REDLANDS - An imaginative group of 10- and 11-year-olds are hoping to display their innovative thinking at an imagination- celebrating competition. The ScissorDroids, a group of seven Kimberly Elementary School fifth-graders, are hoping to travel to Knoxville, Tenn., to participate in Destination ImagiNation's Global Finals, scheduled for May 25 to 28.
CITdestination1P031410 Siara Ribas, left, and Mae Gosnell of Otisfield Elementary School brainstorm during their "Do or Di" improvisation skit at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School on Saturday. The 10-year-old fourth- graders had to decide whether the land-line telephone should survive during the Destination ImagiNation competition.
REDLANDS - An imaginative group of 10- and 11-year-olds are hoping to display their innovative thinking at an imagination- celebrating competition. The ScissorDroids, a group of seven Kimberly Elementary School fifth-graders, are hoping to travel to Knoxville, Tenn., to participate in Destination ImagiNation's Global Finals, scheduled for May 25 to 28.
ORONO - The students' challenge was to make a device that could fit into a 20-by-20-inch box and would be capable of placing and removing items from the top of an 8-foot tower. They also had to write and perform a skit to promote their tool. A group of Orono Middle School students, nicknamed the DI Challengers, decided to create a "disaster" at the Penobscot Narrows Bridge as their play. They designed an accordion-type tool to "save" people trapped in the observation tower and to remove cars stuck on the brokenspan.
Last Saturday, a local Destination Imagination team, DI've Got Talent, put on a successful talent show at Orchard Park Middle School. As loud cheers and clapping filled the auditorium, it was obvious everyone was having a great time. Destination Imagination is a nonprofit school organization that students get involved with to accomplish certain challenges. After being given a task, the teams go on to perform a skit, or show a presentation. They also perform an Instant Challenge -- the team has to perform on the spot.
They may be "hamsters," but they were the cavalry riding to the rescue for Family Service Association of Redlands on May 12. The postal carriers' food drive was held that day and the Family Service volunteers could have been totally overwhelmed, were it not for the seven 11-year-old middle school students and some parents who arrived in the nick of time to provide their service.
Miamisburg sent five teams to the Destination ImagiNation competition in Knoxville in late May and two of those teams took second and third place in their "challenge". Terry Skudlarek, who is gifted services coordinator for Miamisburg Schools, is also coordinator for the Destination ImagiNation teams.
Megan Dell and her teammates are always up for a challenge. As a member of the problem-solving program "Destination Imagination," the Old Mill Middle School South students must use their creativity and critical thinking skills to prepare solutions in only a few minutes. This week they will take their research skills and creativity to the top level when they compete in the Destination Imagination Global Finals Tournament in Knoxville, Tenn., for the title of world champions.
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