Results: 31 Teams Advance to Destination Imagination Global Finals April 6, 2024 - Over 100 students New Hampshire teams successfully completed their Challenges in Regional competition. 66 teams have competed in a STEAM showdown at the NH Destination Imagination State Affiliate Finals on Saturday, April 6th at Bedford High School. These teams excelled in Challenges based in science, technology, engineering, the arts, math or social learning. Only two student… (more...)
Saturday: NH State Affiliate Finals in Goffstown March 30, 2024 - New Hampshire's top-scoring 45 Destination Imagination student teams will clash in a STEAM showdown at the NH State Affiliate Finals on April 6th at Goffstown High School. These teams excelled in Challenges based in science, technology, engineering, the arts, math or social learning. Over 100 teams statewide tackled these challenges, with the top 45 having… (more...)
New Meredith Schedules Posted! March 23, 2024 - New event and team competition schedules for Sunday's NH-DI Meredith Regional Tournament are now available on the Meredith Regional Tournament Page. Links to photos and results will also be available on that page after the competition. (more...)
DELAY: Meredith Regional Moves to Sunday March 21, 2024 - Due to forecasted snow and ice, the NH Destination Imagination Northern Regional Tournament at Inter-Lakes Middle High School in Meredith will now be held on SUNDAY, MARCH 24th. Team Managers are receiving emails to confirm teams availability; a new schedule will be published. More details, including the schedule, will be available on the Meredith Regional… (more...)
Watching the Weather for Saturday March 21, 2024 - The NH Destination Imagination team is watching the forecast for Saturday's Meredith Regional Tournament. As decisions are made. we will be posting them here on NH-DI.org, Facebook and Instagram. The current scheduled snow date for this event is this Sunday. - - - More to come - - - (more...)All Recent Articles
- Results: 31 Teams Advance to Destination Imagination Global Finals (4/6/2024)
- 31 NH Teams Advance to Global Academic Tournament (4/6/2024)
- Saturday: NH State Affiliate Finals in Goffstown (3/30/2024)
- 30 Student Teams Advance to NH State Tournament (3/24/2024)
- New Meredith Schedules Posted! (3/23/2024)
- DELAY: Meredith Regional Moves to Sunday (3/21/2024)
- Watching the Weather for Saturday (3/21/2024)
- Saturday, 40 Creative STEAM Teams Compete in Meredith to Advance to State Meet (3/18/2024)
- STEAM Regionals Come to Meredith NH This Saturday (3/18/2024)
- Academic Creative Problem-Solving Teams Advance to NH State Finals; Northern Regional Ahead (3/9/2024)
- Release: Over 400 Students Head to Southern Regional Tournament This Saturday (3/4/2024)
- Countdown to Regionals! (2/19/2024)
- 2024 Achievement Grants and Scholarships! (2/5/2024)
- Registration Open for Camp Gottalikachallenge 2024! (1/25/2024)
- Successful DIve In Team Training (1/6/2024)
What is Destination Imagination?
Destination Imagination is a non-profit, volunteer-led, cause-driven organization. Its purpose is to inspire and equip students to become the next generation of innovators and leaders. Approximately 200,000 youth make friends and learn the creative process through DI programs every year, and are supported by nearly 40,000 volunteers.
Destination Imagination’s programs are developed annually to ensure they are relevant and align to National Education Standards, STEM standards, ELA Common Core Standards, and Mathematics Common Core Standards. Every year, with the help of parent volunteers, educators, and subject matter experts, DI designs new and exciting Challenges for student teams to solve.
How the DI Challenge Program Works
DI fosters students’ curiosity, courage and creativity as they solve Challenges together as a team. A big part of our program is the Interference policy: in short, kids have to imagine, create and develop solutions on their own. Parents, Team Managers, family and friends can’t suggest ideas or force teams in certain directions. Outsiders can only facilitate the acquisition of skills and knowledge.
There are seven new Challenges to choose from each year. Each of the Challenges is developed by a team of educators and industry experts who target a particular area of the curriculum and its related standards of content and performance. The areas of focus include: Technical, Scientific, Fine Arts, Improvisational, Structural and Service Learning. There is also a non-competitive Early Learning Challenge that allows children to further develop their social skills and nurtures their curiosity and creativity.
The season takes place from September through May. Depending on the Challenge, teams typically spend 2 to 4 months developing and practicing their Challenge solutions. While most schools run DI as an after school program, some school districts incorporate the program into their electives curriculum.
After weeks spent creating and developing their solutions, the team solutions are assessed at regional, state, or international tournaments. Our tournaments provide the opportunity for participants to celebrate creativity with their peers and promote healthy competition. Every year, local volunteers help run 200 tournaments around the world. Top-scoring teams advance to their state or country tournament, also known as an Affiliate Tournament. The top tier teams from each Affiliate Tournament have the opportunity to participate in Global Finals—the world’s largest celebration of creativity.
Participants learn and experience the creative process from imagination to innovation, which fosters their curiosity, courage and creativity. Students in our program learn higher order thinking and improve in creative and critical thinking while learning to work together as a team. Participants also have the opportunity to develop new friendships with students around the world.
How You Can Get Started
The volunteers on NH-DI’s Outreach Committee will answer any questions that you have about our programs. We can also send NH-DI representatives to help run a DI Information Night at your school.