We are the bean Town Buddies, a fanstastic DI group filled with awesome people such as Aidan Mallie, Lucas Mcgee, Daniel Boglari, Susan E, and Francis Rawlings.

The past few months with Destination Imagination have been chaotic but beneficial, as I developed skills in communication, collaboration, problem solving, and time management. Despite experiencing stress, frustration, and anxiety, I found the experience valuable in expanding my knowledge and life skills. We were under a huge time crunch, so it made it very stressful. There are 4 sections that you could work in, however I did the “Going the Distance” challenge. Our main goal was to make a machine that could launch a bean bag 2 different ways with dimensions under 20″ by 20″. Along side that, you have to have a story including the machine in it. Ours was a wacky story, it included a horse, an evil tech-man, 2 friends and a person without a phone.

This project has brought me to face my fears and do stuff I’ve never done before. At one point I though we were never going to finish and we ended getting it done last second. I also worked with people ive never met which was weird at first until I got to know them. This project was different than the others because I thought I had so much time, but it started getting closer and closer by the minute making me realize how little time I had and started working on it.

During our presentation on the day, we were not fully prepared because I was the only person that knew there lines. However it all went smoothly even though we were improvising. I wish my group came to more tutorial times because that is the only time we had to work on it and none of my group showed up to it.

Regarding no one showing up, I need to work on my communication. We had been contacting each other through our iPads, and since we don’t take our iPads anywhere but school, we cant communicate very well. We can fix this by adding our phone numbers to our group chat. That way we can be more responsive and have accurate feedback on what happening.

I think DI is a very fun project. The reason I say is and not was is because its still going, right after spring break we will have to go straight back to preparing because we are hosting the Nationals right here in seycove. So far, I have learned so much from DI and look forward to whats to come.