Nearly 1,100 students showcase creative problem-solving skills at the Destination Imagination Regional Competition

You didn’t have to look hard to find inspiration in everything at the Regional Destination Imagination Competition.

Dallas ISD students showed up to compete in a sea of vibrant homemade costumes and props. Colorful characters collided with colossal set pieces made of multi-colored boxes, duct tape, and flowy fabric. Everything from tin foil turtle shells and wacky hats to costumes that lit up like Christmas trees was on display at the competition.

This was the scene at the regional competition Saturday, February 12, at Skyline High School as 96 Dallas ISD schools and 164 teams of students gathered to compete and showcase unique solutions to challenges in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math.

Of those schools competing, 18 Dallas ISD teams will be advancing to the State Destination Imagination Competition at the University of Texas at Arlington in March.

Destination Imagination is a project-based and team-focused competition that teaches students to be creative problem-solvers, Angelina Nuno, Student Activities Project Manager, said.

“Destination Imagination is one of Dallas ISD Student Activities’ most popular and fun programs for students in grades K-12,” she said. “Students collaborate, create, and communicate to find unique solutions to one of seven different challenges utilizing valuable skills learned through the participation in the program.”