A Destination ImagiNation Challenge is an open-ended exercise that prompts students to use creativity and teamwork to solve a problem.

The Destination Imagination program can be broken down into three main challenge categories: Team Challenges, Instant Challenges and the new Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenges.

Team Challenges

Team Challenges are designed to be open-ended and multidisciplinary. Teams spend several weeks or months working on the Team Challenge of their choice, and they present their solutions at Tournaments. Each of the six competitive Team Challenges has a different educational and creative focus:

• Challenge A: Technical Design
• Challenge B: Scientific Research
• Challenge C: Fine Arts
• Challenge D: Improvisation
• Challenge E: Structural Design
• projectOUTREACH: Community Service

Challenge Previews 2018-2019

Instant Challenges

Instant Challenges require teams to engage in quick, creative and critical thinking. At a tournament, a team will receive an Instant Challenge and the materials with which to solve it. The team members must think on their feet by applying appropriate skills to produce a solution in a period of just five to eight minutes.

In a world with growing cultural connections, increased levels and types of communication, and a new need for real-time teamwork and problem solving, the ability to solve problems quickly is becoming increasingly critical.

Instant Challenges are performance-based, task-based, or a combination of the two. Although each Instant Challenge has different requirements, all Instant Challenges reward teams for their teamwork and the creativity of their solutions. Instant Challenges are kept confidential through the day of the Tournament.