Back-to-School Build-Off: A STEAM Challenge for Teamwork & Creativity
At first glance, tower challenges might seem simple—but don’t be fooled. These quick-build activities pack a powerful educational punch and are perfect for kicking off your school year. Beyond reinforcing foundational STEM concepts, tower challenges promote essential classroom skills like collaboration, communication, creative and critical thinking, and problem-solving. They’re also low-prep, highly flexible, and a […]
Team Numbers Are On Sale for the 25-26 DI Season
What if this year your students didn’t just learn—they discovered, designed, and led? Team Numbers for the 2025-26 Destination Imagination (DI) Challenge Experience are officially on sale! Whether you’re a returning DI fan or totally new to our creative learning community, now’s the perfect time to plan a season of possibility. Why Start Now?Purchasing early […]
2024-25 Team Challenges Now Available!
Welcome to the 2024-25 season of the Destination Imagination (DI) Challenge Experience! We’re thrilled to launch another exciting season filled with creativity, innovation, and teamwork. From unraveling the mysteries of space in Worlds Beyond! to engineering daring displays in High-Wire Act to implementing solutions to real-world issues in This or That, we have 7 new […]
Join the Challenge Experience: 2024-25 Team Numbers Now Available!
Get ready for another incredible year of creativity, collaboration, and innovation! Team Numbers for the 2024-25 season of the Destination Imagination (DI) Challenge Experience are now available. Discover the 2024-25 Team ChallengesFrom engineering marvels to theatrical extravaganzas, our STEAM-based Challenges are designed to ignite curiosity and inspire young minds. We offer six different competitive Team […]
Our 2024-25 Challenge Previews are Here!
Whether you’re just learning about Destination Imagination (DI) or have been a participant or volunteer for years, it’s never too early to get excited about our annual Team Challenges. And next season’s Challenge Previews have just been posted! Check out a sneak peek below and then head to our 2024-25 Challenge Previews page for full […]
Navigating Destination Imagination: How to Choose the Perfect Program
Creativity is a skill that is essential in today’s world. It is the ability to think outside the box, come up with new ideas, and solve problems in innovative ways. At Destination Imagination, our goal is to teach kids and teens the creative process—a step-by-step approach that helps them to better understand problems, ask better […]
7 Life Skills Kids Learn in Destination Imagination
We all share the responsibility of preparing our kids for success—not just academically, but in life as a whole. While academics are essential, it’s equally important to equip students with the life skills that will help them thrive in an ever-changing world. These skills foster independence, resilience, and confidence, empowering children to overcome challenges, make […]
23-24 Team Numbers Now Available!
Ready to use your creativity and imagination in an adventure of a lifetime? We are thrilled to kick off our 2023-24 season of Destination Imagination (DI)! Teams can choose to be part of our in-person Challenge Experience, where they can take on one of our seven standard STEAM-based Team Challenges, or they can opt for our […]
Join the 2023 Digital Open STEAM Competition
Looking for a STEAM program that’s flexible enough to meet your needs? Join us for the 2023 Digital Open! The Digital Open is a seven-week, travel-free STEAM competition open to elementary, middle school, high school, and university students worldwide. Teams can solve the challenge together in person, remotely, at school, or from the comfort of their own homes! […]
Check Out Award-Winning Solutions from Global Finals 2023
Thank you to all of our teams, volunteers, parents, staff members, Affiliate and Regional Directors, and supporters for helping to make this year’s Global Finals tournament such an unforgettable experience and one that truly exemplified the spirit of Destination Imagination. This year, more than 8,000 people attended Global Finals 2023, with nearly 530 teams from […]
How My Team Has Grown Through DI
By Haibei Ren, DI Correspondent and Team Manager in Coppell, Texas Talking about the growth of my Destination Imagination (DI) team is particularly interesting this year because their Team Challenge solution explores the world of Peter Pan–the boy who wouldn’t grow up. In their eight-minute flipped retelling of the story, they hand the narrative to […]
Nikhita Penugonda Reflects on Building her STEM Identity Through Destination Imagination
I’ve always been inquisitive. When I was a kid, I loved watching science documentaries. I loved learning about the world when I couldn’t experience it firsthand. I was captivated by how the stunning spectacles we observe can be explained with equations and theorems. I also loved doing experiments and building things. My mom saw that […]
