Help Team Tiny Feet Reach Global Finals

Hello! We are a 4th Grade Destination Imagination Team from Lincoln, Nebraska. We created a solution to the Elementary Scientific Challenge “Blast from the Past”. We placed First at both our Regional and State Tournaments. This earned us a spot to compete at Global Finals with teams from around the world!

We are raising funds to help pay for our Global Finals entrance fees. Click “Read More” below for story details.

For our solution to the Scientific Challenge “Blast from the Past” we brainstormed, conducted research, wrote a script and crafted a puppet, costumes, props and a set. We also performed and executed all production roles.

In our story, we created characters that use both Science and History to try to prove the existence of Bigfoot…Two students from the prestigious Saltmore University don't believe in Bigfoot. The school's janitor, Larry Poppins, tells them Bigfoot is real and that he can prove it. He shows them a Bigfoot Tooth Spear that he found when he was a kid. As he tells the students his theory of where the spear came from, they imagine the events of the past. First, the spear is made by Daniel Boone after he knocks out Bigfoot's tooth at a salt lick in Kentucky (Bigfoot LOVES salt. “If salts there, he’s there.”) . Then Thomas Jefferson decides he wants a Bigfoot tooth too and sends Lewis & Clark on an expedition to find him one. Lewis is given the spear by Boone, but he loses it at the mouth of the Platte River. Berry the Beaver knows Bigfoot and recognizes the tooth so he takes it from the Platte River to Salt Creek and finally to the Saline Wetlands in Lincoln, Nebraska where he recently saw Bigfoot (the saltiest place in Nebraska). 150 years later Larry Poppins finds it as a young boy. He researches the spear for 70 years and comes up with his theory, but he still can’t seem to prove Bigfoot exists. (All the while, FBI agents work to keep Bigfoot a secret.) The students help him by using Faunal Analysis to compare the tooth to other specimens, discovering that the tooth belongs to an unknown species, possibly Bigfoot. But before they can conduct further tests, Bigfoot steals his tooth back and his existence remains a mystery!

Believe with us and help us get to Global Finals!

Thank you to all of our amazing community friends who have helped to educate us and provide us additional meeting space etc. throughout the season!

Thank you!

Platte Basin Timelapse - Carlee Moates and Dakota Altman (bringing Bigfoot Sightings and our story to life through onsite photography and sharing on social media)

Bigfoot Crossroads of America Museum - Harriet McFeely (Research, Inspiration, Bigfoot Conference)

Archrival - Clint Runge (Creative Thinking / Brainstorming)

Prairie Madness - Jill Hibbard (Puppet Research)

Midwest Archeological Center - Rebecca Wiewel (Archeology Research)

Morrill Hall - Katelyn McMullin (Anthropology Research)

Lincoln City Libraries (Research and Meeting Space)

Sheridan Elementary (Meeting Space)