Date: Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Location: Cresthill Middle School (map)

Time: 7:00 pm until you’ve got all your questions answered

Agenda:

• Turn in registration forms form for Tournament, Instant Challenge Day and shirt/pin order forms.
• General Question and Answer time
• Code of Conduct
• Instant Challenge Q&A and Instant Challenge Day information
• Teamwork Q&A
• Breakout with individual Challenge Masters

We are looking forward to seeing everyone there!

On line or paper registration and sales forms can be found here: Forms

• November 5th at Eldorado K-8, 3351 S. Indiana Street, Superior. (map)
• January 7th at South HS, 1700 East Louisiana Avenue, Denver, CO (map)

Time: 7:45 until 3:00

Agenda: Team-Manager-Training-2010-2011

The agendas for these trainings will be identical. You will:

• Learn about DI
• Meet your Challenge Master
• Practice Instant Challenges
• Choose classes on Creative Problem Solving, Storytelling, Conflict Management and many other topics chosen from Team Manager suggestions.

Can you be a Team Manager and not attend a training?

Of Course…. but why would you want to? Why would you miss all the great information to give your team the best advantage? Why would you make the Destination ImagiNation year harder on yourself by missing all the wonderful tips and trick? Why miss hanging out with other adults taking on the same challenge your team has taken on?

Best of all…. we’re just a really fun group!

It’s a bit messy and once I have a bit more time I’ll get it cleaned up and a version in pdf form for you to download. But I know you’re all dying to know the schedule! So here it is, the 2011 South Metro Regional Schedule:

2011 South Metro Tournament Schedule

Team Manager Meeting

Don’t forget our Team Manager’s Meeting this Thursday at 7:00 pm. Douglas County HS (map)  2842 Front Street, Castle Rock, CO 80104-9433. This is the perfect opportunity for Team Managers to look over the challenge site, pick up any shirts and pins the team ordered and ask those nagging questions you have. We will be in the North Building in the Lunchroom. Please do not arrive before 7:00, the tournament committee has work to do before we meet with you. If you can’t attend the meeting you are more than welcome to contact your Challenge Master with any questions.

Shirts and Pins

If you ordered shirts and pins but are unable to attend the Team Managers meeting to pick up your items we will have a location at the tournament holding them for you. Additional shirts and pins will be available for sale tournament day. Shirts are in limited supply/sizes and strictly first come-first served.

This will be a fun filled and educational evening for everyone…. bring the family, bring your team from 7:00 – 9:00 pm!

Can’t make it to the Tattered Cover that night? Purchase your copy of Jump! here and Bob will make a donation to Destination ImagiNation Colorado.

Additional resource materials will be available for sale at the trainings.

Please bring your lunch and a drink with you.

Team Manager Training Information

January 8, 2011: South HS, 1700 E. Louisiana Avenue, Denver, CO (map)

Looking for additional Destination ImagiNation information? If so, we have webinars scheduled just for you! These will be available on a first come, first serve basis, however, all NON metro area Team Managers will receive priority. There is room for 50, so we should be able to accommodate everyone who is interested. These are for COLORADO teams only.

Teamwork * Creative Problem Solving * Presentation Skills * Properties of Materials

If you’ve taken our Instant Challenge workshop before, you learned what kinds of Instant Challenges to expect.  Now get ready to learn how to teach your team the skills they need to solve any DI challenge they encounter!  This hands-on class includes strategies and exercises as well as new challenges for practice and insight to new IC competition trends.  If you think you’ve done this one before, think again!

Date: Saturday, December 4, 2010

Time: 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Where: Englewood High School Lunchroom, 3800 S. Logan

Cost: $20 per team manager (no team members at this training)

Information: Phone: 720-394-8597

Email: kris@extremecreativity.org

All participants must register in advance. To register download the PDF: IC Success Training Flyer Dec 4 2010

Send check made payable to Destination ImagiNation Colorado along with registration information to:

Destination ImagiNation Colorado

9249 S. Broadway Blvd., Unit 200-345

Highlands Ranch, CO 80129

Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM MST

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at: Sign Up Here!

This webinar will be exactly the same material and presenters as the “Verses!  Foiled Again” Team Manager training that will be presented live in Denver on November 13, 2010.  If you are unable to get to Denver’s Team Manager trainings because of time and distance constraints, here’s your opportunity to get the training you and your DI Team want and need for the “Verses!  Foiled Again” Challenge.

We will make this training as close to a “live performance” as we can.  We will answer questions both via e-mail (chat feature) and over the audio connection as much as possible.  If we are unable to answer your question because we are overwhelmed, we will try to respond to your questions directly after the Webinar.

The Team Manager Training Session will be November 16, 2010 at 6:30 PM and all you need are your trusty computer (for the video) and a set of speakers or a headset (for the audio) parts of the presentation.  The audio and video will be handled over the Internet so you won’t need an additional phone line for audio connectivity.  A high speed or Broadband Computer Internet connection is recommended.  Dial-up web access will not be an acceptable connection for this training.

Once you receive your notice of Registration, please do not share it with others – it is uniquely yours and I am not sure if any given registration can log in more than once.

We hope to “see” you there!

– Your “Verses!  Foiled Again” State Challenge Masters – Nora Johnson, Ron Dutton and Jim Sirko.

Title: “Verses! Foiled Again” Team Manager Training #1
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM MST
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer

James M. Sirko, P.E.
Sirko Associates, Inc.
12130 Pennsylvania St. #102
Denver, Colorado  80241
(303) 428-0901
jsirko@sirko.com
www.Sirko.com

This is your chance to get up-to-date information about specific challenges as well as to learn new skills that will help your team be successful.  The challenges are new every year, so there is always something new to learn. Morning workshops are scheduled so novice Team Managers can meet in separate groups to get their questions answered and more experienced managers can get the information they need.  In the afternoon, we will have skills workshops for team managers at all levels and years of involvement.

You are welcome come for as much or as little of the day as you want, but it’s important to know that TM’s who do not attend training often miss out on important information that helps their teams understand the challenges and be successful.

Team Manager training is our chance to support you as you take on the most important challenge of all – helping your kids to reach their full potential.

There are two dates for training; November 13, 2010 and January 8, 2011. Choose to attend one or both trainings.

Remember: The cost of this training is included in your membership and affiliate fees!

Metro Area Team Manager Training

November 13th, 7:45 am

Rangeview HS 17599 E Iliff Ave, Aurora, CO 80013 (map)

&

January 8, 2011, 7:45 am

South High School, 1700 E Louisiana Ave Denver, CO 80210 (map)

Team Manager Training Agenda

at Cresthill Middle School in Highlands Ranch.

When:  Thursday, March 4, 2010

Where: 9195 South Cresthill Lane
Highlands Ranch, CO 80130 (map)

Time: 7:00 pm

Usually we try to hold our final Team Manager meeting at the school where we are hosting the tournament. However, Englewood High School has their school play scheduled that evening and the building is unavailable. Instead we will go over the tournament site with maps. Englewood High School is a bit confusing so we’d appreciate it if you could make it to the meeting so we can prep you as best we can.

The 2010 Tournament Schedule will be available on the South Metro web site soon!