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The social interaction they’ve missed. The project-based learning they need. Are your kids ready to rebuild the social interaction and skill-building that were put on pause? Help them reengage in learning by joining a Destination Imagination team!

2024-25 Team Challenges

Our Team Challenges are open-ended and enable students to learn and experience the creative process while fostering their creativity, curiosity and courage.

Camp Gottalikachallenge

Want to keep the fun going over the summer? Every summer, we welcome campers from all over the world for a week of creativity camp in New Hampshire!

Help Empower NH Youth This Giving Tuesday December 1, 2024 - New Hampshire Destination Imagination (NH-DI) is one of the programs run by the New Hampshire Innovation and Creativity Connection (NHICC). NHICC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to fostering teamwork, creative problem solving, and innovation in New Hampshire. Working with students from preschool through college, NHICC offers multiple programs including NH-DI and Camp Gottalikachallenge to… (more...)
There’s Still Time! Let’s DIve into Team Timelines November 23, 2024 -   Looking for ways to manage the holiday rush while ensuring your Destination Imagination team stays productive? You're not alone! Many teams around the world, including my own, tend to hit the pause button until the new year. Did you know, a well-planned 8-week timeline can be enough to create an amazing challenge solution? Even… (more...)
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...)
What is Destination Imagination?
Destination Imagination® is a fun, hands-on system of learning that fosters students’ creativity, courage and curiosity through open-ended academic Challenges in the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), fine arts and service learning. Our participants learn patience, flexibility, persistence, ethics, respect for others and their ideas, and the collaborative problem solving process. Teams showcase their solutions at tournaments all over the world.

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
Up to seven members can be on a DI team, and students from kindergarten through university level participate. Each team also needs an adult Team Manager. Team Managers help students stay on track, but do not directly help the team to develop its solution to the DI Challenge. Team Managers are often faculty members or parents.

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
If you are trying to find a local Destination Imagination program, or would like to launch a new DI program at your school, please contact us—we’re eager to help!

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.

 

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