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How Is Your Team Making an Impact?

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Service Learning teams across Destination Imagination are making a difference in their communities. Share your team’s project and help us spotlight the creativity, collaboration, and impact happening around the world.

Apply for a 2026 DI Scholarship

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We’re excited to announce three incredible scholarship opportunities for students participating in the 2025-26 season of the Destination Imagination Challenge Experience: the DI Graduate of the Year Award, the Founders Award, and the DI Scholar Award. Applications are officially open! Scholarship Details Who Can Apply? These scholarships are open to students graduating from high school […]

Creativity in Motion: Destination Imagination’s 2025 Annual Report

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Creativity rarely looks like a single moment of inspiration. More often, it takes shape over time through trying ideas, working through challenges, collaborating with others, and learning along the way. Destination Imagination’s 2025 Annual Report highlights what that process looked like across our global community during the past fiscal year. At its core, the report […]

Yeti’s Winter Workshop STEAM Challenge

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Looking for a winter STEAM activity that goes beyond worksheets and crafts—one that invites students to think creatively, collaborate, and work through a real problem together? Yeti’s Winter Workshop Sorter is a hands-on STEAM challenge designed to do exactly that. In this playful, winter-themed scenario, a snowstorm has swept through a Yeti’s workshop, mixing up […]

Welcoming Mark Giordono as Destination Imagination’s CEO

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As we begin a new year, we’re excited to share an important leadership update with the Destination Imagination community. Destination Imagination is pleased to welcome Mark Giordono as our next Chief Executive Officer. Mark will officially step into the role on January 15, following Michele Tuck-Ponder’s tenure as CEO. Mark brings more than two decades […]

A Holiday Update from DI Headquarters

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At this time of year, some of our international teams are stepping onto tournament floors, sharing their ideas, and presenting the solutions they’ve worked so hard to create. At the same time, many of our U.S. teams are still deep in the process—meeting, building, testing, rethinking, and discovering what their solutions might become as they […]

Thank You for the Journey: A Message From Our CEO

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Dear Friends, Supporters, and Partners, As I prepare to conclude my time as CEO of Destination Imagination at the end of 2025, I want to take a moment to share my appreciation with our incredible community of learners, donors, volunteers, staff, and partners. It has been an honor to serve this organization and to witness […]

Stories Brought to Life: Celebrating the 2025 Team Film Challenge Winners

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Each year, the Destination Imagination Team Film Challenge invites students around the world to step into the role of filmmakers—dreaming, designing, and producing an original short film in just eight weeks. The experience blends creativity, collaboration, and hands-on problem solving, all guided by the Destination Imagination Creative Process that helps students turn their ideas into […]

Teachers Agree: Every Student Needs These 4 Skills

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A global study by Cambridge International, involving more than 3,000 teachers and 4,000 students across 150 countries, revealed a striking consensus: grades alone won’t decide whether today’s students succeed. Instead, four skills consistently rose to the top—subject knowledge, self-management, communication (oracy), and adaptability. Teachers in the study argued that these abilities will determine whether students […]

The Human Spark: Why the Destination Imagination Creative Process is a Life Skill

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By Johnny Wells, Director of Education, Destination Imagination Reflect on the last time you created something from scratch. Maybe you renovated a room the way you imagined it, cooked a dish without a recipe, or designed and planted a garden that finally grew. Remember that spark of accomplishment—the feeling that came from taking nothing and […]

Against All Odds: The 2025 Destination Imagination Team Film Challenge

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The most powerful stories often start with a simple question: what if? What if two rival groups were forced to work together when a greater danger appeared? What if color itself carried meaning that could change the course of a story? What if your students could learn how to tell those stories while also building […]