How to get started?

All members of University Level teams (Team Challenge or DI eXtreme) must be currently enrolled full-time students from a college, university, trade, technical school or military, or high school seniors who are bound for higher education (college, university, trade school, military). Teams may be comprised of students from different colleges, universities, trade, and/or technical schools. When registering for a membership, UL teams must select a Team Name and identify one Affiliate to which they will "belong" for registration purposes. All members of DI eXtreme teams MUST be age 18 or older.

 Questions? Please refer to  What is University Level DI? - which contains basic program info about the level.

• First thing to do, then, is to decide you WANT  to do DI at the university level!
• Second thing is to decide whether you want to do a regular Team Challenge  or whether you want to do DI Extreme ™.
• Third, decide on who will be on the team.
• Will it be a team comprised of students that know each other at one college or school, or a mixed group of students that know each other from various schools but all live in the same city, town or state, or a "virtual team" of students that meet "virtually" (meet and work on the internet or some other electronic medium) and don't actually meet face to face until the Global Tournament. (an account of such a team can be found at Hairylunch's Creative Problem Solving Page- An account of the experience of doing a virtual team (1999)  Ernie Chang )
• Decide on a "Team Name" and identify one Affiliate that your team will "belong" for registration purposes. 
• Figure out the financing required to get the solution(s) accomplished, and to get to Globals in Tennessee.

Those are the essentials. Each team will have other issues to consider and decision to make. Remember to talk to the Coordinator if you have any questions, or feel free to write in to the collegedi@yahoogroups.com where more experienced team members may take a shot at responding to your requests.

Getting started- it's easy! 

More!

Destination ImagiNation Affiliate Web Pages

REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS: How Destination ImagiNation is Influencing Creativity In The Corporate World  Document created by Thomas M. Mauro  Great article laying out why DI skills are so valued by the corporate and business worlds.

Destination ImagiNation FAQ's  If you have ever been  asked to describe DI to a parent, an administrator or an newspaper reporter- you will appreciate how helpful these FAQ's are. On this page you will find descriptions of DI in 25,30,60,80,108,140,256,and 339 word formats- among other things! 

Team Resources    Destination Imagination® Resource WIKI -sponsored by DISC,  Destination ImagiNation Support Committee.

Scholarships!

To be eligible, Scholarship Applicants must:

• Be pursuing a post High School degree in a Trade School, Community College or University in the 2009-2010 School year.
• Must have participated in at least one of the creative problem solving programs that Destination ImagiNation has sponsored- as a team member and/or in a volunteer capacity.
• If applying while pursuing Post High School graduation, the applicant should be actively continuing his or her involvement in Destination ImagiNation in some capacity – either as a team member or as a volunteer. See the website for further details.

More- How to Grow Your DI Program (resources courtesy of MN DI)

IMPORTANT!!!  Join collegedi@yahoogroups.com!   Share information, questions or concerns with college students from all over the world involved in Destination ImagiNation™.
Participants in Destination ImagiNation^® have long used the Internet to form online communities. Through email and web sites, people in all the different roles in the organization and from around the world  have found new friends and helping hands as they work towards common goals. Remember to check on the affiliate web for the state your are in--many of them now have their own list groups for participants and supporters.