For Parents and Students (all grades K-8)
Wednesday, October 20, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Don Juan Avila Multi Purpose Room
Students who attend will have the opportunity to do a hands-on creative problem solving challenge!
Destination ImagiNation is in the vanguard with other thought-leaders who say we need to shift our educational and business focus toward process. Too often, our children are left with the idea that higher achievement simply means trying harder or working longer. However, success does not often stem from more work, but rather in changing tactics—in other words, working differently and more effectively. Dramatically different results can happen, but only if we focus on the nature of the process with which we approach and solve problems.
In the 21st century we will reach the greatest heights of achievement only by re-imagining our current approaches and processes. Destination ImagiNation participants learn to innovate solutions by taking unique approaches to problems. The processes and tools of Creative Problem Solving release them from the constraints, limitations and over-reliance on linear thinking to which they are bound. To meet the critical educational need to teach students how to be world-class innovators and critical thinkers, Destination ImagiNation provides a number of extraordinary “hands-on and minds-on” experiences that teach creativity, teamwork, and problem solving.
As the name suggests, the Destination ImagiNation experience returns students to an unfettered state where anything is possible. Our main program is a 5-month global problem solving tournament that begins with the fall school semester each year. Students form teams of up to seven members, and each team selects one of seven mind-bending Challenges created by Destination ImagiNation volunteers.
With the guidance of a parent or teacher as Team Manager, each team creates an action plan and works together for weeks or months to develop and create a solution to the Challenge’s proposed problem. From the U.S. to China, Poland, Columbia and Brazil, student creativity is unleashed in astonishing ways under the auspices of Destination ImagiNation.
For more information go to: www.californiacreativity.org or www.IdoDI.org (preview this year’s challenges) Destination ImagiNation is not sponsored by CUSD. Got questions? Contact: Rick Wojcicki (714) 715-3030.
