Destination Imagination

By Tessa Barcelo

About

Destination Imagination (more commonly known as DI) has caused a lot of excitement at Wood Hill. Last year, the team MEGA V (now MEGA TV) went to Globals with their awesome skit about an octopus. This year, all three of Wood Hill’s teams went to States and the Kabba Blimey Manatees have made it to Globals. But what is DI?

DI is comprised of two parts- the Central Challenge and the Instant Challenge. In the Instant Challenge, a team is given a task and they have a limited amount of time and materials to complete it. They are then scored on different elements of it. The Central Challenge has many different categories. This year, Wood Hill competed in the Fine Arts, Scientific and Improv challenges. Each challenge has a problem or a scene that the team must make a skit about. There are a few requirements for each one.

Wood Hill’s teams are MEGA TV, Defying Gravity, and the Kabba Blimey Manatees. This year, MEGA TV competed in the Fine Arts challenge, Vanished, Defying Gravity competed in the Scientific, Top Secret, and the Kabba Blimey Manatees competed in the Improv challenge, 3-Peat.

This Year

On March 18, the first competition was held. This was Regionals, at Greater Lawrence Technical School. The Kabba Blimey Manatees and MEGA TV each got first place in their categories and Defying Gravity got second. All of the teams made it to States.

The next competition, States, was held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute on April 2. The competition was fierce, and only one of our teams made it to Globals, the Kabba Blimey Manatees. When asked about their experience with DI, the team in question exploded into rants about things that must have been inside jokes, including “FASHION, FASHION, FASHION”, “water damage”, and “it’s also a cult”.

Team Talk


We talked to members from the teams about DI in general and their experiences with it. “This was my first year and I loved it. I’m definitely doing it again next year,” says Tessa Barcelo, 7th grade, MEGA TV. Maddy Zugel, also a member of MEGA TV in 7th grade, said, “DI, or Destination Imagination, is where we can let our thoughts out in the open. Even if the thoughts are crazy, the thoughts will not be rejected right away. Every crazy idea in your mind you can let out, and those thoughts will be added by other ideas to create something amazing. DI doesn’t really run on too many rules, it runs on your imagination. Your imagination is everything in DI.” Emme Pitts, 8th grade, Kabba Blimey Manatees, said, “What are your food options? I’m on a diet of strictly air.”

Hopefully you know a little more about DI now!