“Destination Imagination is a hands-on, project-based educational experience that encourages creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking skills. Destination Imagination applies the creative process to help student teams create their own unique solutions to the requirements posed by the Challenges”-Destination Imagination

My group’s team challenge in Destination Imagination is Up Close scientific. And in Up-Close scientific we have to make a story about the Microworld and characters encountering a mysterious object, you also have to have one microscopy imaging technique, and we chose darkfield. So far in Destination Imagination my group and I have written most of our story for our presentation, planned out what we need to buy, planned out our team choice elements, planned out meeting and already had 2 meetings. We’ve also already planned out our visual effect and started building it. Our team choice elements are music and

Our team is called the Bacterial Besties because our our story is about bacteria and the bacteria we chose to do it on is salmonaella.

You may be asking what is a team choice element?

Well, a team choice element is something that shows off your teams strengths. For example, one of my team’s team choice elements are music, because we all like music and are creating a soundtrack for our story.

Also, what is the mysterious object?

The mysterious object is an object that a character or characters encounter in the Microworld.

What is the visual effect?

The visual effect something using a technical method to enhance the mysterious object. You may have more than one visual effect.

Here is something that my team worked on during on of our team meetings, it is for the background of our story.

Here is another photo of me and Susan building the support for our microscope in the other photo above.

My group also did built a wood support for black tablecloths that we would paint and flip over on certain scenes during the presentation of our story.

“Destination Imagination Instant Challenges are designed to help children understand that by working collaboratively and following their innate curiosity, they can approach any problem with confidence and tenacity. Instant Challenges can be performance-based, task-based or a combination of the two”-Destination Imagination

Another aspect of Destination Imagination is the instant challenge. The instant challenge is where you’ll be just your group and the appraisers, the appraisers will give you a challenge with a few minutes to plan and build and a few minutes to present what you’ve created with limited, random resources. Some things that will get you points in an instant challenge is teamwork, presentation, creativity, and the design of your creation.

You can also check out my team members blog posts here: Kadin, Susan, Caden, Callum, Jackson, and Naomi.