1. Instant Challenge
TM Training

2. Team Manager Recap Registered with DI and received team number
Received hard copy of the Program Materials
Claimed your team at
Check website for Clarifications. (last day is Feb 15, 2015)
Met with team, chose Challenge, work on solution, have fun.
Following the Roadmap
Read your Challenge and Rules of Road

3. Team Manager Recap….. Set up a team calendar Got a snack schedule
Stay in touch with Team Parents
Ask Parents to help you
No Interference
Relax and have FUN! Remember, it’s the Process!
Practice Instant Challenges with your team
Giggle and eat Chocolate!!

4. To Do List
Register with Washington Imagination Network (WIN) at .
Volunteers* and forms
Parental Consent Forms
Special Circumstances (2 teams, sibling teams, other kid commitments)
Advanced TM Training, Tuesday, Jan 13, RSVP
Instant Challenge Workshop, Saturday, January 31, 2015

5. Tournament Appraiser*
*A word about your Volunteer Appraiser*
18+y/o Preferably NOT a parent.
DI Provides: Breakfast and lunch and a fun day
All Appraisers must be available for the following days
Training - Saturday, Jan , 2 hour training at KSS
Tournament - Saturday, Feb 28, 2015, 8am-5pm at KSS

6. Any Questions ? Concerns ? Doubts ? Nightmares ?!!!
Before we move on…..
Any Questions ?
Concerns ?
Doubts ?
Nightmares ?!!!

7. Creative Problem Solving against the Clock
INSTANT CHALLENGE
Creative Problem Solving against the Clock

8. What is an Instant Challenge?
Instant Challenge provides a chance for a team to show off its creative problem solving skills in a short, unrehearsed presentation to Appraisers. Although each Instant Challenge has different requirements, Instant Challenges reward teams for teamwork and the uniqueness and creativity of the team’s solution
IC’s are 5-10 minutes long
At the tournament, each team that competes in a specific Team Challenge in a specific Level will receive the same Instant Challenge. (Rising STARS)
New for No Electronic Devices (Rules of the Road pg 248)

9. Why do Instant Challenges?
A great way to learn and practice Creative Problems Solving (CPS) tools for use in the Central Challenge. (Read about CPS Tools in your Roadmap)
Great for team building
Instills confidence in team members
Team members can use techniques to help solve “challenges” in their daily lives - Remember we are teaching a process

10. Tips for Team Managers
Put together an Instant Challenge Toolbox- What’s in it?
Pipe-cleaners, mailing labels, non-flexible straws, paperclips, rubber-bands
newspaper, index cards, toothpicks, cardboard tubes, paper cups, paper plates, string, clothes pins, popsicle sticks, coin rollers, aluminum foil, paper bag, paper, corks, envelope, clay, spaghetti, unsharpened pencils or chopsticks, ping pong balls, markers, scissors, marbles, feathers, cotton balls, most anything from your recycle bin.
Jo-Anns or Michael’s Coupons

11. Tips for Team Managers….
Let the team play with the materials
Which materials are:
Connectors
Lengtheners
Strengtheners
Start introducing time requirements.

12. Tips for Team Managers Three types of Instant Challenges
Task / Performance /Combination
Practice IC’s in Roadmap, online, books and CD’s
Team Member roles:
Leader / Reader / Timekeeper / Techie
Rising Stars – Leader / Story person
Practice, practice, practice

13. At the Tournment – Rising Stars
The general logistical flow at a Tournament Instant Challenge Site
Rising Stars
ICs are usually three to ten minutes long
Immediately before their RS performance
Parents and audience can watch
Each team has a different IC
Simple and fun activity for the team to showcase their creativity and teamwork
- Development of story (beginning, middle and end)
- Use of materials
- Teamwork

14. At the Tournment – Competitive Teams
The general logistical flow at a Tournament Instant Challenge Site – Competitive Teams
Central Challenge time and IC time
ICs are usually five to ten minutes long
Teams will not know the IC until it is presented at the Tournament
No audience
Not every member must participate
Teams decide if one Team Manager may join them in the IC room
Teams may NOT talk about their IC, except PRIVATELY among themselves – Vow of Secrecy and Chill Out Room
IC scoring criteria may include but are not limited to:
- Development of skit - Character development
- Use of materials - Creativity of solution
- Teamwork - Effectiveness of solution

15. Now is IC Appraised? Complete their objective?
RS = Learning + Fun + Working Together
Creativity
So-so / Cool / WOW! It blew my socks off!
Teamwork / Team Dynamics
Mutual respect / Diversity of Skills / Team Roles
Performance
Beginning, Middle and End
Performance Skills
5. Sticky Notes / Sticky Notes and scores

16. Interference Two ways to commit Interference in IC room
If team knows the Challenge before their actual competition
If someone helps the team in the IC room during competition
A Team Manager can have a lot of fun working with team and training them in IC techniques
All CPS Tools can be taught to the team
Teaching CPS tools in IC is teaching skills
Have team practice all three types of ICs

17. Instant Challenge
Questions??

18. Task Based Instant Challenge
Focus is on team working together to move, build, change or protect materials they are given in order to complete a task or communicate information.
Evaluated on how well team works together to design the solution, effectiveness of solution and on the creativity of their final project

19. Task Based Instant Challenge
Focus and listen carefully to instructions (oral and written)
Practice giving everyone a part
Task completion
Know where the points are in the Challenge
Understand all possible uses for materials
Work through “alternative uses”
Use materials uniquely and creatively
Break into sub-groups if necessary -
Divide and Conquer

20. Performance Based Instant Challenge
Focus is on team working together to create and present a theatrically solution
Evaluated on creativity of performance, presentation and/or use of materials along with teamwork
Types of Performance-based ICs
With Props
Without Props
Team-created Props
Imaginary Props

21. Performance Based Instant Challenge
Speak loudly and clearly
Listen to instructions carefully
Practice giving everyone a part
Know where the points are in the Challenge
Listen to teammates when doing Improv
Don’t make unnecessarily long speeches
Practice talking yourself out of jam
Practice saving a teammate who cannot think of line
Practice using exaggerated movements / expressions
Make up own Improv games

22. Now it’s Your Turn….. Task Based IC Dish Duty All Aboard
Performance Based IC
Aquarium
First Day
Join the Circus
Birdcage
Combination IC

23. 9 Questions after every Instant Challenge
How did you do as a team?
How well did you manage your time?
What worked well? What didn’t work?
If you could do it again, what would you do differently?
How well did you use the materials?
Did your solution fit the scoring?
Did the solution work? Why? Why not?
Could it have been more creative? How?
What did you learn?

24. Improve your Instant Challenge Skills
Assign team jobs to be better organized
Leader/Reader/Timekeeper/Story/Techie
Switch jobs
Videotape the IC so the team can critique themselves, then ask, “What did you see?”
Repeat the IC, with a different solution
Remove or change materials
Re-run Instant Challenges
Divide into two teams and compete
Try imaginary props
Silence
Shorten the time frame

25. Play Improv Games Resource: Whose Line is it Anyway on YouTube
Party Quirks
Headlines

26. Instant Challenge Workshop
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2015
Klahowya Secondary School
Instant Challenge Workshop for Teams: 12:30pm– 4:00pm
IC Training for Appraisers and TM’s*: 11am- 12 noon
$35 per team / register by January 10, 2015
First Come First Served
Late registration $45 until January 20th
Optional activity

27. Instant Challenge Workshop Appraiser
The Instant Challenge Workshop Appraiser is different from your Regional Tournament Appraiser
In order to participate in the ICW:
Two Appraisers
18+ y/o
Parents are encouraged to participate
Training will be 11am - 12noon, Sat Jan 31, 2015

28. QUESTIONS?

29. Thank you for coming!

30. Thank You!