Monthly Archives: May 2010

Day Two of the 2010 Global Finals Competition

As of today 32 of the 46 Colorado teams have completed their long term challenges. All of the teams we’ve seen so far have given excellent performances. The schools they represent should be very proud. Our day started out with with the three Project Out Reach teams. Their performances included information about a public service they’d performed while doing researching. These three teams needed to include music as the central theme. St Vincent dePaul choose working with their local school … Continue reading >>

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The Team Challenges – Thursday

Today’s challenge viewing consisted of 6 Breaking DI News teams, 5 Direct Deposit teams, 2 Do or DI teams and one You’re Gonna Flip team. Because there are several teams scheduled for the same it was next to impossible to see everyone. We tried to split up but still missed the SVDP Alumni team due to the buses running behind schedule. The teams did a great job today. We’ve seen all but one of the Breaking DI News and DIrect … Continue reading >>

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Global Finals begins…..

The first day at global finals the energy is pumping, pins from all over the world are out there to be discovered, traded and bargained for, but best of all…. the most creative kids from over 20 countries are together. A global, creativity melting pot. Every team with their own unique solution to their challenge is preparing to show their best and most creative work to the appraisers. A final opportunity to show them what they’ve got. By today the … Continue reading >>

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Photos from the State Destination ImagiNation Tournament

It took longer than I wanted to get these posted to our web site but we needed to make an upgrade to our system before posting them. All the photos here plus many more from the tournament are available for sale through our sponsor Kokoro Photography so….  if you see one of your team you’re welcome to purchase several.    Any profits will go back to the Colorado Destination ImagiNation program. Click here to see all the photos: Kokoro Photography

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St. Mary’s Academy Makes Headlines in the Denver Post!

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