About Global Finals

The Destination ImagiNation® program helps kids build important, lifelong skills, like problem solving, teamwork and divergent thinking. Our teams solve two types of Challenges within the program year. The Team Challenge involves structural, technical or theatrically oriented Challenges and takes several months to solve. Throughout that time the teams also practice improvisational Instant Challenges, which stimulate the team’s ability to think quickly and creatively with only minutes to prepare solutions.

Global Finals is a culmination of the year, bringing team winners representing their state, their province, or their country to compete against one another at the annual international creative problem solving tournament held at the University of Tennessee.

Destination ImagiNation® at a Glance

Destination ImagiNation® is not just an extracurricular activity, it is an extension of a Destination ImagiNation® brand of curriculum which draws on Creative Problem Solving strategies and the multiple intelligences of students to use what they have learned in the classroom in new and creative ways. In many places, it is a curriculum staple and also very popular in home school situations.

Destination ImagiNation® helps kids develop a unique and critical skill set by emphasizing:

Creativity Problem Solving Teamwork
Brainstorming
Creative & Critical Thinking Skills Collaboration
Presentation Skills Project Management
Knowledge Application
Confidence
Time Management
Research Skills
Mutual Respect for one Another

Creativity isn’t just a school-year activity. Many state, local and international Affiliates offer creativity activities for kids year-round, including summer camps that incorporate all of the fun and thoughtful activities that make learning interesting.

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Contacts

Destination ImagiNation® State Affiliates

Destination ImagiNation® International Affiliates

Destination ImagiNation® Web Site

Destination ImagiNation® Sponsors

National Dairy Council

International Sponsor of Destination ImagiNation, Inc.

For more than eight years, the International Sponsorship of the NDC has been an important catalyst in providing this program all over the world as we work to develop and nurture creativity in participants. A true commitment has developed between the two organizations: one works to develop a healthy body; the other concentrates on a healthy and creative mind! Both work for a common goal: to help children reach and realize their potential!

3M

3M's 70,000 employees put science and creativity to work everyday producing products that make people's lives better. As 3M approaches its 100th anniversary, it will celebrate a century of creating exciting and useful products in the electronics, telecommunications, industrial, consumer and office health care, safety and other markets. 3M has brought more than 50,000 innovative products to market.

Velcro USA Inc.

Velcro USA Inc. realizes that Destination ImagiNation® is a unique program in that it reaches across all sectors of the population and all interest levels. Through this sponsorship they hope to get the message "there is no such thing as 'Velcro' to hundreds of thousands of people" - it's "hook and loop"

Sponsor EXPO

View photos of EXPO at d2k5 [to be published after Tournament Opening]

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