Tournament on Saturday, March 6th. A Lincoln-Titus Elementary School team will join the high school and middle school teams at the April 17th New York State DI Tournament. Lincoln-Titus', the Rocking Rolling Tornadoes, took third place in the "You're Gonna Flip!" challenge category. Walter Panas' Y DO DI? team took first in the "Direct DIposit" challenge. The Lakeland Copper Beech team, "Outside the Crayon Box," took first in the DI-BOT challenge. Eight District teams took part in the tournament which included five challenge categories. Also competing in the regional tournament from Lakeland were teams from Lincoln-Titus (the Silly Penguin Imaginaton and the DI Detectives teams), Van Cortlandtville Elementary School (the Shaker Quakers), Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, and Lakeland Copper Beech (GOT DI). DestinationImagiNation™ is the world’s largest non-profit, volunteer-driven organization devoted to helping kids gain practical life skills through interesting, entertaining and mind-boggling challenges. The after school community and school-based program begins in August/September when the year’s Challenges are issued. Teams of five to seven students organize, choose their challenge and work for months honing their solution. Volunteer team managers (parents, teachers or community volunteers) facilitate the group, but cannot give technical or other assistance. Teams present their solutions at local, regional and state tournaments, which narrow the field to about 15 teams from each state or international affiliate. These teams compete in the ultimate creativity showdown, Global Finals, each May.
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