Destination Imagination
PPMS is seeking adult volunteers called Team Managers:
Adult 'coaches' — usually parents, teachers or community members who facilitate Destination ImagiNation teams. Teams are formed at the team managers convince. Team manager time commitment depends on the team involvement but averages 40 hours + tournaments.
Applications are in the PPMS office or linked here:
Required team member time commitments: Attend 80% scheduled meetings.
Destination ImagiNation
is a place where kids take what they know and what they are good at and learn to apply it to solve challenges, working together and cooperatively with a team and pushing the limits of imagination to best not their competition, but themselves.
Destination ImagiNation is a community-based, school-friendly program that builds participants' creativity, problem solving, and teamwork in enjoyable and meaningful ways.
Teams of five to seven members work together to apply creativity, critical thinking and their particular talents to solve a Team Challenge.
The Destination ImagiNation Team Challenge is a Challenge that is solved over a period of eight weeks or more. There are five competitive Team Challenges from which teams may choose, each with its own educational focus. Each Team Challenge is designed to be open-ended and solvable in many ways and on many levels.
Challenge A: Technical/Mechanical
Challenge B: Theater Arts/Science
Challenge C: Theater Arts/Fine Arts
Challenge D: Theater Arts/Improvisation
Challenge E: Structural & Architectural Design
Regional information can be found at: http://www.kmdestinationimagination.com
Or contact PPMS DI coordinator Dian Zandi loulton@gmail.com or 373-0102
Destination Imagination is facilitated by parents and cosponsored by PPMS and the PPMS PTO. To find an application form click here.
The most important thing about Destination Imagination is to have FUN!
- The kids take what they know and what they are good at and learn to apply it to solve one of 5 challenges.
- Teams of 7 students take a challenge, generate many ideas to solve the challenge and focus down on one way to come to a conclusion.
- They can use one of many tools and tricks the Team Manager will teach them at the weekly or bi-weekly meetings from November to Regional tournament.
- Team Managers or Parents are not allowed to tell them how to solve their challenge. This would be interference and the kids will not be able to use this advice. Teams usually come to the same conclusion and it would be sad if they couldn't use an idea they would have eventually come up with.
Important "DI" Dates
Regional competition is on Saturday, March 21st 2009 at Kennedy Middle School in Germantown. Appraisers select the best teams for each level of each challenge. The winning teams are then eligible to compete at the affiliate-level,
State competition, which is held on April 18th, 2009 at UW-Stevens Point. This is the last weekend of spring break. We stay over Friday night due to the 2 ½ hour drive. Competition starts early Saturday morning.
Global Finals are held in Knoxville, Tennessee each May. This is the final competition level and is attended by those teams that advance beyond the State level. There are additional costs for lodging, etc. when moving to next competitive level.