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 >>