Welcome the team from Merrimack Valley High Schooll! Meet Shannon, Rachel, Keara, Sam, Hillary, Abby and Merike! The represent the towns of Andover , Boscawen, Loudon, Penacook, Salisbury, Webster.

Shannon offered one of the team's real challenges this year. "The most challenging part about DI is staying focused. We have so much fun that we tend to get distracted. That and the technical component. We have this problem every year. We are not technically inclined."

That could be a problem with a challenge that blends play writing, technical design, construction, the scientific principals of light, shadow and illumination, technical design, innovation and design process, investigative techniques and teamwork. But not for this team, as Shannon continued, "The most important part of DI is the team. We spend so much time together that we are more like a family than a team. Sometimes we win, sometimes we don't, sometimes we don't get along, but, in the end, we always have each other."

The team is heading to compete with teams from all 50 states and around the world at Global Finals!

 

It was another great day at Global Finals as members of Team New Hampshire and spectators from around the country and around the world came to see this team.

The team was fast, tight, and had fun with their competition performance called
"Stop in the name of Louvre before you break my Art!"

(That set the tone for the rest of the play!)

New York Times Worst-Seller and failed artist, Mori Momento has dropped out of art school and sunken into a despondent torpor. In one final attempt at making it as an artist, she takes to the typewriter..

Meanwhile, within the pages of her book, romance and rejection run rampant in the Louvre. The dashingly devious statue, The Thinker, is defacing art all over the Louvre. He repaints a punk streetrat by the name of Girl With the Hoop Earrings as a classy girl in pearls. Next on his artistic hitlist is American Gothic, originally of the farmer woman in the arms of hunky elf. To American Gothic's horror, her heartthrob is removed from the painting and replaced with a crusty old codger holding a rake. Da Vinci is the next victim. His masculinity and top layer of paint are stripped away when The Thinker repaints him as a woman, namely The Mona Lisa. Da Vinci's friend, The Laugh, was so horrified at this atrocity that he became The Scream.

Girl With a Pearl Earring and a folk art statue named Scarlette McVibrant set off to find who is vandalizing the art. Scarlette immediately suspects The Thinker, but Pearl is distracted by his sculpted bod and rock-hard abs. The Thinker's x-girlfriend tries to prove his guilt, resulting in a vicious love parallelogram with shocking twists.

But is this why The Thinker has defaced paintings? As it turns out, he is getting revenge on Mori Momento, the unsuspecting narrator, because of a typo in the beginning of the book. The rest of the art is so mad that they've been put through all these misfortunes because Mori couldn't use Spellcheck. They rise up against her and overthrow the narrator.

Underscored by acting and props, they were well received by the teams world-wide! It was easy to be proud of the accomplishments of the Merrimack Valley High School team!