2022-2023 DI Challenges
Each Destination Imagination Challenge is an exercise that socially and intellectually activates students by prompting them to use creativity and teamwork to solve a complex problem.
Click to learn about the two types of Challenges
Team Challenges
- Team Challenges are open-ended and multidisciplinary.
- Teams spend several months working on the solution to the Team Challenge of their choice.
- Teams present their solutions at Tournaments.
Instant Challenges
- Instant Challenges require teams to engage in quick critical thinking.
- At every Tournament, live or virtual, each team will receive an Instant Challenge and the materials with which to solve it.
- The participants must think on their feet by applying appropriate skills to produce a solution, with only a short time in which to work on an Instant Challenge that they have not seen before.
Instant Challenges are performance-based, task-based, or a combination of the two. Although each Instant Challenge has different requirements, all Instant Challenges reward teams for their teamwork and the creativity of their solutions.
2022-2023 Challenge Summaries
Reminder to Teams: Challenge Clarifications are posted here on the Destination Imagination web site.
Technical Challenge: Piece by Piece
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The Technical Challenge prompts students to complete tasks by using engineering, research, strategic planning, and related skills.
- Design and create a puzzle that will be assembled during the Presentation.
- Design and build 2 puzzle solvers that use technical methods to assemble the puzzle.
- Create and present a story about how a character’s understanding changes at a pivotal moment.
- Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.
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Engineering Challenge: Thrill Ride
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Our Engineering Challenge asks students to explore and apply engineering skills and tools to design and build solutions to specific applications.
- Design and build a roller coaster that will be assembled and then tested during the Presentation.
- Design and create a launching mechanism that starts moving a golf ball along the roller coaster track.
- Test how far and how fast the golf ball can travel through the roller coaster.
- Create a Presentation that shows what the riders would experience when riding the roller coaster.
- Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.
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Scientific Challenge: Far Fetched
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Our Scientific Challenge blends the curiosity of scientific research with the creative expression of performance art.
- Present a team-created story in the style of a tall tale.
- Include an exaggerated character with a hyperbolic trait.
- Design and build a theatrical embellishment that enhances the hyperbolic trait.
- Present a scientific analysis to determine whether or not the exaggerated character could actually exhibit the hyperbolic trait(s) as described in the tall tale.
- Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.
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Fine Arts Challenge: Flip the Script
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Our Fine Arts Challenge helps students develop acting and creative skills through artistic media, theater arts, scriptwriting, and prop design.
- Create and present a flipped tale that is inspired by a well-known story but focuses on a new main character.
- Research literary devices and integrate one into the Presentation.
- Use theatrical techniques to move the audience’s focus from one portion of the Presentation Area to another.
- Design and build a piece of scenery that goes through a scenery flip.
- Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.
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Improvisational Challenge: Showdown
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Our Improvisational Challenge is all about research, spontaneity, and storytelling. Teams receive topics and quickly produce skits.
- Create and present an improvisational skit about an Underdog preparing for and/or participating in a competition.
- Incorporate an expert into the skit.
- Integrate a complication into the skit.
- Enhance the skit with trash bags and rubber bands.
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Service Learning Challenge: High Stakes
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Our Service Learning Challenge is designed to engage students in public service that addresses real-life community issues.
- Identify, design, carry out, and evaluate a project that addresses a need in a real community.
- Create and present a suspenseful story about a high-stakes situation.
- Include a slow-motion scene that is enhanced by a special effect.
- Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.
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Early Learning Challenge: Play On
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Our Rising Stars for Early Learners Challenge offers simple experiences with the creative process, and it gives young kids (preschool through 2nd grade) a place to work together and make new friends.
- Create and present a play about a group of friends going on a fantastic adventure together.
- Include a musical character.
- Create musical instruments and use them to perform a song.
- Create costumes, props, and scenery to help tell the story.
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Instant Challenge
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All teams will have the opportunity to solve an Instant Challenge. These challenges require teams to engage in quick, creative and critical thinking.
In a world with growing cultural connections, increased levels and types of communication, and a new need for real-time teamwork and problem-solving, the ability to solve problems quickly is becoming increasingly critical.
- Each team will be asked to solve an Instant Challenge for their DI tournament.
- The team must think on their feet by applying appropriate skills to produce a solution in a short period of time.
- Instant Challenges are performance-based, task-based, or a combination of the two.
- Although each Instant Challenge has different requirements, all Instant Challenges reward teams for their teamwork.
- Instant Challenges are kept confidential until it is time for teams to solve them.
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