Destination Imagination (DI) is back! DI is a chance to have some fun with your closest friends and will make you more open-minded while preparing for a variety of challenges and competition. There are seven new challenges this year, which students will tackle using their creative spirit and teamwork. Wood Hill students are participating on a variety of teams this year, including one led by music teacher Mrs. Murray. "I think it is a fun experience socially, you can have imagination and let it out, it's a non-bullying place, and a great thing to do to do with friends, or to make new friends, and it's a creative way to show thinking," says Angelina Robbins, a member of Mrs. Murray's DI team.
The challenge themes are technical, scientific, structural, fine arts, improv, service learning, and an early learning challenge for grades K-2. Each team of 4-7 kids choose one challenge and prepare a solution to present (in an eight minute skit) at the regional competition in March. (regionals is the first competition, if you get 1st at Regionals, you go to States, and if you get 1st there you go to Globals in Tennessee.)
For the technical challenge, named Creature Feature, teams will have to make a fully-functioning creature to complete a series of tasks in the skit. For the fine arts challenge, named Feary Tales, teams will have to create a fairy tale about a character who faces and deals with a phobia. In the improv challenge, named The Improv Games, teams will create three independent two-minute improvisational skits with a one minute planning time and practice incorporating random elements.
Teams will also take part in an Instant Challenge, a 5-10 minute, task or performance-based challenge that stretches your teamwork and creativity to the limits.
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