Destination ImagiNation congratulates all the students who participated in the Nashua tournament. We think you are all winners!

The first 5 place teams are listed in place order,the remaining teams are listed alphabetically. Teams emphasized as such are going on to the next level of competition.

Teams emphasized as such and have the letter 'G' in the Rank column indicates the team will be advancing to the Destination ImagiNation Global Finals at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville from May 20-23, 2009. "GT" indicates a tie AND the teams will be advancing to Global Finals.

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PHOTOS: Opening Ceremony | Team New Hampshire Photos (Advancing Teams)

 

 

 

Special Awards

 

The DaVincI Award for Outstanding Creativity.
This award is given for having a unique approach to a solution, for risk taking, and/or for outstanding creativity (not skill or talent).

Londonderry High School
130-91480
ViDIo Lit Hits
Secondary Level

We can’t get the original and show stopping dance moves and hilariously humorous lyrics out of our heads. Their flexible thinking resulted in the risk taking interpretations, which the team then brought to life using numerous and amazing technical refinements.

Conant High School
130-95267
Instinct Messaging
Secondary Level

This team’s fluid creativity was evident throughout their performance from the moment a set piece rolled onto the stage and popped open to reveal a richly detailed coral reef. The team’s costumes were a part of the set, exhibiting the team’s many varied creative uses for floral foam.

 

The Renaissance Award for outstanding Design, Engineering, Execution, Performance

This award is given for outstanding skill in the areas of engineering, design, or performance.

 

Concord High School
130-20155
Instinct Messaging
Secondary Level

This beautifully refined performance impressed us with it’s attention to detail in the papier mache ant costumes and it entertained us with original, highly integrated songs and music throughout the performance.

Chester Academy
130-15393
Instinct Messaging
Elementary Level

We were transported to the Canadian woods by a meticulously detailed, artfully depicted wolf pack as the team’s extensive research came to life on the stage.

Lincoln Akerman School
130-68770
Instinct Messaging
Elementary Level

 

There was an impressive level of scholarship exhibited that was unusual for this age group as this team documented an environment with detailed mixed media backdrops depicting where the river and ocean meet and the pink dolphins live.

Cooperative Middle School Stratham
130-76246
Operation Cooperation
Middle Level

 

It is rare to find a vehicle that was truly built from scratch in any performance, but this team showed us two. An unmanned vehicle with a complex mechanism. And a manned vehicle which was equally astounding as it had an unorthodox lever and tiller steering mechanism and an air powered cannon, with a backup air charge for a second shot.

 

Lincoln Street School
130-61093
ViDIo Lit Hits
Elementary Level

Have you ever seen a snowman fly? Ever wondered what they do at night? Well, this team certainly answered these questions with an elegantly engineered mechanism of switches that set off catapults as well as a surprisingly sophisticated performance by a talented young guitarists which enhanced the overall presentation and made it memorable.

Jaffrey Rindge Middle School
130-51699
Instinct Messaging
Middle Level

In a triumph of technical design this team’s solution included marionettes that were controlled by a piano keyboard like mechanism. Their effective attention to detail included use of lighting to show realistic changes of color as a coral reef dies and illustrated fish communication .

 

Spirit of Discovery and ImagiNation Award (Spirit of DI)

This award is given in recognition of those who act as superior role models in the areas of spirit,
sportsmanship and volunteerism.

 

Pelham Elementary
130-09417
Instant Challenge
Elementary Level

In this challenge individual and team elements were required. This team exemplified inclusion and mutual support of all, as they stopped solving the challenge in order to solve teamwork issues first and only when all members had been included did they proceed to create their exceptional solution.

 

Timberlane Regional High School
130-07122
Instant Challenge
Secondary Level

This well oiled machine wowed the appraisers and left them screaming for more. They had everything the appraisers wanted to see in teamwork and more. We were enraptured by their enthusiasm like a fly stuck to duct tape. Got teamwork?