Everyone has t-shirts at Regionals, and now you can get the NH-DI T-shirts, TIE-DYED and NH-DI Naturally!
And at a SAVINGS!
Wondering what to wear for Regionals? We've solved that challenge with the AMAZING TIE-DYED shirt with NH-DI Naturally on the front.
You can even have YOUR TEAM NAME on the shirt as well!.
Click the image above to see 10 more reasons you must have the shirt!
Download the order form for this shirt |
Graduate's Creativity Tassel
Graduating this year? Nothing says IDODI like the Class of 2009 Creativity Tassel! It is similar to the tassel below. CLICK HERE FOR THE DETAILS!
Ever wonder who Appraises the Challenges that all these DI'er do? Volunteer Appraisers are trained to do it and each team needs to provide one!
THANKS FOR AN AMAZING TRAINING at Pennichuck Middle School In Nashua. Click for photos of this training!
Appraiser Information (PDF)Click to Register to AppraiseCLICK FOR PHOTOS from Training on Saturday 1/31 |
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Each team shall provide a trained Appraiser ;
Training this or next Saturday
Ever wonder who Appraises the Challenges that all these DI'er do? Volunteer Appraisers are trained to do it and each team needs to provide one!
This year, appraiser training is Saturday, January 31st at Pennachuck Middle School in Nashua or February 7th in Penacook's Merrimack Valley Middle School.
Appraiser Information (PDF)Click to Register to Appraise |
Everyone has t-shirts at Regionals, and now you can get the NH-DI T-shirts, TIE-DYED and NH-DI Naturally!
And at a SAVINGS!
Wondering what to wear for Regionals? We've solved that challenge with the AMAZING TIE-DYED shirt with NH-DI Naturally on the front.
You can even have YOUR TEAM NAME on the shirt as well!.
Click the image above to see 10 more reasons you must have the shirt!
Download the order form for this shirt |
Graduate's Creativity Tassel
Graduating this year? Nothing says IDODI like the Class of 2009 Creativity Tassel! It is similar to the tassel below. CLICK HERE FOR THE DETAILS!
Instant Combustion; Improv & Skills Training
Some 350 students from around the state joined NH-DI alum, the NH-DI Board and State Challenge Masters for the annual Instant Combustion and Improv Skills workshop at the University of New Hampshire on January 10th.
Special thanks to the great people at UNH for helping us!
More photos will be posted this weekend!
We are testing new photo options. You can even purchase photos on the site and it helps New Hampshire Destination ImagiNation! Write Wayne.kurtzman [at} nh-di [dot] org |
This Saturday, January 10th
Instant Combustion and Improv Workshop
(While Team Managers Meet with Challenge Masters)
NH-DI alum with the team of NH-DI Board and State Challenge Masters have an OUTSTANDING day of training for you at the University of New Hampshire on Saturday, January 10. [Click for DIrections and UNH Maps]
While team members learn different strategies for both their Instant Challenges and Team Challenges, Team Managers can ask specific questions of the State Challenge Masters for their team's Challenge!
Note: There will be no food concessions scheduled to be open in the MUB at UNH, so feel free to bring snacks to have during the 10-minutes between sessions.
We're proud to say the alum have taken an expanded role in creating and developing this year's program!
We are thinking about January Team Training & Summer's Camp Gottalikachallenge!
Sure, there is appraiser training in January and February (and each team must provide an apprasier to be trained), and there is Team Member training at UNH in January... but how about the summer when the weather is warm (and the power is on)?
New info on Camp Gottalikachallenge with a new location is NOW POSTED.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS can come back to camp with the new Gotta Camp for 10th-12th graders ONLY! We heard you wanted it, so here it is!
CLICK FOR DETAILS
Fun For You; Effective for Your Team
All New Sessions... Read on...
New and returning team managers alike will get a lot out of the new
Team Manager Cafe on Saturday December 6 at Pennichuck Middle School in Nashua. This training allows you to focus on the type of training that will help your team most! And you get to share experiences with other team managers!
If you are a new Team Manager and missed the New TM training, this is your chance to catch it! If you did make the new Team Manager Training, here is your chance to expand on it. A lot of these techniques also have applications for the business world as well!
[Click for details] [ Click to Register]
Next: All Team Manager Training Dec. 6 - Nashua
Creativity and innovation can drive careers – but only if they can be applied. Over 50 new Team Managers were trained Saturday in Hooksett on how to facilitate student teams to drive teamwork, creativity and problem-solving methods to deliver tangible results. These volunteer parents and educators will be working with one of several hundred teams of students in New Hampshire Destination ImagiNation programs (NH-DI).
Click for Photos from This Team Manager Training
The training at Hooksett Memorial School will allow over 350 new students on 50 teams to be part of the competitions where students blend creativity, innovation and search with core school subjects and the arts.
Destination ImagiNation is the World’s largest teamwork, creativity and problem-solving program has over 300,000 student team members in over 40 countries and all 50 states. The program is unique in that is the ultimate “kids hands-on; adults hands-off” program, as the Team Manager may help facilitate the team, but cannot give direction to solving the complex Challenges that the team will use in competition, which begin in March.
NEXT TRAINING:
New and returning team managers alike will get a lot out of the new
Team Manager Cafe on Saturday December 6 at Pennichuck Middle School in Nashua. This training allows you to focus on the type of training that will help your team most! And you get to share experiences with other team managers!
[Click for details]
New Team Manager Training SATURDAY!
What should you expect at Regionals and how do you get the team to work together to get there?
Find out at the New Team Manager Training scheduled for this Saturday, November 15th in Memorial School in Hooksett. [Click for details]. Rules and Challenge information as well as how to get the team working together are covered.
New and returning team managers alike will get a lot out of the new
Team Manager Cafe on Saturday December 6 at Pennichuck Middle School in Nashua. This training allows you to focus on the type of training that will help your team most! And you get to share experiences with other team managers!
[Click for details]
NOTE: Both of these events are fun and functional for the attendees. You are under no obligation to tell the team members how much fun you had, regardless what the team tells you.
Creativity! Teamwork! Problem Solving!
Destination ImagiNation is a non-profit organization that features kid-powered challenges to teach the building blocks of innovation: Creativity, Teamwork and Problem Solving!
Most important, DI is fun!
There are ALL TYPE OF NEW DOCUMENTS IN THE Important Paper Library!
A Challenge with a Social Outcome!
This season, the Destination ImagiNation projectOUTREACH Challenge invites teams to “Take Charge!” Teams of middle school, high school, and university-aged students will seek to increase their peers’ physical and mental health by rallying them to eat better and become more physically active.
They will design projects that mobilize their peers to take action and increase the in-school availability and consumption of the Four Food Groups: low-fat & fat-free milk and milk products, vegetables, fruits, whole grains.
To execute projects successfully, teams must manage their issue-based initiatives and track their progress and results using qualitative and quantitative data. projectOUTREACH teams will demonstrate and illustrate their process and results during the tournament phase of the project, which involves a Presentation, Exhibit, Portfolio, and problem-solving Simulation to be evaluated by Appraisers at NH-DI Affiliate Tournament.
Successful teams will advance to Destination ImagiNation Global Finals.
Click for more information on projectOUTREACH! (Including possible free memberships!)
Thank you for two amazing camps!
Click to see pix from Camp Gottalikachallenge at:
BREWSTER ACADEMY | CAMP CONISTON
Camp GottalikaChallenge Wk 1 Rockin!
We've started the first camp - and our 15th year of creativity summer camp along the lakes of Camp GottalikaChallenge! NHICC's summer camps is one of the nation's first creativity camps, and now there are limited slots at both sessions.
We are hoping to have some of this weeks photos posted this weekend, or at the end of both camp sessions.
It's like a whole year of creative problem solving in a week!
[Click for More details]
State Finals!!!
Who will represent New Hampshire at Destination ImagiNation Global Finals in May? It comes down to the NH-DI State Creativity Finals on Saturday, March 29th at Timberlane Regional High School in Plaistow!
State Finals last year
Amazing Solutions;
State Finals Teams Chosen!
Week two of New Hampshire Destination ImagiNation creativity Regional competitions are in the book. But what a book: Amazing solutions to complex challenges that bridged everything from international studies to the arts, technical, mechanical and architectural design and so much more.
Most important, these team members DID IT THEMSELVES!
CONGRATULATIONS on a GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT!
Results and photos are posted on our Tournaments page!
(More photos from both are coming!)
Starting Saturday in Tilton and Swanzey, the first of 2,300 of New Hampshire most creative kids show their results to complex challenges that range from architecture and vehicles to the arts and improv. These may look like skits, but are really answers to complex Challenges. [Read the HOW TO WATCH A DI CHALLENGE document].
TEAMS:
A few important items to remember:
> Team Managers: Be sure to read the Regional Survival Guide and fill out the forms needed for the day.
> Volunteers. Make sure your volunteer checks in at your Regional's information table.
> Reread the Rules of the Road and have it with you!
> Tournament Schedules are DIrections are/will be posted on the Tournament Page. Check for updates on that page. These are TENTATIVE SCHEDULES. The only final schedule is available at the meet!
> How to Watch a Destination ImagiNation Challenge is great for parents and team members to see where the points are. It also explains what you've been doing all year.
Again this year at our NH Destination ImagiNation meet, we are including a Community Service Awareness Project. This project is to recognize (and address) some of the region’s need for food.
We are asking that all team members and supporters bring along a canned good as a freewill donation. All donations will go to a local provider or the statewide food bank of New Hampshire ( such organizations service many of the area food banks and soup kitchens).
The collected foods will help those in all areas of the state who are hungry, homeless or in need.
We hope our donations will make a DIfference in the lives of those less fortunate than we are.
Cans will be collected at a specified location at your Regional.
Please bring in your can-tribution in the morning!
At January's Appraiser training, we talked with Appraiser Dan, one of our Instant Challenge State Challenge Masters for Instant Challenge. He shared some great Instant Challenge advice for teams. [Click for the Podcast page].
*** Last Days***
This year's t-shirt is BRILLIANT! Getting the T-shirts NOW instead of waiting for the price to go up is also BRILLIANT! - Just like your team!
Order them now and you can even add YOUR TEAM's name to the back of the shirt!
At January's Appraiser training, we talked with Appraiser Dan, one of our Instant Challenge State Challenge Masters for Instant Challenge. He shared some great Instant Challenge advice for teams. [Click for the Podcast page].
The NH Destination ImagiNation scholarship deadline has been extended to February 29th. Get the details by clicking here!
NH-DI has now trained over 350 appraisers - enough to appraise the teamwork, creativity and innovation of the 2,300+ students in New Hampshire Destination ImagiNation this year. They will join the over 400,000 students in over 40 countries that participate in the creative problem solving program.
Photo Album posted from this training session;
Coming Up: PODCAST for teams from appraiser training featuring one of our Instant Challenge Appraisers with tips on IC!
This year's t-shirt is BRILLIANT! Getting the T-shirts NOW instead of waiting for the price to go up is also BRILLIANT! - Just like your team!
Order them now and you can even add YOUR TEAM's name to the back of the shirt!
Amazing Things...
100 New Team Managers Trained to
Let Kids Make Themselves Amazing!
Teaching adults to channel kids’ creativity is hard. Teaching kids to solve challenges that include the arts, international studies, technical, mechanical or architectural elements – and having a hands off approach is even harder. Over 100 Destination ImagiNation team managers were going through that training Saturday at Bow Middle School.
These adults will facilitate teams of up to seven students from kindergarten through 12th grade. In all, some 2,300 New Hampshire students from nearly 200 schools and community organizations will join the over 250,000 students in more than 50 countries and all 50 states in solving Destination ImagiNation team challenges.
Destination ImagiNation, or DI as many kids call it, is unique in that is the ultimate “kids hands-on; adults hands-off” program. The Team Manager may help facilitate the team, but cannot give direction to solving the complex Challenges that the team will use in competition, which begin in March.
Deadline for Regionals Fees; Appraiser
Tuesday, December 18th is the deadline to pay Regional team fees and to notify us of who your appraiser will be. Additional questions, please contact the NH-DI office at 603-868-2140.
100 New Team Managers Trained to
Let Kids Make Themselves Amazing!
Teaching adults to channel kids’ creativity is hard. Teaching kids to solve challenges that include the arts, international studies, technical, mechanical or architectural elements – and having a hands off approach is even harder. Over 100 Destination ImagiNation team managers were going through that training Saturday at Bow Middle School.
These adults will facilitate teams of up to seven students from kindergarten through 12th grade. In all, some 2,300 New Hampshire students from nearly 200 schools and community organizations will join the over 250,000 students in more than 50 countries and all 50 states in solving Destination ImagiNation team challenges.
Destination ImagiNation, or DI as many kids call it, is unique in that is the ultimate “kids hands-on; adults hands-off” program. The Team Manager may help facilitate the team, but cannot give direction to solving the complex Challenges that the team will use in competition, which begin in March.
New and Experienced Team Manager Training - Dec 1
Some 50 new Team Managers - adults who will faciliate the creative problem solving of Destination ImagiNation teams - were trained recently at Nashua's Pennichuck Middle School. Next up - the December 1st training for new and experienced Team Managers [more details]. Even if you were at the New and FUN TM training, this training is new with expanded areas so you can target the areas you and your team need most.
One of the best parts: speaking with the community of Team Managers that make DI FUN for everyone!
It will be Saturday, December 1st at Bow Memorial School.
Click here for training registration.
OTHER NEW TRAINING DATES HAVE BEEN POSTED. See the flyers in the Team Manager section of the Important Paper Library.
... and the New Challenges Are Out!
Last season, over 300 teams - more than 2,300 students from around the state made this year's New Hampshire Destination ImagiNation one of the most fun in recent memory.
This is our 27th year of offering creative problem solving opportunities to the students of New Hampshire! Are you ready to join our exciting program where success is measured by teamwork, learning experiences and unassisted solutions and where teamsput effort, creativity and FUN ahead of winning? We look forward to you and your school /teams returning or becoming a NEW member of NH Destination ImagiNation this season!
We have 5 tournements like this last year! Were you there?
Click for the preview of the 2007-2008 challenges.
Full challenges are available to registered teams!
Last season, over 300 teams - more than 2,300 students from around the state made this year's New Hampshire Destination ImagiNation one of the most fun in recent memory. The level of teamwork, innovation and creativity applied to the complex challenges only by student team members (KIDS!) made these regionals outstanding for everyone!
We have 5 tournements like this last year! Were you there?
Click for the preview of the 2007-2008 challenges.
Full challenges become available to registered teams on Sept. 1!
Thank you for an AMAZING 14 Year of
CAMP GOTTALIKACHALLENGE!
The Camp Photo Albums are now POSTED!
The 14th year of Camp Gottalikachallenge is now done, and WOW - do we have a surprise for you as we go into year 15 of one of the nation's first creativity camp! Keep tuned!
Photos are posted from the Camp and the Photo Album Pages
It's Nothing New to DI Teams!
While televised concerts bring over 2-billion people together to raise awareness about environmental concerns, cost conscious innovation is nothing new to of Destination ImagiNation teams. They have long been using recycled items in their solutions.
Strafford Middle School at regionals in Tilton. The team advanced to 3rd place in the world at Global Finals with a virtually totally recycled solution.
It's not just innovation, but innovation on a budget. When these teams compete, they not only have to meet the scoring areas that tax their creativity, teamwork and innovation skills, but keep to strict cost limits, always under $175. This levels the financial playing field between all teams - making the same solution within their reach.
New Hampshire teams recycle technology and embed them in solutions. One team built a hovercraft from junk parts. Another a remote controlled robot. Even sculptures. This is true with anything and everything - even milk cartons to make a dress. Above, the 3rd place Global Finals winning team from Strafford MS.
And most important - they did it themselves.