WELCOME TODESTINATION IMAGINATION!

AGENDA

Sit back and enjoy the ride.

DESTINATION IMAGINATION

Students learn Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) skills

Brainstorming & Divergent Thinking Exploring Open-Ended Questions (no single right answer) Improvisation

Students develop skills: Teamwork/Communication Planning/Budgeting Research & Experimentation Presentation /Organization

Fills the gap between what students learn in school and skills they need in the workplace

Colleges & employers are looking for students who have developed these skills

Provides a supportive environment in which all ideas are team-generated Kids have ownership of solution They make mistakes & learn from them Students learn strategic life skills

Adult team managers are only there to manage details of the team – adults do not tell students what to do, how to do it or when to do it

Team’s solution is generated without interference

WHAT BUSINESS IS SAYING…

“Destination ImagiNation participants STAND OUT among our new employees.

Their presence, confidence and ability to lead put them YEARS AHEAD of their age and

experience.

Destination ImagiNation is making a difference

in the high-tech future on a global basis.”

--Roger Garriock, IBM Canada director of e-commerce development

Destination ImagiNation’s outstanding participants

DESTINATION IMAGINATIONCOMPONENTS

Central Challenge

Instant Challenge

Team Choice Elements

THE DI PROGRAM HAS TWO COMPONENTS

1."Instant Challenges" Teams must solve a “surprise” challenge in a short time frame. Points are awarded for successful completion, novel solutions and teamwork. Kids learn creativity skills, divergent and convergent thinking, risk taking, time awareness, cooperation and have FUN!

2."Team Challenges”Teams use research, art, technology, performance, imagination and more as they tackle one of the5 Team Challenges, open to all levels. The solution can take from several weeks to several months to developand refine. Scoring is definedin the challenge and includes addition of animprov item and side trips (special item/skills team

defines).

Destination ImagiNation challenges students in many different ways

2013-2014 CENTRAL CHALLENGES Technical Scientific Structural Fine Arts Improvisational Service Learning Early Learning

TEAM CHOICE ELEMENTS

A Team Choice Element is an extra excursion that adds to the enjoyment, excitement, understanding,

and “wow” factor of the Team Challenge!

TEAM CHOICE ELEMENTS

These are the rules about Side Trips:

Teams must showcase two DIFFERENT Specialties

A TCE cannot be an item required in the Central Challenge

A TCE cannot be part of an item that is already being scored

More than one TCE CAN be demonstrated at the same time

THE CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING(CPS) PROCESS

Creative Thinking Phase Generation of Options

Critical Thinking Phase Focusing/Evaluating of Options

HEADLINES!

3 minutes Each team member - Find 1-5 words that

could make a headline that is related in some way to being a team manager

Share your headline CREATIVITY is in all of us!

AFTER THE CHALLENGE

What does a good team sound like? Did anyone on your team come up

with a good idea that you would never have thought of yourself?

Did your team include people with different personality “styles”?

Did any of you feel sort of apprehensive or uncomfortable in the first moments of brainstorming?

RULES OF BRAINSTORMING

Rule 1: Withhold Judgment of Ideas Allow students to conceptualize freely. All ideas

are “good” ideas. Rule 2: Encourage WILD ideas!

Encourage team members to be imaginative! Try to make each other

laugh!

BRAINSTORMING

Rule 3: Quantity counts! Encourage the team to push itself to come up

with ideas until it runs dry. Encourage team members to not accept the first few ideas.

Rule 4: Piggyback on the ideas of others! Encourage team members to use “SCAMPER”

and put a new twist on ideas already given

CREATIVITY IS INFLUENCED BY:

FLUENCY The ability to generate a great number of ideas

FLEXIBILITY The skill that allows us to produce a variety of

ideas ORIGINALITY

The talent to think of unusual ideas ELABORATION

The process of filling in all the details EVALUATION

The process that allows us to select, test, and revise ideas

THE SCAMPER TECHNIQUE FOR BRAINSTORMING

S Substitute

C Combine

A Adapt

M Modify, Magnify, Minify

P Put to Other Uses

E Eliminate

R Reverse

A-LO-U

A Advantages

Lo Limitations and How to Overcome Them

U Unique Features (Wouldn’t it be nice if…?)

A-LO-U TOOL ACTIVITYFOR FOCUSING OPTIONS

Sample Option: Our team will use only recycled materials in its solution.

Advantages

Limitations and how to overcome them

Unique Features or Potentials

INTERFERENCE

As stated in the Rules of the Road, the Team Challenge solution is owned and operated by the team!

Only team members may contribute ideas and create the Team Challenge and Team Choice Elements.

Help from non-team members, including Team Managers, is called Interference.

SOLVING THE CENTRAL CHALLENGEREAD

Rules of the Road

The Central Challenge

The Team Manager’s Guide

TEAMWORK

ANDTIME MANAGEMENT

CHARACTERISTICS OF GROUPS THAT WORK

Members trust each other Goals are clear and determined by the

members Members feel as if they belong There is willingness to hear new ideas and

suggestions Members identify with each other’s

experiences

GROUPS THAT WORK

Conflict is recognized and discussed with the intent to resolve it

Members accept responsibility for group functions Communication between members is clear and

direct Members use each other a a resource and as

support Members define and understand ground rules

TEAM BUILDING IDEAS

Help each other be right - not wrong

Look for ways to make new ideas work - not reasons why they won’t work

Help each other achieve and take pride in each other’s progress and growth

Try to maintain a positive mental attitude

Do everything with enthusiasm - it is contagious

Whatever you want - give it away!

Have FUN!

TEAM MEMBERS NEED TIME TO:

Get to know each other

Trust each other

Feel they belong

Respect each other’s strengths and weaknesses

Learn to make decisions together

Accept that all their ideas will not the final ones used

Start to take pride in the team’s solution

DON’T PANIC…. YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

Mariloly Gómez Obaya Cel Phone: (81) 80 10 88 76

E-mail: destinationimagination@nezaldi.edu.mx

-Albert Einstein

Destination ImagiNation develops the most important skill in life

“Imagination

is more important

than

knowledge”.

Knowledge is limited.