This season we're taking on the 2025–26 Service Learning Challenge: Give and Take. Teams choose a real community need, plan and carry out a project that addresses it, and identify a Point of Conflict—a situation where different people or groups disagree. We research negotiation strategies, create a Negotiation Plan, and weave our project and its results into a theatrical presentation at the tournament. The challenge is all about listening, sharing, and finding ways to work together.

A Glimpse of Our Performance

Our story takes place on a farm at sunset. Joe, Zoe, and Jaxon are farmers who grow food in a way that's better for the Earth and share half of what they grow with families in their community who need fresh fruits and vegetables. But farming isn't easy—they don't always have the right tools, and sometimes the soil, the water, and the sunlight are hard to read. By night, the Gnomelins—Waba and Leef—come out. They're native to the land, nocturnal, and need dry soil to survive. When they roll in the dirt and accidentally turn off the water to stay dry, the farmers' crops suffer. Neither group knows the other exists… until one morning they meet. What follows is a misunderstanding that could drive them apart—and a conversation that changes everything.

Can two groups who need opposite things ever find a way to share the same land? The Gnomelins are so small—how could they possibly help? And what happens when everyone finally starts to listen?

We hope you'll join us at the tournament to see our performance and hear our message: When people listen, share, and work together, everyone grows stronger together.