CONGRATULATIONS! What a
fantastic year we all had! All three of
our regions boasted incredible tournaments with outstanding creativity evident
everywhere! Team New York went off and WOWed everyone at D2k.1 and came back
excited to face a new season of challenges ahead. For the compete scores from D2k.1 go to:
http://www.destinationimagination.org/d2k.1/c_scores/d2k.1-TournamentResults.html
To view the results of just our
fabulous New York team go to nydi.org/d2k1nyresults.htm and for pictures of Team New York at
d2k.1 click here nydi.org/d2k1photos.htm
I'm
writing to you today to tell you about some exciting developments in the
Destination ImagiNation program for this upcoming year!
Previews
of the 2001-2002 Challenges are available at our website at: nydi.org/preview1.htm
Of
course I invite you to browse our entire website for information about our
wonderful program at our new address: www.nydi.org the old address (http://bfn.org/~nydi) will continue to work indefinitely but now our
new program and our URL finally match!
Also
new on our website are two other important documents - the 2001-2002 National
Passport Membership Application and our new 2001-2002 NY State Membership
Application - you can access both at: nydi.org/hqmemb.htm
When
you see the new applications you will note some very EXCITING changes in
membership options! First, I am VERY happy to tell you that membership
can now be attained by ANY youth group - boy or girl scout troops, YMCA groups,
church groups, PTO/PTAs, crafts clubs, sports teams, any group you can imagine
can now field teams to participate in our program! Additionally, seven students
may purchase a team membership without any affiliation to another group!
For years we have all wanted to make the benefits of our program available to a
wider number of students than our schools alone could support - these new
membership options will allow any seven students to find a sponsoring
organization/business, or sponsor themselves and participate in our program
along with our traditional school memberships! We hope this will take the
burden off many schools who would love to make the benefits of our program
available to the students within their districts but who are unable to do so as
a result of budgetary constraints! Please read the membership
applications carefully.
Also new is the fact that our membership base has changed from a 'per school building' base to a 'per team' base. Basing membership on the team will allow your Regional, State and National organizations to contact those working directly with teams more quickly and efficiently facilitating the flow of information to those who need it rather than going through channels. In recognition that some of our larger memberships which field many teams might be financially adversely affected by a change to a per team membership, the national and state organizations have made a "Value 5-pack" available so 5 teams may be purchased at a reduced rate.
Also new, and VERY EXCITING, is that teams may now select any Challenge in which they wish to compete with NO LIMITATIONS! What does that mean? Well, this past year if your membership wanted to have more than one "Mystery Loves Company" team at the elementary level they were required to purchase a second membership - in the coming year a membership may field teams in ANY CHALLENGE at ANY LEVEL with no restrictions - if your school/group wants to have 5 elementary level teams taking on the same challenge they may do so at no additional cost beyond the 5-pack membership!
For
2001-2002 EVERY membership will receive a packet of materials - hours of
downloading off the internet are a thing of the past! In each packet each
team membership (with it's own unique passport number for each team!) will get
printed information and a computer CD-ROM containing the Challenges and Guides
for the year.
Tournament
information is being finalized and will shortly be posted to the homepage of
our website (www.nydi.org)
- keep an eye on our website throughout the summer for important information!
If
you have any questions, or need assistance please do not hesitate to contact me
or your Regional Director, we stand ready to help you at any time and look
forward to working with each of you in the coming season.....
Creatively yours....
Dee Urban, Affiliate Director
Destination ImagiNation of
New York