Cherry Hill, NJ – December 10, 2009 – Destination ImagiNation, Inc.® is excited to announce the winner of its Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Challenge. The winning game was selected for its blend of fun, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.
The DI Puzzlers from Orchard Park Middle School in New York created the board game "Destination Tennessee"—a mash-up of Monopoly®, charades and Destination ImagiNation Instant Challenges. The team wanted to make the game interactive and exciting, but also educational.
“The team added a global flair to the game by including multicultural game tokens and fun facts about each of the 50 states,” said Trish Jemiolo, DI Puzzlers’ Team Manager. “The goals were to share the Destination ImagiNation experience while inspiring others to be creative and demonstrate that given the right tools, anyone can produce a product like a board game from scratch.”
Destination ImagiNation will work with the DI Puzzlers to create the final version of the board game to be debuted at the 2010 Global Finals to an audience of more than 16,000 potential buyers.
“We are extremely excited a Destination ImagiNation team was selected as the winner the Creative Spark Challenge,” said Chuck Cadle, CEO of Destination ImagiNation, Inc. “We know DI participants are creative at heart, but we are proud that they can embody business qualities to create a product that has mass appeal.”
You can view the winning video submission at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exrfW-yIdJ8
About Destination ImagiNation
Destination ImagiNation, Inc. is an extraordinary non-profit organization that provides two educational programs for students to learn and experience creativity, teamwork and problem solving. Every year, we reach 100,000 students across the U.S. and in more than 30 countries. Destination ImagiNation, our core program, is an exhilarating after-school activity in which students work in teams to solve mind-bending Challenges and present their solutions at Tournaments. In our Destination ImagiNation 4-Life program, we design and implement cause-based programming for client organizations to reach target audiences in a powerful way. Destination ImagiNation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with 1.3 million alumni and a global network of 35,000 volunteers. Visit www.IDODI.org for more information.
About Global Entrepreneurship Week
With the goal to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity, Global Entrepreneurship Week will encourage youth to think big, turn their ideas into reality, and make their mark. From Nov. 16-22, 2009, millions of young people around the world will join a growing movement to generate new ideas and seek better ways of doing things. Tens of thousands of activities are being planned in dozens of countries. Global Entrepreneurship Week is founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Make Your Mark campaign. For more information, visit www.unleashingideas.org, and follow @unleashingideas on Twitter.
Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare. Through its research and other initiatives, the Kauffman Foundation aims to open young people's eyes to the possibility of entrepreneurship, promote entrepreneurship education, raise awareness of entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and find alternative pathways for the commercialization of new knowledge and technologies. It also works to prepare students to be innovators, entrepreneurs and skilled workers in the 21st century economy through initiatives designed to improve learning in math, engineering, science and technology. Founded by late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is based in Kansas City, Mo. and has approximately $2 billion in assets. For more information, visit www.kauffman.org, and follow @kauffmanfdn on Twitter.
Make Your Mark
Make Your Mark is the campaign to give young people in the UK the confidence, skills and ambition to be enterprising - to have ideas and make them happen. Run by Enterprise Insight, which was founded by the four leading UK business membership organisations – the British Chambers of Commerce, the CBI, the Federation of Small Businesses and the Institute of Directors. Their Director-Generals sit on our board, which is chaired by entrepreneur Peter Jones, from BBC’s Dragon’s Den. It is supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and endorsed by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. www.makeyourmark.org.uk
