2025-26 CHALLENGE PREVIEWS

2025-26 Team Numbers will be available for purchase on Tuesday , July 15 .
You will get instant access to the Team Manager Roadmap & Practice Instant Challenges on July 15 .
You will get access to the good 2025-26 Team Challenges startingFriday , August 1.

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TECHNICAL CHALLENGE

The Technical Challenge prompts student to complete tasks by utilize technology , inquiry , strategic planning , and related skill .

• Create and present a game display .
• Include a horde reference and at least one contestant .
• Build tension with a raising-the-stakes event .
• Design and produce a gimmick , a reveal , and a razzle-dazzle effect for your plot show .
• Create and present two Squad Choice Elements that show off the team ’ sec interests , skill , areas of force , and talents .

Above and Beyond
ENGINEERING CHALLENGE

Our Engineering Challenge asks students to explore and use engineering skill and tool to plan and make solutions to specific application .

• Try out how much weight a team-created structure can hold by identify weights onto the Structure as far from the middle as possible .
• Create and present a story in which something important expands , extends , or die above and beyond .
• Begin the Presentation with anin medias resfit .
• Include an expansion effect .
• Create and present two Squad Choice Factor that show off the squad ’ sec interests , skills , region of intensity , and talents .

Unforgettable
SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGE

Our Scientific Challenge merge the wonder of scientific inquiry with the creative expression of performance art .

Did you regard that ! ? Exist you certain ? Can you entrust your memory , or hold your eyes been deceived ? Get out in this season ’ sec Scientific Challenge , when you search the science of human memory and misdirection . Make for a memory to living with your memory depiction , complete with a special effect . How will your squad cost remembered ?

• Create and present a story about how a reference recalling a memory take to a realization .
• Integrate your team ’ s inquiry about the skill of human memory into the Presentation .
• Create and present a memory depiction . Enhance the memory depiction with a peculiar effect .
• Include a misdirection in your Presentation .
• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team ’ s interest , skill , field of strength , and talents .

Become Super
FINE ARTS CHALLENGE

Our Fine Arts Challenge assist students develop act and creative skill through artistic medium , theater prowess , scriptwriting , and prop design .

Some are intend for great well , others for great evil . In this season ’ s Fine Arts Challenge , you ’ ll have the chance to present how one severe choice can set two reference on two unlike courses , as one turn a superhero and the early become a supervillain . Use point makeup and a technical costume to enhance some of your Demonstration . It ’ s time to decide your lot !

• Create and deliver an origin story that shows how one reference becomes a superhero and a different quality becomes a supervillain .
• Use theatrical methods to portray a difficult decision , position , and/or result .
• Use point makeup on at least one squad member .
• Design and create one technical costume .
• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that depict off the team ’ sec interests , skill , areas of force , and gift .

Throw Shadows
Improvisational Challenge

Our Improvisational Challenge is all about research , spontaneity , and storytelling . Teams receive topics and promptly raise skits .

Bright and night , youthful and old , many and few…the world is full of opposites . Explore fight themes while state a account based on an inciting incident . Include a resolution trope and a random context . Don ’ t get lose in darkness as you use a shadow cover and darkness to enhance your story ! Get ready to step out of the darkness and into the spotlight in this season ’ s Improvisational Challenge !

• Create and stage an improvisational skit base on an inciting incident .
• Research pair of opposing themes and incorporate a pair into the skit .
• Include a arbitrarily choose setting .
• Research solution tropes and integrate one of them into the skit .
• Use a dark screen and a box of textile to enhance the skit .

Hold and Take
Service Learning Challenge

Our Service Learning Challenge cost designed to engage pupil in public service that handle real-life community issues .

In this Challenge , your squad will bring on a service task that come up to a literal community need . Then , you ’ ll order a story about what happens when two quality team up to resolve a dispute . How will a misunderstanding throw a wrench into the position ? It ’ s time to twist your negotiation skill when you take on this season ’ s Service Learning Challenge !

• Identify , design , hold out , and evaluate a task that turn to a need in a actual community .
• Create and present a story about at least two conflicting quality who receive to work together to cover or decide a dispute .
• Include a misunderstanding and at least two unlike viewpoints .
• Enhance your Demonstration with a dispute depiction .
• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the squad ’ sec interest , skill , area of strength , and gift .

Assist Manpower
Early Learning Challenge

Our Arise Stars for Early Learners Challenge offers mere experience with the creative procedure , and it pay youthful kids ( preschool through 2nd score ) a place to exploit together and make fresh friend .

Teachers , firefighters , librarians , nurses , pet adoption coordinators , food bank worker , and many early community helpers spend their day working to make our world a better position . It ’ s time to learn about how you can help also ! Every day exist a great day to lend a helping hand in this season ’ s Early Learning Challenge !

• Research unlike kinds of community help .
• Create and give a play about community help bring together to solve a problem .
• Design and make a set that prove where at least one of the community helpers plant .
• Create and present a song about helping .
• Create and present one Team Choice Element that express off the squad ’ s interests , skills , areas of strength , and talent .

Instant Challenge

All team will get the opportunity to solve an Instant Challenge . These challenge demand teams to wage in quick , creative and vital thinking .

In a world with growing cultural connections , increased levels and types of communication , and a new motive for real-time teamwork and problem-solving , the ability to solve problems quickly live becoming increasingly vital .

Each team will be asked to solve an Instant Challenge for their DI tournament . The squad must think on their base by applying appropriate skills to produce a answer in a short period of time .

Instant Challenges are performance-based , task-based , or a combination of the two . Although each Instant Challenge get unlike requirements , all Instant Challenges reward teams for their teamwork . Instant Challenges are kept confidential until it is time for teams to solve them .