Teams at Noggin Builders
Teams at Noggin Builders are a structured program for your child to build creative problem solving skills, collaboration, and STEM skills while having fun and making friendships.
Team members improve resiliency, flexible thinking, and communication skills. Combined with the real-life S.T.E.M. skills we will use to solve challenges, these are the building blocks that will help today’s children grow into tomorrow’s future leaders.
Choose Destination Imagination for an engineering focus or Robotics for a technology/coding focus.
See details on these two programs below.
Destination Imagination (DI)
DI teams work together to solve a complex STEM Challenge and present their STEM work through an 8-minute team created performance. They also showcase their creative problem solving and teamwork in an Instant Challenge.
DI Team Quick Facts:
– Open to grades 2nd-12th
– DI teams meet September through May, regardless of tournament advancement
– Practices are 2 hours per week; typically 4-6pm for younger teams and 6-8pm for older teams
– You can preference your practice day, although best team fit is the priority
– While we do allow teammate requests, we carefully evaluate the best fit for each child and believe that best overall team fit is most important
2nd & 3rd Graders:
DI Team Prep Level is our introductory program for DI Team. This program helps your child build skills and prepare for the competitive level. Click here for more details! No tryout required; attendance at infomration meeting recommended.
4th -12th Graders:
TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR DI TEAMS AT NOGGIN BUILDERS:
1) Parent / guardian must attend an information meeting
2) Child must attend a tryout (unless they are currently enrolled in DI Team Prep Level)
2024 Meeting Dates:
All meetings are in-person at Noggin Builders
Thursday, 4/18, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Saturday, 4/20, 10:00am-11:30am
Thursday, 4/25, 7:00pm-8:30pm
Sunday, 4/28, 1:30pm-3:00pm
REGISTER FOR THE INFO MEETING
2024 Tryout Dates:
Friday, 5/3, 4:00pm-6:00pm
Saturday, 5/4, 10:00am-12:00pm
Sunday, 5/5, 1:30pm-3:30pm
REGISTER FOR A TRYOUT DATE
Robotics:
VEX IQ
Noggin Builders offers robotics options for children in grades 5th-8th.
VEX robotics explores the mechanical design of robots as well as coding. From VEX: “The VEX IQ Competition provides elementary and middle school students with exciting, open-ended robotics challenges that enhance their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills through hands-on, student-centered learning.”
2023-2024 Robotics Team Information
By invitation only – please contact us if you would like to participate
Prerequisite: 30 hours of robotics or coding
Tuesdays 6:00pm-8:00pm
September 5, 2023 – January 30, 2024
(No practice 10/31, 11/21, 12/26, 1/2)
Tournament date has not been set (likely January 20 or 27)
Get ready for Robotics Team with Robotics Skill class!
Grades 5th-8th (4th grade by invitation)
Tuesdays 4:00pm-5:30pm
Level: beginner to advanced beginner
