Apr 10, 2008

Ava R-1 students competed in the 2008 Missouri Creative Adventures Destination Imagination competition Saturday, April 5th on the Missouri Southern State University campus in Joplin, Missouri. Four teams competed in the "Chorific!" event. This event had students trying to complete a chore with obstacles getting in the way and a famous person from the past showing up complicating the situation. Students used a variety of 'recycled' materials to create an improvisational skit in a studio for thirty minutes. Then students went to a staging area and had six minutes to complete a chore and perform their skits. Students were also involved in a performance based Instant Challange. In this event student were taken to a private room with two judges and given a task to complete in a limited amount of time. Teams involved were: "Dragon Fly" members included Cody Conrad, Levi Allen, Kelsea Pettit, Jake Rieken, and Whitney Taylor ; "Completely Unusually Insane Peoples" members included Sydney Schaeffer, Johnnie Carl, and Chris Ramsey; "Call Us What You Want" members included Trey Everett, Jimmy Roffmann, Kaitlin Lawrence, and Hannah Dudley; "Mindmakers" members included Tyler Johnson and Audrey Brandon. The "Mindmakers" earned third place at the State Destination Imagination competition. All teams performed very well. Judges from Ava were Dorothy Brech, Barbara Andrus, Roberta Long, and Jackie Carl.