Four Huron DI teams compete in State Tournament
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HURON — Four Destination Imagination (DI) teams at the Huron School District recently participated in the State Tournament held at Pierre, and one of the engineering based teams, called “Wings of Fire,” took first place and will go to the Global Finals May 22-25 in Kansas City.
The team members of “Wings of Fire” include Aurora Dreyer, Hannah Schoenfelder, Josie Ptak, Nick Florey, TJ Lien and Tyler Cronin. Josh Lien is team manager, and the DI director at Huron School District is Colleen Jensen.
There are eight DI teams throughout the district that range from elementary to high school level. The program is entirely student run, which encourages teams to use their own initiative and develop leadership skills.
Jensen, with the team managers, are there to help supervise. However, they are not involved with the projects. Team managers in addition to Lien include Leah Gosch, Eh Myee Paw, Bradley Ptak, David Jensen, Callee Bauman Wachter and Sam Castellanos.
In addition, this is the first year for Huron to have an elementary team, “Flaming Tigers,” that qualified for state, which includes students Sebastian Olivo, Josh Olivo, Teegan Lien, Brian Ptak, Tucker Micheel and James Wheeler.