What it is...

Destination Imagination is an after school program for creative thinkers. It is a place where students take what they know and what they are good at and learn to apply it to solve challenges, working together and cooperatively with a team and pushing the limits of imagination to better not their competition, but themselves.

Destination Imagination is a community-based, school-friendly program that builds participants' creativity, problem solving, and teamwork in enjoyable and meaningful ways.

Teams of five to seven members work together to apply creativity, critical thinking and their particular talents to solve a Team Challenge.

Once the teams have been chosen they meet after school once a week beginning in November. The groups work on team building and teamwork through Instant Challenge practice.

The Team Challenge is a Challenge that is solved over a period of eight weeks or more. There are five competitive Team Challenges from which teams may choose, each with its own educational focus. Each Team Challenge is designed to be open-ended and solvable in many ways and on many levels.

The Instant Challenge is a Challenge teams are asked to solve in a very short period of time at their Tournament, without knowing ahead of time what the Challenge will be. Teams go into a room and are given a Challenge and the materials with which to solve it. They use their thinking-on-their-feet skills to produce a solution, usually in a period of five to eight minutes!

Students interested in Destination Imagination must be self-motivated, hard-working, and able to think outside of the box. They must also be committed to attending all after school practices and must be available all day the day of the regional tournament the first Saturday in March.

For more information about Destination Imagination go to www.idodi.org.

2006- 2007 Teams

This year the regional tournament took place in Kerrville at B.T. Wilson on March 3, 2007. There were 3 teams present representing B.T. Wilson. They included the BTW Mysteries, BTW Wild Cards, and BTW Believers. Students comprising the BTW Believers team were Cori Adams, Olivia Bates, Kimberly Garza, Brianna Hamilton, Jordan Ottmers and Jillian Palmer. The BTW Wild Cards were Emily Bailey, Ryan Beeman, Jessica Meyners, Madeline Roloff, Merritt Sukala and Ben Viola. The BTW Mysteries team members were Lauren Avery, Marisela Castro, Claire Russell, Cody Turner and Marissa Zepeda.

There was quite a bit of participation and generous help given by the B.T. Wilson staff. They brought snacks, judged teams, greeted teams from the region, and provided entertainment.

At the final awards ceremony at the Tivy Gymnasium, the BTW Mysteries earned 5th place ribbons. BTW Believers earned 4th place ribbons and the BTW Wild Cards earned 2nd place medals.