Greater Fort Worth Regional Tournament
Saturday, March 5th
at Byron Nelson High School
in Northwest School District
This was my third year coaching or mentoring a D.I. team. It is always an amazing, tiring, rewarding, crazy experience! I had a team of 4th graders, including Nick, this year. They came up with a fantastic team name: "To D.I. For"
and they tackled Challenge C which is called TRIPLE TAKE ROADSHOW
and it includes the following:
- Use three different Storytelling Methods to tell the same story to three team-chosen Pretend Audiences
- Portray the Travel Methods used to move your Traveling Road Show between different Pretend Audiences
- Integrate a team-created Technical Spectacle (science & technology) into one presentation to a Pretend Audience
Focus on:
Playwriting, Theatrical Presentation, Storytelling, Storytelling Relevance, Special Effects,
her mom taught us about stage make-up
they practiced doing each other's clown make-up
Our team had a blast! They worked hard and came up with a clown cooking show (making "chalk-late" pie and HOT dogs in a tanning bed) that they did (1) as a TV show, (2) as a story-telling, and (3) as a musical, called Clownical, The Musical. Nick played a clumsy ballet clown and sang his heart out! Great voice developing in this kid!! yea!! and he is quite funny and at ease on stage, although he didn't like to rehearse very much. Here's a photo from the props preparation (their taco car):
at the awards ceremony:
after the ceremony, going to the car wrapped in the sleeping bag we sat on in the gym; it was a chilly night...
love these two dudes!!!!
