To all of our amazing Team Managers and Tournament Volunteers, We appreciate all your patience as we work out new scheduling for the North Metro, South Metro and Cherry Creek Tournaments. Cherry Creek is being held Sunday, March 10. Please drive safely. Destination Imagination works with school districts to put on tournaments. We are the guests of our host districts. When the districts close for weather reasons, we also must suspend our tournaments. Most of our Tournament Directors are volunteers, … Continue reading >>

Littleton Public Schools has cancelled all extracurricular activities for March 9th. The South Metro Tournament has therefore been cancelled for tomorrow. The South Metro Tournament Committee is working to come up with an alternative plan. Please stay tuned to our website for more information. Cherry Creek School District has suspended events for Saturday. Our tournament will take place on Sunday. We will adhere to the same tournament schedule. If you were volunteering to set up, Friday, March 8, please still … Continue reading >>

This afternoon Douglas County Schools published the following information on their website: “The Douglas County School District is canceling all activities on Saturday March 9, due to the incoming snowstorm. The National Weather Service has issued a Blizzard Warning for the area effective from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday. The District closure includes all athletic activities, drama performances, regional SAT Testing, and facility use rentals.” Because Destination Imagination is a District-sponsored activity, this affects our participation in the scheduled … Continue reading >>

Yes, it is going to snow tomorrow! All tournaments are scheduled to continue. The tournaments will continue UNLESS the School District suspends all activities. We want you to stay safe and drive carefully. Schedules may be in flux due to the weather, we ask that everyone remain patient and calm and flexible. All tournaments will be doing their best to remain on schedule. Please make sure you give you and your team plenty of time to get to your tournament … Continue reading >>

The flaw in the decision to eliminate shop classes is that you simply can’t design something if you don’t have a clue how it will be built. That’s the problem I see with my Destination Imagination kids. I thought I would be teaching these kids creative thinking skills and instead I’ve become a shop teacher. Continue reading >>

My wife, Susan, and I attended Love and Logic® parenting classes in as a means to help us survive the “terrible 2s” and the “decade of diapers”.  We found the methods and concepts very effective and useful. Now, a dozen years later, we are coaching a high school and a middle school DI team and I’m constantly struck by the number of times at a DI meeting that I think to myself, “Wow, there’s yet another Love and Logic® moment.” … Continue reading >>

This video shows a team in action. Take 4 minutes to really see what Destination Imagination is all about! The Creativity Club, a middle school team from the North Metro Region talks to a film crew while getting ready to compete at the state competition. http://www.hdnetmovies.com/blogs/destination-imagination

Scott and Susan Dalgleish have a passion for teaching kids creative thinking skills and feel Destination Imagination is a fantastic venue for this.This is Scott’s third and Susan’s second year as DI Team Managers. They have three children: Sarah (14), Emily (11), and James (7) and live in Boulder, Colorado. Scott primarily coaches Sarah’s 8th-grade DI team in the Technical Challenge, while Susan coaches Emily’s 6th-grade team in the Fine Arts Challenge. They act as assistants on each other’s team, … Continue reading >>

I’m still a frustrated and exhausted DI coach, but I’ve accomplished my goal of giving my team members a tremendous head-start with valuable, real-world skills that were learned the best way – the hard way. In 9 years, I can’t wait to hire these kids. Continue reading >>

Over the winter break we scheduled two “extra” meetings that were completely optional, since some kids had other plans for their winter break and we didn’t want them to feel torn about being here for the meetings. This was just time when the kids could get together and keep working on their solution, but not such structured meetings that those who weren’t there missed out on key skill-building. The relaxed atmosphere seemed to really help their motivation!  They made a … Continue reading >>

In the fall of 2009, our daughter came home from 5th grade with a flier about Destination Imagination. She REALLY wanted to do this program, and it sounded great to us. We attended the information session at the school, became even more excited about the program, learned there were several kids her age interested in joining a team, and then found out there were no open spots on any existing teams.  After thinking about it for a few days, my … Continue reading >>

Before I started posting blogs on the Extreme Creativity site, I was writing them on our team’s collaboration website for the parents to read.  I’m posting a few of them here as well: October 7, 2011:  Off to a good start! We’ve had 2 meetings so far, plus a skills workshop.  The first meeting we played a quiz game to test the kids’ knowledge of the challenge, and they did fairly well.  Those who hadn’t studied the challenge as much … Continue reading >>

This is our third year as co-managers of a DI team.  We really thought by now we’d have it all figured out and “get it right” this year.  Yet here we are, having already had FIFTEEN team meetings, and the team hasn’t yet completed what they originally planned to finish in October. Lesson: Starting earlier than last year doesn’t necessarily mean more progress, and only takes up more of our beautiful fall weekends? At least we’ve had fun seeing the … Continue reading >>

This morning my co-manager/dear husband and I attended the IC Skills Workshop for Team Managers hosted by DI Colorado. Though it was hard to crawl out of bed “early” on a Saturday morning and drive quite a ways on icy roads, we were COMPLETELY delighted with the knowledge we gained and people we met at today’s team manager training. I never doubted for a second it would be worth it, based on past Colorado DI events. We learned what appraisers … Continue reading >>