> off_world_beings wrote: > Wow. Global Finals with not a single placed winner from any other > country. Not surprising since no-one outside the US has ever remotely > heard of this. I always love it when US makes 'World finals', 'World > Series' in things no-one else plays. It really does point to a very > serious National psychosis.
Destination ImagiNation Global Finals took place May 25-28 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. During the three days of competition 900 teams (8,000 kids) compete in 5 different challenges. Each challenge has three divisions, elementary, middle and secondary/university. There are approximately 12,600 (80,000 kids) teams that compete in DI worldwide. Only 10 % go on to Global Finals. There are 12 countries that participate: Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Guatemala, Korea, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom, Venezuela and the United States. Most of the teams are from the US. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment Tops the World in Creativity Competition Winning More First-Place and Second-Place Awards Than Any Other School in the World! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Not only did Maharishi School students win more first- and second- place awards than any other school in the world Destination ImagiNation competition held last weekend in Knoxville, they also won more first- and second-place awards than the entire state of California � and every other state, with the exception of Texas. Their total of five first- and second-place awards compares to a total of four won by the 27 schools entered from California. Schools from Texas won a total of seven, and Wisconsin had three. All other states and countries had fewer first- and second-place awards. There were 860 teams competing from nearly as many schools � all of them at the global competition by virtue of having been state or country champs. There were 40�60 teams in each category of competition. Unprecedented Success "This level of success is just unprecedented," said coach Mark Headlee. "No other school that I know of has ever done anything like this." Speculating on the reasons for their success, Mr. Headlee noted that being a private school or being highly intelligent students doesn't explain it, because the same is true of many of the other participating schools. In fact, schools often reserve this program for their top students in the talented-and-gifted program, in contrast to Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment�, where any student can participate. He believes their success is the direct result of Consciousness- BasedSM education. "Students are able to integrate this knowledge with their creative expression. The Transcendental Meditation technique is the only variable by which you can explain this phenomenon." Destination ImagiNation Destination ImagiNation is an international creative-problem-solving program that develops cooperative teamwork and critical thinking, as well as building technical and performance skills. The participants come up with ingenious and often wildly entertaining solutions to complex challenges. There are five separate problem challenges for each of three levels of education: elementary, middle, and secondary. Our Maharishi School winning teams were: Middle level Live! It's RaDIo DI � 1st place Sec. level Sudden SerenDIpity � 1st place Middle level DIsigning Bridges � 2nd place Sec. level DIsigning Bridges � 2nd place Sec. level Live! It's RaDIo DI � 2nd place In addition the elementary Live! It's RaDIo DI team got 5th place. The secondary Live! It's RaDIo DI team, received a Renaissance award. Maharishi School sent 12 teams to the State Destination ImagiNation Competition held in Grinnell College at the end of March. Our teams competed with 122 other teams from around the state. Seven of our teams came in first place qualifying them to represent the state of Iowa at Global Finals. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
