2024-25 Team Challenges Now Available!

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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!

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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!

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

Back To School STEAM: Book Tower Challenge

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When you come across tower activities for kids, you might think, “This looks easy. How does this benefit my kids?” First, don’t be fooled! Tower challenges can be more difficult than you think. Second, in addition to teaching children basic STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) principles, tower activities teach kids a wide range of […]

Save the Date for Global Finals 2023

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UPDATED (8/24/22): We are pleased to announce that Global Finals 2023 will take place May 20-23 in Kansas City, Missouri.  Global Finals is the culminating tournament for each season of Destination Imagination’s Challenge Experience, with the top teams from around the world competing in their respective Team Challenges. How to Qualify Teams that qualify at their […]