Globals report and summer news
Congratulations to all of the Maryland Globals teams! What an awesome job they did in representing our great State! Globals is my favorite part of the DI season because I finally get to see all the wonderful performances and talk to the kids. Though it was impossible to see all 34 of our teams, I was able to watch about 27 Maryland performances and was so proud of every team. Every performance was a success!
Maryland had 4 teams in the top 10 and another 13 in 11th – 20th place. That is absolutely amazing when we consider that there were no less than 50 teams in any one challenge and level.
So now all of our DI folks are taking a well deserved rest. But there is no rest for the Affiliate and Regional Directors. We will be attending the MD PTA Leadership Conference on July 17th and hope to introduce DI to lots of new schools. We are pleased to announce that the Prince George’s County school system has agreed to fund the purchase of at least 40 team paks for next season. They join Charles, Harford, St. Mary’s, Washington, Wicomico and Anne Arundel Counties in fully supporting creativity and problem solving in the schools. Regional tournament dates are being booked now and will be posted on our site as soon as possible. It’s going to be a great DI year.
Lastly, we are already working on next year’s pin designs and want the kids to be a part of the process. Please let your team members know that we want their pin ideas. Read the note on our home page and click the link to join the pin discussion. We will be accepting ideas through July. Then our committee will get to work on fine tuning the designs.
I hope you all have a great summer.
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