Adults Can Enroll Youth Now in Destination ImagiNation
Cherry Hill, NJ — October 10, 2011 — The call is going out to parents all over the world: sign up your kids for the Destination ImagiNation program! By participating in the team-based competitive program, children can achieve lifelong benefits, improve self confidence, and learn creative problem solving and critical thinking.
Destination ImagiNation (DI) is an after-school program that is easy and fun, and it teaches children the creative process through its hands-on educational Challenges. The DI program teaches teamwork, problem solving, and critical and creative thinking. Teaching students these skills is currently being promoted as a strategy for schools to reduce bullying, intimidation and harassment.
In the program, children experience the thrill of applying their creativity to solve problems. They also work with team members to gain knowledge and experience in a wide variety of subjects. Participants learn to be innovative, creative, self-confident and collaborative -- traits that employers say they are looking for in the workforce of the future.
Parents, educators, scout leaders, youth club administrators, church members, business executives and others who want to help young people develop their creative and critical thinking skills can visit www.startateam.org to get started today.
Destination ImagiNation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that involves more than 100,000 youth on 15,000 teams in the U.S., Canada and 16 countries around the world annually. Its critical thinking and creative problem solving tournaments culminate in the annual Global Finals each May. All Destination ImagiNation Challenges connect to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and National Educational Standards.
