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What is Destination Imagination?

DI is a project-based learning educational program. A fun hands-on system of learning that enables participants to

achieve their highest potential. Participants gain knowledge and experience in the skills needed for

the 21st Century workforce including:

Project Management Financial Management Time Management Presentation skills Collaboration Conflict resolution Creative and Critical thinking Perseverance Completion Mindset

The Destination Imagination Program

Destination Imagination® (DI) participants learn the collaborative problem solving process while solving open-ended Challenges.

The Challenges provide an opportunity for students to apply their academic knowledge and learn additional life skills:

STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) Skills

Service Learning Skills Project Management Skills

• 150,000 participants each year

• 1.5 million DI Alumni

• 38,000 Volunteers worldwide cumulatively contribute more than 750,000 hours to support the program.

• 48 States & 30 countries

• More than $100,000 in Scholarships given each year

• Over 17,000 students compete in the Global Finals Tournament each year.

International Program

When and where do teams participate?

After School

Programs, Clubs, &

Enrichment Programs

Incorporated into the

classroom curriculum

and as Elective Classes

Teams can be formed by Schools, Parents,

Community Groups, Clubs,

and Organizations

Friends and neighbors form

teams and meet in homes,

garages, community

centers, etc.

Participation

Teams participate and compete based on their age or grade level.*

• Pathways (ages 3 to 6, non-competitive)• Rising Stars! (Preschool-2nd grade, non-competitive)

• Elementary (K to 5th grade)• Middle (6th to 8th grade) • Secondary (9th to 12th grade)• University (Post-Secondary students)*A team’s competition level is determined by the age/grade of the oldest team member.

Team Managers

• Each team must have an adult Team Manager

• Team Managers help students stay on track but do not directly help the team develop its solution to the Destination Imagination (DI) Challenge

• Roadmap provides lesson plans for meetings to help guide you

• Team Managers may be teachers, parents, friends, family members, scout or youth group leaders, etc.

• SVDI Face-to-face Training

• California On-line Training

The Destination Imagination Program

• DI Program Season is September through May.

• Teams develop a solution to one Team Challenge.

• Teams typically spend two to six months: • Team Building• Skill Building• Practicing Instant Challenges• Developing & Practicing their Team Challenge solution

Program OverviewTeam Challenges

• There are seven new Team Challenges from each year .

• Each Team Challenge has a different learning focus.

• Most Team Challenges have a Team Choice Element scoring requirement that allows a teams to choose what is scored. This enables a team to show off their team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

Technical Team ChallengePace of Change

The Technical Challenge prompts students to complete tasks by using engineering, research, strategic planning and related skills.

• Design and build a vehicle able to carry at least one team member across the presentation site multiple times.

• Change the vehicle propulsion system and the vehicle movement method during the presentation.

• Create and present a story about change. The story will include a change in a character.

• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

Scientific Team Challenge

In Plain Sight

The Scientific Challenge blends the research and curiosity of science with the thrill and creativity of the theater arts.

• Research the many ways that camouflage is used by organisms in nature.

• Showcase camouflage research in the visible appearance of an organism.

• Create and present a story with a plot twist that is caused by the use of camouflage.

• Apply camouflage methods to an original, team-designed and created set piece or prop.

• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

Fine Arts Team Challenge

Get A Clue

In the Fine Arts Challenge, students flex their acting and artistic muscles as they explore some of our most fascinating works of literature and media.

• Present a mystery story set on Earth in a team-chosen time period before 1990.

• Discover, live on stage, which of the three suspect characters is responsible for the mystery.

• Include a TechniClue that helps solve the mystery.

• Present in the style of traverse staging.

• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

Improvisational Team Challenge

Close Encounters

The Improvisational Challenge is all about spontaneity and storytelling. Teams receive topics and produce skits right on the spot.

• Research Challenge-provided confined spaces.

• Create and perform a four-minute improvisational presentation within a confined space.

• Show how characters work together to address a news flash.

• Integrate a mysterious stranger and a team-created miscellaneous prop into the presentation.

Structural Team Challenge

Musical Mashup

The Structural Challenge asks teams to design, build and test load-bearing structures out of specific materials.

• Design and build a structure that both supports weight and is a musical instrument.

• Play a musical solo using the structure as a musical instrument.

• Tell a story with at least one musical character.

• Integrate the story with the weight placement testing of the structure.

• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

Service Learning – Project OutreachTeam Challenge

The MEME Event

The Service Learning Challenge is designed to engage students in community service to address real community issues through personal expression.

• Use the creative process to identify, design, plan, and carry out a project that addresses a real community need.

• Plan and carry out at least one community event that is designed to help meet the project goal(s).

• Create an effective meme to help meet the project goal(s).

• Create a live presentation that highlights the project and the impact it made on the community.

• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength and talents.

Early Learning Rising Stars! Team Challenge

Change in Direction

Rising Stars! is a Challenge created for early learners. To solve the Challenge, 4- to 7-year-old children work together on performances complete with characters, props and scripts.

• Learn about maps and how they are helpful to people.

• Create a play that is about a journey your team is on.

• Make a change in direction at some point during your play.

• Make a map to help your team on your journey.

Instant Challenges

AT THE TOURNAMENT

• At a tournament, a team will receive an Instant Challenge and the materials with which to solve it.

• The team members must think on their feet to produce a solution in a period of just five to eight minutes.

• Instant Challenges are performance-based, task-based, or a combination of the two.

• Instant Challenges are kept confidential until the day of the tournament.

Teams present their Team Challenge solution and solve an Instant Challenge at:

• Regional Tournaments.• Affiliate (State or Country) Tournaments. • Global Tournament (International).

Top scoring teams in each

level of the competitive

Challenges at a tournament

advance to the next level of

tournament.

Tournaments

• At Tournaments, each team presents their Team Challenge solution to Appraisers and a live audience.

• Each team also solves an Instant Challenge where they must think on their feet to produce a solution in a short period of time – usually 5-8 minutes.

Tournaments

The DI Program Season

2-4 Weeks

Building your Team

Understanding the

Challenge

2-4 WeeksGenerating

and Incubating

Ideas/Research/

Inquiry

2-4 WeeksFocusing/

Preparing for Action/Puttin

g it All Together

2-4 WeeksReady, Set,

Go! Preparing for

your Tournament

Support: Team Manager

Training sessions;

SVDI Coffee Talk

Support: Instant

Challenge Skills

Workshop for teams;

SVDI Coffee Talk

Support: Team Manager Walkthrough;

SVDI Coffee Talk

Support: DI Skills

Workshop for Team

Managers;SVDI Coffee

Talk Silicon Valley Regional

Tournament

Volunteering is FUN and Rewarding!

The California Destination Imagination program is administered entirely by Volunteers.

Volunteers are Valued!

• Your role as a California Destination Imagination Volunteer is important and valued.

• There are volunteer roles available at every level of the organization.

• Training sessions are available locally for Team Managers and Appraisers.

Each Team MUST have the following volunteers to participate in a California Destination Imagination tournament:

At least One Team Manager over 18 years old and no longer in high school.• Mentor Destination Imagination teams. • Training opportunities available. • May have Assistants and Co-Team Managers.

One Trained Appraiser required for Regional Tournament. One Trained & Experienced Appraiser required for Affiliate Tournament. Assess the teams’ Presentations at tournaments. Person to person training provided and required.

At least One Tournament Volunteer

Assist with various jobs that help make tournaments successful.

FUN & Rewarding Volunteer Roles

Why should you and your child participate in

Destination Imagination?

No one cares more about your child’s education than you do!

The Destination Imagination Program is key to enriching your child’s education and preparing

them for the future…

Visit www.IDODI.org and “Get Involved” by Starting a Team!

Purchase a Team Number:• Purchase online at www.ShopDI.org;• Select California as the Affiliate:

• First Unique Team Number: $180

• Additional Unique Team Numbers: $145

• Rising Stars! Team Numbers: $145

• Pathways Program: $199

Complete California Registration at Register.CalDI.org

Silicon Valley Regional Fee varies. It is based on when the team’s California Registration is completed on-line at Register.CalDI.org.

Start a Team!

Silicon Valley Calendar • Team Manager Training

Part 1: Oct. 14 – 7:00-9:00 pm Nov. 3-- 7:00 – 9:00 pm Part 2 & RS: Oct. 21 – 7:00-9:00 pm Nov. 10 – 7:00-9:00 pmOctober & November Training sessions at DeVargas Elementary

• Instant Challenge Workshop for Teams – Nov. 14 @ Country Lane Elementary Event Registration required & begins October 17, 2015

• DI Skills Workshop for Team Managers – Dec. 5 @ DeVargas Elementary Event Registration required & begins November 7, 2015

• Early-bird Registration – Dec. 10, 2015 -- $150

• Team Manager Walkthrough & Registration Deadline -- $200• Walkthrough Jan. 9, 2016 – 8:30 am – 12:00 pm – DeVargas Elem.

• Late Registration Deadline – Jan. 23, 2016 -- $300

• Appraiser Training - Jan. 30 & Feb. 6 from 8:30 am – noon – Bubb Elem.

• SVDI Regional Tournament – Mar. 5, 2016 – All Day – Independence High

• California Affiliate Tournament – April 2, 2016 – All Day – Riverside, CA• $200 Affiliate Tournament fee per team

Resources• Web Sites

• Destination Imagination (DI) www.IDODI.org• California Affiliate (CalDI) www.CALDI.org• Silicon Valley Region (SVDI) SV.CALDI.org

• California Silicon Valley Regional Web SiteJoin & be an active member of the

SVDI Team Manager Forum Group

Visit often for updates on local events

Regional Tournament Registration & Merchandise Forms, & Information

Regional Tournament Information

General Information, Maps, Schedule, Volunteer Assignments

• Regional Director – Mary Jane Campbell• Email: rd-sv@caldi.org

• Regional Board & Challenge Masters

THANK YOU