Destination ImagiNation® Global Finals!
See You Next Year!
New Challenge Summaries Posted!
Record Teams Globals: A Positive Place With Amazing Creativity!
1,037 teams came from around the World. Their solutions ranged from the amazing to the increDIble. There were pins, shared, new friends made, and people learned about themselves and others.
Destination ImagiNation Global Finals, thanks to the National Dairy Council, 3M and our other amazing Sponsors, is the largest celebration and competition of creativity in the World. It is a positive event where creativity, innovation and results is the norm.
The Mysterious Power Cube at Closing Ceremony!
And teams loved it!
Once cloaked in mystery, the Power Cube will was unveiled at Closing Ceremony. This 15-by-15-by-15 foot cube is part of the finals for the National Dairy Council’s Nutrition & Fitness Challenges. All we can divulge is that it involves a gi-normous number of 3-by-3 cardboard boxes.
The other main ingredient of the Power Cube is the printed graphics that cover all six sides of each box. That’s 750 sides by 9 square feet per side, which is almost 7,000 square feet! After doing the math, DI looked for a company to help with this project.
Avery Graphics, makers of mailing labels and other self-stick materials, stepped up to the plate and donated the super wide self-adhesive vinyl to print and then adhere to the sides of the boxes.
“The company supported DI’s Power Cube project not only because it was a worthy cause, but also because it was quite an interesting use of Avery’s products,” says Tom Durner, Avery Dennison’s manager of Strategic Alliances.
Avery and Durner also recognize the value of what DI teaches its student participants. “One cannot ignore the fact that the very skills that Destination ImagiNation cultivates in their members are utilized by businesses everywhere,” Durner says. “So in essence our support is helping to develop tomorrow’s business leaders.”
MOOOO...
National Dairy Council president Tom Camerlo reacts to a now traditional greeting of MOOOs at closing ceremony of Global Finals.
Great Events!
Below are the views of World's Fair Park during the Club DI, the Class of 2008 that walked down the aisle with their creative peers, and
I DO DI-IDOL. More photos will be posted soon!
Video of the Out-of-the-Box Costume Ball!
The sponsor expo and pin trading areas are busy, and teams are having a great time! Many are taking part in the Nutrition and Fitness Challenge of the National Dairy Council, while others can't help but have their photo taken with Elsie the cow from Borden!
The above is a 360-degree panorama of Opening Ceremony.
This requires Apple Quicktime download if you do not have one.
WELCOME: US Deputy Secretary of Education Raymond Simon
We are pleased to welcome U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Raymond Simon to Global Finals. Below, Deputy Secretary Simon listens to participants about the benefits of being a part of the World's largest creative problem solving organization.
Camps: Tuning Up Creativity
Some teams have opted to take part in creativity camps at Global Finals. The Rev It Up photo albums has been posted in the
Photos -> Events section of the web site.
WE MADE A DIFFERENCE and FED MANY!
Destination ImagiNation Project Outreach teamed with the Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee to feed a lot of people. Thank you for your help!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!
