Well, it’s that time of year again. Recently the PLP classes of grade 8, 9 and 10 competed in Destination Imagination and it went pretty well. It’s a competition where teams are assigned a task and must create a presentation which involves the solution of the task, it is a global event and offers a fun and competitive experience.

Destination imagination is always a project I love doing but I have always had a bit of difficulty doing it. Before we go on to provincials we need to review what happened and what we need to improve on for next time.

I was in the maze craze challenge with Kiefer, Emily, Kai and Lucas. We had to make a maze traveller to navigate a maze chosen at random. We needed a prop to transform in the maze and a prop for the maze traveller to extract from the maze. For the transformation prop Emily built some moving dragon wings that would act as a costume to go with her character. For the prop removal we had a cardboard apple with a magnet which was to be picked by the maze traveller. The maze traveller itself was a rc car that was able to navigate the maze successfully. In the regional tournament these all worked really well except we forgot to fully extract the apple from the maze.

Part of Emily’s dragon costume

I think that we did a really good job in regionals especially as our team pulled a lot of stuff together at the last minute. In the last week we revised the majority of our stuff and a lot of us weren’t in the best mindset for it. Our team had a few issues regarding decision making and work completion in my opinion. We had a few things that weren’t completed until the last week and we had little time to fully go over our script and performance together. I think that this showed in our performance and it may have hindered us a bit. We have been working hard on our lines since regionals and we are going to have them all memorized by provincials.

I messed up at one point during the performance and I think I just need to practice a bit more. I also think I can improve in other areas as well. During the preparation for regionals I did the stuff assigned to me but I didn’t really step outside of the work I had to do and I think I could’ve supported my team members a bit more. I think that my team did a great job and if I had crossed over to other peoples parts I could’ve been a slight bit more useful.

I think the props we made looked good with the story that we came up with. The story was Norse themed and had backdrops and a soundtrack made by Lucas. Other than the soundtrack needing a few more tracks nothing really needed to be fixed in regard to the story which followed a chief as he embarks on a quest to save his village.

Overall I really enjoyed Destination Imagination regionals and the process of preparing for it and I am very excited to got to provincials.