New Team Managers Trained! November 16, 2024 - New Destination Imagination Team Managers from around New Hampshire were trained at Southern New Hampshire University on Saturday (November 16th). Team Managers are the volunteer adults who facilitate the creative solutions that students, from pre-K through college develop at Destination Imagination tournaments. Training was led by a series of alumni (adults who were on teams… (more...)
Do it for the Team: Team Manager Training Saturday November 11, 2024 - The best thing you can do to empower your Destination Imagination team is come to Team Manager training. You are under no obligation to tell your team how much fun this is. The final in-person Team Manager training will be held Saturday, November 16 at Southern New Hampshire University's main campus. If you’d like to join… (more...)
Time to Start a NH-DI Team! October 20, 2024 - The world is rapidly changing. Rapidly becoming the most needed skills are creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and being able to leverage each other's abilities to drive results, on a budget and a on time. The Destination Imagination program offered both in New Hampshire and globally enable students to gain these skills while having fun! Over… (more...)
2024 Team Manager In-Person Training! October 17, 2024 - Team Managers agree that NH-DI's Team Manager training is the best way to learn how to empower a team to select a Team Challenge, and then work together to create a solution for their chosen Challenge! The training covers a wide range of topics, including team-building, Interference, Instant Challenge, and how to handle commonly encountered… (more...)
Welcome to the 2024-25 Destination Imagination Season! August 13, 2024 - On August 1, teams registered with Destination Imagination for the 2024-2025 Challenge year received access to this year's Challenges. Realistically, in New Hampshire, your team members probably haven't started school yet. But, when you do, and when you're ready—the Challenges will be too! Destination Imagination (DI) is a global, volunteer-led nonprofit organization that hosts team… (more...)All Recent Articles
- New Team Managers Trained! (11/16/2024)
- Do it for the Team: Team Manager Training Saturday (11/11/2024)
- Time to Start a NH-DI Team! (10/20/2024)
- 2024 Team Manager In-Person Training! (10/17/2024)
- Welcome to the 2024-25 Destination Imagination Season! (8/13/2024)
- Last Call for Camp Gottalikachallenge! (7/6/2024)
- Release: Bedford, Milford Score Top 10 at Global Finals (5/26/2024)
- Bedford, Milford Score Top Ten at Destination Imagination Global Finals (5/25/2024)
- TeamNH Welcomed at Global Finals 2024 (5/22/2024)
- 16 NH School Teams Compete at Global Academic Tournament (5/19/2024)
- TeamNH: Ready for Global Finals! (5/17/2024)
- Ahead of Global Finals, They are now #TeamNH (5/11/2024)
- NH Sends16 Teams to Global Finals (4/28/2024)
- Results: 31 Teams Advance to Destination Imagination Global Finals (4/6/2024)
- 31 NH Teams Advance to Global Academic Tournament (4/6/2024)
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.