Mission and History
Our Vision
To be the global leader in teaching the creative process from imagination to innovation.
Mission
To develop opportunities that inspire the global community of learners to utilize diverse approaches in applying 21st century skills and creativity.
The Destination Imagination program encourages teams of learners to have fun, take risks, focus and frame challenges while incorporating STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), the arts, and service learning. Our participants learn patience, flexibility, persistence, ethics, respect for others and their ideas, and the collaborative problem solving process. Teams may showcase their solutions at tournaments.
HistoryThe Destination Imagination program has been offered in Alberta since 2010 when the Grande Prairie Public and Grande Prairie Catholic School Districts with financial support from the Centre for Research and Innovation brought this international creative problem solving program in as part of enrichment programming to four local school districts.
Over the past six years we have been able to fund teams and organize tournaments for more than 1600 students (300+ teams) to compete at local, provincial, national and international competitions. We have had outstanding community support with teachers, parents and community members taking on the volunteer roles of managing teams and appraising solutions at tournament. In addition to this, fundraising efforts have allowed us to take 8 teams to provincial tournaments, 5 teams to national tournaments and 12 teams to Global Finals in Knoxville, TN. One of our local teams reached #1 position in the world in their division on their instant challenge.
Our goal is to support school districts/communities across the province in bringing Destination Imagination to their region. With funding from Alberta Lotteries CIP grant, we are able to offer outreach and share the expertise we have gained over the past number of years to those who are interested.
Our Vision
To be the global leader in teaching the creative process from imagination to innovation.
Mission
To develop opportunities that inspire the global community of learners to utilize diverse approaches in applying 21st century skills and creativity.
The Destination Imagination program encourages teams of learners to have fun, take risks, focus and frame challenges while incorporating STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), the arts, and service learning. Our participants learn patience, flexibility, persistence, ethics, respect for others and their ideas, and the collaborative problem solving process. Teams may showcase their solutions at tournaments.
HistoryThe Destination Imagination program has been offered in Alberta since 2010 when the Grande Prairie Public and Grande Prairie Catholic School Districts with financial support from the Centre for Research and Innovation brought this international creative problem solving program in as part of enrichment programming to four local school districts.
Over the past six years we have been able to fund teams and organize tournaments for more than 1600 students (300+ teams) to compete at local, provincial, national and international competitions. We have had outstanding community support with teachers, parents and community members taking on the volunteer roles of managing teams and appraising solutions at tournament. In addition to this, fundraising efforts have allowed us to take 8 teams to provincial tournaments, 5 teams to national tournaments and 12 teams to Global Finals in Knoxville, TN. One of our local teams reached #1 position in the world in their division on their instant challenge.
Our goal is to support school districts/communities across the province in bringing Destination Imagination to their region. With funding from Alberta Lotteries CIP grant, we are able to offer outreach and share the expertise we have gained over the past number of years to those who are interested.
