● Design and build assembly equipment and destruction equipment.

● Use the assembly equipment to create a stack of items.

● Use the destruction equipment to disassemble and/or destroy the stack.

● Create and present a story about a character who lacks something important and attempts to gain it.

● Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

● Design and build a transporter that will be tested during the team’s Presentation.

● Complete weight transport tests to test how much weight the transporter can carry along a tournament-provided cord at various angles.

● Create and present a story in the style of contemporary circus.

● Include a daring display and an ensemble spectacle in the Presentation.

● Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

● Create and present a story in which a character who is located on a planet other than Earth thinks they are alone but discovers that they are not.

● Include technobabble in the story.

● Design and build a device and/or effect that demonstrates what the technobabble describes.

● Include a scientific demonstration that shows the science behind why a specific phenomenon of the planet happens and/or exists.

● Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

● Create and present a story about how something small and/or simple can create a big impact.

● Include a focal character in the story.

● Include an emotional moment in the story.

● Design and create a minimalist set.

● Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

● Create and present an improvisational skit about a traveling character.

● Research locations and show the character’s route between a starting location and an ending location.

● Research modes of transportation and incorporate one into the skit.

● Include a seeker and a detour in the skit.

● Identify, design, carry out, and evaluate a project that addresses a need in a real community.

● Create and present a story about a character who must make a critical choice.

● Include at least two potential outcomes and a complication in the story.

● Include a device that completes two different tasks from the same initiation in the Presentation.

● Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

● Research different kinds of weather.

● Create and present a play about a character learning about a kind of weather for the very first time.

● Include a teacher character and a special weather activity in the story.

● Design and create a weather costume and a weather special effect.

● Create and present one Team Choice Element that shows off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

In a world with growing cultural connections, increased levels and types of communication, and a new need for real-time teamwork and problem-solving, the ability to solve problems quickly is becoming increasingly critical.

Each team will be asked to solve an Instant Challenge for their DI tournament.

Instant Challenges are kept confidential until it is time for teams to solve them.