Ah Destination Imagination, dreaded by students, and mildly celebrated by teachers. This year is my first year in PLP and as you could imagine it was my first time participating in D.I as well, coming into into PLP I heard a lot of groaning whenever someone mentioned destination imagination. In my opinion it was a lot of fun, so I would assume last years D.I was just bit more hectic, or maybe the groups didn’t work well together, but I’m getting sidetracked, I haven’t even told you what D.I even is. Destination Imagination is a yearly event that is designed to challenge kids to get creative, there are different categories of challenges all with different creative constraints, my group (consisting of Jason, Caleb, Amelia R, and myself) were in the scientific group. This year the scientific challenge was to create and/or research a medical mystery which could be identified by a symptomatic, we then had to create a script/story with two team choice elements involved (unique things our group could do in our presentation) there are many more minor details/constraints/rules that were involved but I hope that you get the gist of it.

 

Reflection:

Unfortunately I was very sick for the first week of D.I so I couldn’t really help with the script and concept of our play but my group bailed me out on that one (thanks guys) I did a little bit of bounce back and I helped as much as I could with the backdrop and tweaking the script and other stuff, soon enough the day of regionals was just around the corner and we had to memorize our scripts, I think I did fairly decently performing, I got a few laughs which was really cool, in fact everyone in my group did amazing jobs performing and preparing, and quite honestly Sam and Jason stole the show they even made me chuckle while I was behind the backdrop (you can sort of hear it in our video).

Overall, knowing that 2/5 of our group members were doing D.I for the first time, I don’t think we did half bad, but there was definitely room to improve going into the provincials but you can read about that next time on my radical blog.

So, as always thanks for reading and have a great.rest of your day/night.