What is DI?

How can we get kids excited about learning? Destination ImagiNation is a program for kindergarten through college-age students that encourages the application of creative problem solving techniques and tools while developing creative and critical thinking skills in the students who are involved.

Destination ImagiNation is a competition in which students form teams of no more than seven students. They then choose from among the five challenges developed each year to encourage students to think about the challenge topic, to learn how to research, and to apply what they have learned.

Team members may take specific roles to solve the challenge. These roles include: writer, researcher, concept developer, builder, stage manger, performer, and technician (e.g. soldering, welding, metal and wood working). All of the intelligences mentioned by researcher Howard Gardner in his multiple intelligence theory are utilized in DI. Gardner believes we all learn differently because we're all born with varying degrees of at least eight different human intelligences: language, bodily/kinesthetic ability, logic, music, spatial ability, interpersonal skills, intrapersonal skills, and naturalist.

If you have questions or need more information, contact Sue Shanks, Affiliate Director by phone (214-202-5284) or E-mail (sshanks@texasdi.org).