Thank You to Our Retiring Board of Trustees Members
Dear friends and colleagues, Rosemary Bognar-Pinney and Rick Rand will be retiring from the Destination Imagination (DI) Board of Trustees on September 30, 2020. For decades, Rosemary and Rick have given relentlessly to Destination Imagination and were instrumental in the founding of our organization. Their decades of service and their contribution to the DI program and […]
Letter from Our Executive Director & Board of Trustees
Dear DI Family, We hope that you are staying healthy, cool and creative during what will be remembered as “Quarantine Summer.” Summer 2020 will also be remembered as featuring Destination Imagination’s first Virtual Global Finals! We received 2,200 submissions across our Team Challenge Showcase, Virtual Team Challenge and Instant Challenge categories! It was an incredible […]
DI Board of Trustees Welcomes New Members
The Destination Imagination, Inc. Board of Trustees is excited to announce the election of two new members to its board. The newly elected members are Tarsha Whitaker Calloway and Muhannad AL-Jarrah. Destination Imagination’s Board of Trustees Chair, Louise Liddle, announced, “I am thrilled to welcome these two talented individuals. Their unique backgrounds and diverse experiences will […]
Letter from Our Board of Trustees
Dear DI Community, The COVID-19 pandemic created a worldwide upheaval. The pandemic is a world-shattering event that has had, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences; the world’s health, social, and economic well-being has been disruptive. Destination Imagination, like many organizations, lost its largest fundraising event. This created significant challenges and pressures to Destination Imagination’s leaders […]
How to Get Your Team Members to Project their Voices
How many times and how many ways have you tried to encourage your team members to project their voices for their Destination Imagination Presentation to no avail? Being able to project and articulate the voice is a cornerstone of acting. However, without prior knowledge or experience, Team Managers may struggle with ways to help their […]
Helping Your Team Members Write Better Skits (Without Interfering!)
As a drama teacher, I have spent years writing and editing plays for kids. I’ve also helped countless children write their own short plays. This can be extremely challenging. If you have tried to get your team members to write their own stories/scripts, they may have turned out something like this: Once upon a time […]
How to Get Your Team Members to Face the Audience
As a Destination Imagination (DI) Team Manager, do you struggle with the performance aspect of DI Challenges? Here are three common performance problems that most DI Team Managers face: Team members do not face the audience. Team members do not project their voices. Their stories and plays do not make sense. If you do not […]
Early Learning STEM Lessons for Teachers
Early STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education provides a critical foundation for future learning. Children are natural STEM investigators who are eager to explore, observe and ask questions. By introducing them early on to STEM, they learn skills such as communication, problem solving, creativity, empathy, self-confidence, reasoning, analysis and teamwork. Destination Imagination offers a […]
Team Tips: Looking at Your TDF like an Appraiser
It’s that time of year again – teams are busy finishing their final details in preparation for their Regional or Affiliate Tournaments. Between adding those final lines and last costume stitches, you may have that nagging feeling that you forgot something important… Did you leave your Tournament Data Form (TDF) to the last minute? If […]
Keeping Teams on Task
By: Ruth Dargay, DI Volunteer Teams can have all kinds of wonderfully creative ideas, but if they get stuck at the idea-generating phase or when it’s time to push through the difficult sections of a Challenge, then no one will be able to witness their fantastic solutions. While we want our teams to stay focused, […]
Organizing Team Meetings
By Ruth Dargay Congratulations! You’ve got your team members and are ready to get started in your role as a Team Manager…but where to begin? If you’ve ever been a Girl Scout or Boy Scout leader, you know that meetings run more smoothly when you’ve done some prep work ahead of the meeting and this […]
Prototyping for Your DI Challenge Solution
By: Terry Branstetter, DI Volunteer Prototyping fits hand-in-glove with the Destination Imagination creative process, especially during imagination and assessment. Simply put, and stemming from the original Greek, a prototype is a primitive form—an early sample. Various prototyping techniques are used in many scientific fields, engineering, and computer programming. Prototyping seeks to validate ideas and concept […]
