Press Center
Welcome to the New Hampshire Destination ImagiNation Press Center.
For more information, please contact Wayne Kurtzman for more information on NH-DI. He can be reached on Twitter at @NH_DI or by e-mail at wayne.kurtzman/at/nh-di.org.
Press Kit
2011-2012 NH Destination ImagiNation Press Kit | 601k PDF
An overview of the 31 year old NHICC and the NH-DI program we run for over 2,000 New Hampshire students from over 150 schools and community groups.
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Press Releases
01-03-12 Press Release: Saturday at UNH: Hundreds of Kids Learn Creative Problem Solving Skills
Over the past 31 years, New Hampshire Destination ImagiNation has generated over 100,000 alumni trained in the building blocks of innovation: creativity, problem solving and teamwork. On Saturday at the University of New Hampshire, they will be joined by several hundred students from around the state to learn a variety of skills to help them compete at Destination ImagiNation Creativity Tournaments in March.
10-29-11 NH Destination ImagiNation Trains New Volunteers to Facilitate Creativity, Collaboration, Teamwork
Empowering kids to use creativity to spur innovation is a key goal of Destination ImagiNation, a non-profit educational program. This weekend at Pembroke Academy, 30 new adult volunteer Team Managers from around the state, enough for 210 new students, were trained how to facilitate collaboration, teamwork, communication and creativity.
2010-2011
05-02-11 Team New Hampshire Meets Before Global Finals Events (This Friday)
In the fall, New Hampshire fielded over 300 creative problem solving teams from over 150 schools and community groups to compete in creative problem solving competitions. This Friday, the top 33 teams, “Team New Hampshire”, will take a break from their massive fundraising efforts to meet together for the first time…
05-01-11 Study: Destination ImagiNation Students Tops in Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
A comprehensive evaluation by researchers at the University of Virginia provides evidence that students participating in team-based problem solving competitions with Destination ImagiNation (DI) exhibit stronger skills than non-DI students in applying critical and creative thinking to reach innovative solutions to complicated challenges.
Destination ImagiNation is counting down to its final event called Global Finals, which will take place from May 25 – 28, 2011 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. At Global Finals, 14,000 participants from the U.S. and more than 30 countries will showcase their creative solutions to Destination ImagiNation Challenges – including 33 New Hampshire Teams.
04-02-11 Team New Hampshire Selected to Represent New Hampshire at Destination ImagiNation Global Finals!
How to Watch a 2011 Destination ImagiNation Challenge | PDF
03-27-11 NH’s Top Creative; Problem Solving Teams Compete for Global Recognition This Saturday in Nashua
02-19-11 150+ Volunteer Appraisers Trained to Judge Creative Solutions for 2,000 Creative Students
In less than a month, hundreds of Granite State creative problem solving teams will be showcasing their solutions to educational Challenges at Destination ImagiNation tournaments to be held around the state. Today at Londonderry High School, the final group of over 150 volunteer Appraisers was trained to appraise the solutions that are designed to build creativity, innovation and teamwork skills while incorporating core educational subjects…
02-16-11 Advisory: Over 150 Volunteers to Be Trained on Appraising Creative Problem-Solving Solutions (This is a rescheduled event from a snow-out).
02-Feb-11 ADVISORY: Over 150 Volunteers to Be Trained on Evaluating Creative Kids Solutions (Londonderry).
In less than 40 days, hundreds of creative problem solving teams from around the Granite State will compete with solutions that showcase their creativity, problem solving and teamwork skills in Destination ImagiNation competitions…
21-Nov-10 Learning To Make The Ordinary Extraordinary
Over 100 Team Managers, the adult facilitators of the educational non-profit Destination ImagiNation program were trained at Merrimiack Valley Middle School in Penacook on Saturday. Among the presenters were two NH-DI alumni who are both educators and members of a popular New Hampshire improv troupe.
20-Oct-10 Volunteers State-wide Trained To Unlock, Apply Creativity | HTML
Anyone can be creative, but the ability to leverage that creativity for tangible results frequently takes a facilitator. That is the role of the volunteer Team Managers in Destination ImagiNation. 25 of these volunteers, or enough for 175 new “DI” participants in schools across the state, were trained on Saturday at Pembroke Academy in Pembroke.
28-Oct-10 NH Destination ImagiNation Announces New Affiliate Director | HTML | PDF 144k
New Hampshire Destination ImagiNation (NH-DI), the state’s student creativity, teamwork and problem solving program is pleased to announce that is has selected a new affiliate director…
27-Oct-10 Press Advisory: New Team Manager Training: Learning To Create Creative Kids |PDF 103K
Destination ImagiNation develops creativity, teamwork and problem solving skills in students across New Hampshire. This Saturday at Pembroke Academy, the process of how to facilitate these skills …