Tuesday, May 31, 2011

DI By the Numbers

People ask, how big is DI, is it really a big deal to go to Globals? The answer is YES!  It's a big deal
  • DI Headquarters state over 335,000 kids participated this past year globally in DI.  (That's over 47,500  - 7 person teams world-wide)
  • Each team can have a minimum of 2 members and maximum of 7
  • The four teams from Iowa that we knew about had 4, 4, 6 and 3 members each - so many teams do not have the full 7 members)
  • 1101 teams competed at Globals -- that's it.  Out of over 47,500 teams, only 1101 moved on to Globals
  • Number of participants at Globals would range from 2202 kids to 7707 kids depending on the number of kids on a team .  It's more like 5000-6000 kids total that participated.
  • Attendence last week at Globals counting kids, parents, school coaches, appraisers, volunteers, grandparents, etc was around 12,000 to 13,000 people.
Other interesting notes:
  • Average hours of sleep for adults during the week  - let me get back to you, I'm too sleep deprived to figure that out.
  • Number of times kids ask to pin trade or go to the pool - too many to count
  • Number of times we heard "I lost the back to one of my pins" - only about 100,000 times
  • Number of times we heard "did you see what they were.... wearing, what color their hair was -- a couple times a day
  • The smiles and saucersized eyes when the kids looked around  - priceless
Thanks for all your support for the Ames DI Teams.

Jeanne

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