Destination ImagiNation® offers great benefits to kids, but parents must be willing to do their share. Although adults are not allowed to offer any ideas to a team, or to participate in the construction of a team’s solution, we need parents to be team managers, tournament officials and tournament volunteers. To make this a success, both you and your child must make a commitment to the program!
There are many things you can do, even with a packed schedule, to help support the efforts of the team. See the Parent Guide for a few ideas.
Please consider volunteering to become a team manager! No special skills are required. You only need to be willing to work with a creative group of kids, and you can share this responsibility with other adults. Sadly, each year there are children who want to participate in Destination ImagiNation®, but can’t because there aren’t enough team managers. So, grab a buddy and volunteer! Team Managers have many resources available including: a team manager’s guide; training sessions and workshops; and experienced team managers who can
guide you through the entire Destination ImagiNation® program.
DI State Tournament
The Racin' Red Rabbit Hawks put on a show with their own hand made costumes. In this play, the wolves from the Great Wolf Lodge come alive!!!
The Magic Treehouse team starts their adventure!
At DI Globals, in Knoxville, we made some friends from Korea!
The Green Dragons prepare in the hallway before showtime!
Will they conquer the Great Wall of China in time?Article in Stu's News, April 12, 2007
Students on the Rosa Parks Elementary School Destination Imagination “The Green Dragons” team took time to cheese for the camera. The team won the DaVinci Award for outstanding creativity during the recent state competition. Pictured are from left to right Kiara Robichaud, Cameron Maloney, Michael Naish, Shamik Chandrachood, Claire McDermott, and Hannah Wang and Coach Jennifer Robichaud. Team member Jasmine Ahmad is not pictured.New program brings out kids’ “ImagiNation”
Thirty eight students on six teams at Rosa Parks Elementary School recently brought home medals while competing in the state Destination ImaginaNation tournament.
The program is new to Fayette County, and Rosa Parks Elementary is the second school in Lexington to participate. While DI has competitions at every level, kindergarten through college, Rosa Parks is gearing their program for the younger set in kindergarten through second — The Rising Stars. Destination Imagination is a problem-solving program that helps young people learn how to work and grow together as a team. Practicing and competing nurtures mutual self respect while enhancing students’ self-confidence and problem solving skills.
Thirty eight students on six teams at Rosa Parks Elementary School recently brought home medals while competing in the state Destination ImaginaNation tournament.
The program is new to Fayette County, and Rosa Parks Elementary is the second school in Lexington to participate. While DI has competitions at every level, kindergarten through college, Rosa Parks is gearing their program for the younger set in kindergarten through second — The Rising Stars. Destination Imagination is a problem-solving program that helps young people learn how to work and grow together as a team. Practicing and competing nurtures mutual self respect while enhancing students’ self-confidence and problem solving skills.
“I am thrilled to find a fun, yet academic, after school activity specifically geared for the lower primary students,” said Leslie Thomas, principal at Rosa Parks Elementary. “The feedback I have received has been overwhelmingly positive from students, parents, and teachers. The kids are enjoying themselves and learning a great deal, which benefits everyone.”
The open-ended challenges allow for a wide variety of solutions and a sense of accomplishment for the team. As part of the process, the participants develop critical thinking and creative problem solving skills. Each group is led by a team manager who is either a parent or adult volunteer.
“We have found that through this program, students are really thinking through challenges and using those skills to figure out practical, real-life problems,” said Jodi Dodd, who coordinates the program at Rosa Parks. “You can see the ‘light turn on’ when they understand that there are many ways to attack a problem — and there is no ‘right’ answer. The students are building confidence knowing they have a team to stand with them.”
Each of the challenges offers a different focus, such as mathematics, technical design and construction, experimentation, theater arts, social studies, research, story development, architecture, geography, structural engineering or other disciplines requiring critical thinking skills necessary to be successful in college, the workplace and in tomorrow’s world.
For more information about Destination Imagination, please visit http://www.idodi.org/ or contact Jodi Dodd at jodidodd@gmail.com.
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