Early Learning Challenge: A Life-Size Pop Up Book Experience

Early Learning Challenge: A Life-Size Pop Up Book Experience

Our Rising Stars for Early Learners Challenge offers simple experiences with the creative process, and it gives young kids (preschool through 2nd grade) a place to work together and make new friends. For this season’s Rising Stars Challenge, Pop Up, kids will explore fiction and nonfiction stories and then create and present their own story […]

Destination Imagination is Going Digital!

Destination Imagination is Going Digital!

Destination Imagination is proud to announce that beginning with the 2018-19 season, we will deliver our Challenge materials in a 100% digital format. This includes the Team Challenges, Rules of the Road, Roadmap, Quick Start Guide, and Instant Challenge Practice Set. Together with our Affiliate leadership, we have elected to transition to digital delivery for […]

Service Learning Challenge: Make a Difference in Your Community

Service Learning Challenge: Make a Difference in Your Community

Going out and saving the world is no small feat. It takes time, passion and dedicated work. In this season’s Service Learning Challenge, Escape Artists, your team will identify a community need and then plan and execute a project that will address the need. For your tournament, your team will create and present a story […]

Engineering Challenge: Have a ‘Monsterific’ Time

Engineering Challenge: Have a Monsterific Good Time

On again, off again! For this season’s Engineering Challenge, Monster Effects, your team will design a structure from a specified set of materials. You’ll test how much weight it can hold without failing by placing and then removing as many weights as possible. Your team will also create a story in which the sudden appearance […]

Improvisational Challenge: Think Fast and Have Some Laughs!

Improvisational Challenge: Think Fast and Have Some Laughs!

For this season’s Improvisational Challenge, Heads Up, your team will research historical figures found on coins from around the world. At your tournament, you’ll create a two-part improvisational skit that includes historical figures in your tale. You’ll present the skit in two parts, changing between comedy and tragedy. But there’s a twist! At the tournament, […]

Fine Arts Challenge: Get Your ‘Game On’

Fine Arts Challenge: Get Your ‘Game On’

It’s time to get your Game On! In this season’s Fine Arts Challenge, your team will create and present a story that integrates research of a team-selected game, as well as a team-created game gizmo. Remember how exciting it was to open a game for the first time? Your team will capture that sense of […]

Scientific Challenge: Can You Solve the Medical Mystery?

Scientific Challenge: Can You Solve this Medical Mystery?

Our bodies can do amazing things, but sometimes unusual symptoms appear. In this season’s Scientific Challenge, your team will investigate the human body and present a story about a medical mystery. Your team members will flex your creativity and engineering muscles as you design a Sympt-O-Matic that uses technical methods to show how the medical […]

Technical Challenge: Time to Get ‘On Target’

Technical Challenge: Time to Get ‘On Target’

It’s time to launch your creativity into the great blue yonder! In this season’s Technical Challenge, On Target, your team will design and build an aircraft that is capable of flight. The aircraft will also need to carry and drop payloads into a designated payload drop zone. But that’s not all! Your team will also […]

Get an Inside Look at Our New Challenges

Get an Inside Look at Our New Challenges

It’s almost time for a new season of Destination Imagination! Starting September 1, 2018, you will be able to review and download each of our 2018-19 Team Challenges after purchasing your Team Number. In the meantime, check out our 2018-19 Challenge Preview videos and get an inside look at what’s in store for the upcoming season. Stay […]

10 Benefits of Project-Based Learning

10 Benefits of Project-Based Learning

Project-based learning (PBL) is more than just a teaching method; it’s an immersive, hands-on experience that ignites curiosity, nurtures creativity, teaches life and career skills, and prepares us for the challenges of the real world. According to research conducted by The Autodesk Foundation, studies have shown that project-based learning is linked to significant improvements in student […]

STEAM Crafts for Kids: Homemade Instruments

STEAM Crafts for Kids: Homemade Instruments

Encourage creativity and play while the kids are at home with these homemade instrument ideas. Check out five of our favorite designs. Guitar: Grab a shoe box or cereal box and get crafting on your new Fender! Ok, maybe it’s not a real Fender, but with some fiddling, a simple guitar tune is well within […]