DESTINATION IMAGINATION

Today's corporations are looking for young people who can work on a team to brainstorm, problem solve, and develop solutions all within a time limit and budget. Will your child have the skills? Destination ImagiNation™ offers a fun way to get there.

Destination ImagiNation™ is the world's largest non-profit, volunteer-driven organization devoted to helping kids gain practical life skills through interesting, entertaining and mind-boggling challenges. Our community and school-based program begins in August/September when the year's Challenges are issued. All the challenges are designed to follow the educational standards.

Teams of up to seven students choose their challenge and work for months developing their solution. Volunteer team managers (parents, teachers or community volunteers) facilitate the group, but cannot give technical or other assistance. Kids are empowered to design, produce and present all of their own work. Teams present their solutions at regional and state tournaments, which demonstrates to teams that there are many ways to solve the same problem. High scoring teams may advance to the ultimate creativity showdown, Global Finals, held each May at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

For more info on DI please visit the Massachusette's Destination Imagination website www.madikids.org

• Here is a calendar of this year's DI program CALENDAR We are Region 5. Please make sure that the state tournament is a day that your team can commit to!
• Here are this year's Challenges! These are just the summaries, team's recieve full directions on all challenges once they have registered. CHALLENGES
• Here is a team manager's guide MANAGER's GUIDE

REGISTRATION FORMS

• Individuals who do not have a team shoudl register with thisIND FORM NYS will do our best to pair up inetersted people, but it is up to you to create the team.
• Teams of 2 or more, should register with thisTEAM FORM One per team.
• Registrations are due by Novemebr 3rd.