Newburyport Today headed down to Triton High School on Saturday to cheer on Newburyport’s Destination imagination teams. The enthusiasm was contagious! The kids all did a great great job. We wanted to post a few photos and some information. Check Back to this post tomorrow for updates on how the teams did and who is moving on to the State competition. We are waiting on their scores and will post as soon as we get them.
About: Destination ImagiNation™ is the world’s largest non-profit, volunteer-driven organization devoted to helping kids gain practical life skills through interesting, entertaining and mind-boggling challenges. Our community and school-based program begins in August/September when the year’s Challenges are issued. All the challenges are designed to follow the educational standards.
Teams of up to seven students choose their challenge and work for months developing their solution. Volunteer team managers (parents, teachers or community volunteers) facilitate the group, but cannot give technical or other assistance. Kids are empowered to design, produce and present all of their own work. Teams present their solutions at regional and state tournaments, which demonstrates to teams that there are many ways to solve the same problem. High scoring teams may advance to the ultimate creativity showdown, Global Finals, held each May at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
