Local Earhart Team Earns Spot at Destination Imagination Global Finals! They need your support!

Five Amelia Earhart Elementary students, known as DI to the 5th Power, have advanced to the 2016 Destination Imagination (DI) Global Finals competition in Knoxville, Tennessee, on May 25-28. They are thrilled for this opportunity and are ready to demonstrate their talents while representing Alameda, CA, at this international competition. (DI to the 5th Power (as seen in the first picture): Corinna Chin, Kaela Wong, Kailani Tyler, Hana Chan and Lily Deleon
Team manager: Claudette Carrillo-Tyler.)

DI is a creative problem solving competition in which student teams create a solution to an improvisational, technical, scientific, service learning, or artistic/fine arts challenge. DI to the 5th Power will present their team solution in a 4 minute improvisational skit that they will prepare only minutes before presenting. The competition is fierce, but this Earhart DI team has been preparing since October, meeting after school and on the weekends, and they are ready to showcase their work.

The students must raise funds to pay for their registration fees, airfare and ground transportation, and food and accommodations in Tennessee. With only a few weeks to go until Globals, the pressure is on. We're planning several community fundraisers to cover the trip costs. We've set our GoFundMe page goal at $10,000 -- this amount and the fundraising targets for the other events will get us closer to our total goal.

Our gofundme page link is: https://www.gofundme.com/2016earhartdi

We invite you to share in our experience by making a tax deductible contribution. Any amount is appreciated. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS HAS GENEROUSLY PROMISED TO MATCH ALL DONATIONS MADE TO THEIR GOFUNDME PAGE!!

Thank you for supporting these young, creative minds--the next generation of innovators and leaders!

Join us for their other fundraisers!

1) WEDNESDAY MAY 4TH: DINE AND SHOP at TOMATINA'S AND BOOK'S INC- Please join us for an evening of great food and shopping! Tomatina's will graciously donate 15% of all food and beverage sales from lunch, dinner and take out orders on this date when you come in with the Dine and Donate Flyer. Please present the flyer with your payment for the team to receive credit. You can pick up a flyer at the Earhart Office, print the one in this article or get your flyer from Book's Inc next door where the girls will have a table set up in the evening to visit and talk with folks about their journey.

2) SUNDAY MAY 15: PARKING LOT SALE AT EARHART SCHOOL- Come find that perfect treasure for your home! Sale is from 8 am to 2 pm. We will be in the Earhart parking lot from 8 am to 2 pm. There are three ways to participate: 1. Rent a space for $35 and you keep the profits from your sales. 2. Donate all that unwanted stuff to the team and they will put it in the sale and use the profits to help the team get to and enjoy the Global competition. 3. Come and find that special and much needed treasure. If you would like to participate in the yard sale please contact Paizley Spencer at pspencer@alameda.k12.ca.us

3) DONATE YOUR OLD UNUSED BART TICKETS! Feel free to drop off any BART tickets with unused dollar amounts remaining on the ticket. BART will reimburse all the collected money on the tickets to our DI group! You can drop them off in the office at EARHART during regular office hours or mail them to EARHART SCHOOL, ATTN BART TICKETS FOR DI, 400 Packet Landing Road, Alameda, CA 94502