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A Shrimp Po Boy at Crabby Jacks!

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:58:49 -0500

A Shrimp Po Boy at Crabby Jacks!

New Orleans Summer Mission Trip 2010

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:45:02 -0500

Hello!

From June 8th to June 18th, I will be in New Orleans, Louisiana once again! This summer, I will be working with Mission Love Never Fails. This is a missions organization that brings down mission groups from all over the U.S. to minister to the people of New Orleans as we help rebuild from Hurricane Katrina. For this week, I will be working with a group of 40 students from Brandon, Florida. We will be working at two job sites, one building a house with Habitat for Humanity and the other working on a local home owners home. These first few days have been mostly used for preperation for next week. I will try my best to update this often on what we are doing, prayer requests, etc. See you soon!

-Spencer

Global Finals Results

Sun, 30 May 2010 00:55:46 -0500

Ok, so we had a tough week with both of our challenges. The awards ceremony was incredible, but we didn’t place in the top ten. We tied with another team for 15th place out of 43 highschool robot-building teams from around the world. Better than I expected. Not bad for our first year at Globals! I can now offically talk about our instant challenges from this year, but I’m too tired. ;-)

It has been a great year of DI! The furthest we’ve ever gone! It’s been an amazing week! We will hopefully be able to do it next year, which would be our last year. I am so ready for it already! I just want to read our challenge, and solve it at a global level. I’m getting excited already!

Like I said, I’m tired. It’s been a busy week! Goodnight!

-Spencer

Global Finals Live Webcast!

Sat, 29 May 2010 16:52:41 -0500

Hey! You can watch the Global Finals Awards Ceremony online at globalfinals.com at 6:30 central! Be listening for “Meadowdale Christian Academy” for the Challege “B: DI-Bot - Secondry Level!” Hopefully you’ll see us!

-Spencer

Day 3 - Instant Challenge and Club DI: Midnght Madnes!

Sat, 29 May 2010 08:43:00 -0500

Today was awesome! We started out our day with breakfast and a team devotional. We practiced some instant challenges (and did awesome at them!), then headed to the convention center to hang out. We went bowling, then headed to our site for our instant challenge. Unfortunately, I am not allowed to talk anything about it until after the Global Finals Award Ceremony. I’ll talk more then!

Club DI: Midnight Madness was an outdoor concert with the band, MAE. It involved high schoolers and college students, crowd surfing, pizza and drinks, lots of glow sticks, and staying up til midnight! It was a whole lot of fun!

Tomorrow (Saturday) we have the awards ceremony! I’ll post some more info about that later today. See ya!

-Spencer

Bowling with the D.I. team!

Fri, 28 May 2010 12:07:09 -0500

Bowling with the D.I. team!

Day 2 - Central Challenge and "Box & Ball" Costume Party

Thu, 27 May 2010 23:14:13 -0500

Today was amazing. We spent most of our morning preparing for our central challenge performance. We got to the storage area two hours before we needed to be there. We pre-set everything, tested stuff, practiced our lines and song, and everything worked great. We were so ready to present our solution to the appraisers and audience. While in there, the robot was working better than ever, but when we walked into the performance room loading bay, the most important part of the robot, a piece of fishing line holding up a stirring arm, snapped. We don’t know how or why. We were all stressed and just trying our best to recover. An instant challenge surfaced in the midst of our central challenge, and we had a very small amount of time to figure out what to do. We performed our skit with a few flaws, but mostly good. The judges seemed impressed with our robot even though it didn’t work the way we wanted it to. No matter what would happen about it, God’s will was done and I wouldn’t have it any other way! After we took everything out, we enjoyed destroying our backdrop and props with hammers, fists, and kicks. We received our scores a few hours later. There were a few things we didn’t agree with, and a few things we liked, the robot being one of them! Even though it messed up, the judges saw past that and graded us on how it should have worked. Thank you Jesus!

Tonight, our team went to the Box & Ball costume party dressed in crazy D.I. costumes! Most of us used duct tape to create out costumes! Wesley used a trashbag to make a tux, and Jordan used M&M and Skittles candy wrapers to create his pants. We had an awesome night of live music and dancing! It was great!

Tomorrow is the 3M non-competitive challenge, Club DI: Midnight Madness, and our second part of the competiton, the Instant Challenge. This is a make it or break it challenge, so please pray for us! Let God’s will be done!

-Spencer

Another pic of the box and ball costume party!

Thu, 27 May 2010 22:44:01 -0500

Another pic of the box and ball costume party!

The Box and Ball Costume Party!

Thu, 27 May 2010 18:43:20 -0500

The Box and Ball Costume Party!

Day 1 - Regestration and Opening Ceremony

Thu, 27 May 2010 00:24:44 -0500

Hello! Okay, today was a pretty awesome day. Our team is offically registered for Global Finals. We had the opening cermony tonight which was pretty much amazing. It started with representatives from all states/counties entering in a parade onto the floor (our rep was Jordan!). It was awesome to see all of the different countries involved in D.I. South Korea, China, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, USA, Brazil, and many more! There were sponsors, contest winners, and incredible people recognized next. After that, a slide show of pics and videos was played on the big screen while the band MAE played on the main stage. A lazer show ended it out. It was really cool!

Tomorrow, we have our central challenge at 12:30 Eastern (11:30 Central). We did some tests and touch ups tonight, and we are ready! Please pray for us!

That’s it for tonight. Goodnight from Tennessee!

-Spencer

Opening Ceremony lazer show!

Thu, 27 May 2010 00:10:39 -0500

Opening Ceremony lazer show!

Opening Ceremony Tonight!!

Wed, 26 May 2010 16:36:06 -0500

Tonight is the D.I. Global Finals opening ceremony! You can watch it live at 6:30 Central Time at globalfinals.com!

Collin and Joshua playing life sized chess!

Wed, 26 May 2010 12:18:10 -0500

Collin and Joshua playing life sized chess!

Road Trip!

Tue, 25 May 2010 08:33:16 -0500

Road Trip!

Headed to Knoxville, Tennessee! Global Finals here we come!

Tue, 25 May 2010 07:24:46 -0500

Headed to Knoxville, Tennessee! Global Finals here we come!

D.I. Global Finals 2010!

Fri, 21 May 2010 01:07:43 -0500

Hello peoples!

It is almost time for the Destination Imagination Global Finals Competition! I cannot hold in the excitement that I have. Our DI team has been working towards this since we were little elementary school kids…for 8 years. And now it’s only a few days away! So, what exactly is D.I. anyway?

Well, you can ask any team member, team manger, and DI parent, and I think that you would hear them all say that Destination Imagination is one of the hardest things to describe. In a few words, it is problem-solving, creativity, and teamwork. Our team has two challenges to complete each year. Our long-term challenge, given to us in September, is the primary part of D.I. To give you an idea of what that actually is, this year our team had to design and create a robot that would be integrated into an 8 minute team created skit and had to change a characters life and show the effects of that change. We had to create a live, scene change transition using creative stage effects that would be integrated into our skit. We also had to have two “side trips” that show off our teams exceptional talents and abilities. Oh, and we also have only $150 to do it all. That includes backdrops, set pieces, costumes, props, the robot, etc. It may seem like a lot, but it goes fast. So you could say that most of our stuff is built out of junk yard, recycled trash (in D.I., the saying “your trash, my treasure” is reality!). Also, every aspect of the challenge has to be only done by the team. No parents, no friends, no one but the team! It is amazing to see what kids can come up with! We have six months to complete this challenge before regional competition in February.

The next challenge we are given is the instant challenge. It is given to us within 4-6 minutes before it has to be completed. It is secret, so we really don’t have many ways to prepare for it. It could be a construction challenge, a theatre arts/improv challenge, or a mix between the two. I am not allowed to talk about the challenges we have had thus far until after the closing ceremony of the Global Finals Competition.

So that’s D.I. in a nutshell! When we come up with our solution and perfect it, we compete against other high schoolers who did the same challenge and are graded by the appraisers (the judges) in both our central challenge and instant challenge. It’s simple. Whichever team gets the most points, wins. There is a Regional Competition (1st place!), a State Competition (1st place again!), and the Global Finals Competition. Global Finals is not only teams from all 50 states in the US, but also teams from 37 different countries around the globe! Global Finals is a week long and full of fun, and competition. It’s going to be awesome!!!

I will be posting updates, pics, and maybe even videos (if I can figure out how to) during the week. Goodbye for now!

-Spencer

"Have you ever thought that maybe God’s silence is His loudest way of speaking?"

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:17:13 -0500

“Have you ever thought that maybe God’s silence is His loudest way of speaking?”

- Adam Richards

Just got my “Heaven an Earth” by Phil Wickham...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:03:18 -0600

Just got my “Heaven an Earth” by Phil Wickham Pre-Order in the mail!

"Heaven & Earth" iTunes Link :: Click Here

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:02:45 -0600

"Heaven & Earth" iTunes Link :: Click Here:

Phil Wickham’s new album “Heaven and Earth” comes out today! Phil Wickham is one of my favorite worship leaders/songwriters/musicians. He has a unique voice and is very passionate about worshipping God. Go buy his album today!

200 Chick-Fil-A Chicken Sandwiches for the Adoption Conference....

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:11:54 -0600

200 Chick-Fil-A Chicken Sandwiches for the Adoption Conference. The smell was irresistable!