Our new Learning Management System is still new! Come learn about the bugs we discovered and the changes that will be made over the summer.
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During the 2023-24 season, all Affiliates and Regions were asked to create Event Guides to promote accessibility at their tournaments. In this presentation, we will review what we've learned from that process and review action steps for accessibility in the coming year.
Deductions, appeals, and dialogues, oh my! Join the Educational Experiences team as we discuss these processes, the underlying philosophy of Destination Imagination's deduction policy, and how to change our thinking from using deductions as punishment to using them as a positive opportunity for team member advocacy.
We promise; the team can solve their Challenge on their own! The line between Interference and non-Interference can be thin. We have observed that some Team Managers and parents don't understand the importance and benefits of avoiding Interference. We will discuss what falls on either side of the Interference line and the steps we are taking to ensure Team Managers, team members, and parents understand how and why to avoid interference.
Generative Artificial Intelligence has filled headlines recently, but what implications does it have for Destination Imagination? In addition to reviewing Destination Imagination's guiding principles for the use of generative AI, this session will also cover questions such as: What is generative AI? How does generative AI contribute to the creative process? What should I do as an Appraiser or Team Manager if a team uses generative AI in creating a solution to a DI Challenge? Join special guest Adam Garry and members of the Educational Experiences team for a lively discussion of all things AI!
One of the roles of affiliate leadership is to understand their local context and meet the needs of their local communities. Urooj will take you through her process of gathering local context information and her partnership with Destination Imagination to establish a tailored marketing strategy. This model has opened doors to whole schools or whole grade levels to be involved in Destination Imagination while ensuring that teams make it to the Affiliate tournament. If this has been an ask from your communities, this model could work for you.
In this panel discussion, representatives from DI Affiliates around the world will share some of their unique projects. Attendees will learn more about teen engagement, Alumni training, and virtual tournament successes from their fellow Affiliates.
As a DI alumna who was part of a DI team that turned into a second family, I understand how important it is to incorporate team bonding and traditions into your DI season. My team managers urged us to spend time together outside of DI meetings and started traditions that still stand today, even 5 years after we all graduated high school.
This presentation will discuss the important role that team building and traditions play in cultivating a DI family and how to get started. I will give examples of team bonding activities for in and out of meetings, with and without team managers, and traditions that will stick with your team members for years. I will share my experience and draw from the experience of those in attendance to explain why it is important to cultivate a DI family and advice on how to get there.
Join us as members of our expanded DEIB committee discuss our strategic plan and provide status reports on this season's initiatives. There will be opportunity for questions from the attendees.
DI's Chief Executive Officer and members of the leadership team will talk about DI's past, present and future in this enlightening conversation about the ins and outs, ups and downs of running one very unique non-profit.
This will be a targeted marketing session based on survey input from Affiliate Directors. Topics will focus on marketing specifically to K-12 schools, building a DI culture in your districts, and other key pieces to building and maintaining successful DI programs in your area. Affiliate and Regional Directors are highly encouraged to make this session.
With new leads being directly passed to Affiliates and Regions for follow-up, this important session, will help leaders from across the DI community understand the flow and process of lead cultivation. Witness a mock sales call and learn how to Tell & Sell (Tell your DI story and sell the DI program) to prospective Team Managers.
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This session will give Affiliate Directors an opportunity to learn more about other DI affiliates, and share ideas with other DIAD members. We plan to invite several affiliates to take a few minutes each to tell everyone about their affiliate and its history, any problems they have encountered that others might run into, and how they have addressed those problems. We'll also include time for informal discussions with your fellow Affiliate Directors.
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Attendees will learn how to culturally break the ice, the four levels of communication, and dissect our current communication issues across the country.
Speaker: Hakim Oliver
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This presentation will be covering a variety of different topics from AI, software engineering to the use of Arduinos and other microcontrollers in DI solutions. It is important for Appraisers, Team Managers, and Challenge Masters to learn about these emerging technologies so that they could cultivate and fully appreciate a team's novel solutions.
Speaker: Shikhar Joshi
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DI will be transitioning from our current LMS hosted by Adobe Learning Manager to a new LMS host. This workshop will give you an overview of the new LMS and will be the foundation for more webinars over the summer. The new DI Learn LMS will be live by September 1st.
Speaker: Kris Beisel
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Want to know more about how project management can be used in your Affiliate? Affiliates run projects all the time,yet may have not been introduced to project management tools and techniques that can help you and your teams more effectively meet your goals. This session will take Affiliate Directors and their leadership teams through a Project Management 101 for Non-Profits workshop to support you in implementing and manage projects at Destination Imagination.
Speaker: Karen Dove
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As the world evolves, business success relies more heavily on measuring impact. In this session, we will explore and discuss forms of impact measurement and documentation that go beyond the "numbers reached".
Speaker: Renee Rainville
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The world of accessibility is wonderfully wide and innovative. This session will cover the basics of disability inclusion, accessible event planning, and will offer strategies for implementation through centering event planner's access needs. This session will also model a few best practices in accessible virtual events so that participants better understand accommodative possibilities!
Speaker: Shelby Seier
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During the session we will review DEIB relevance in current times with a lens of benefits an inclusive culture in a team environment can bring to the overall expereince for everyone involved. We will cover ways to identifying and preventing bias with sharing tips on adopting and promoting inclusion during team formations and beyond. We will suggest several best practices for applying equity as teams go through the creative process. We will also look into ways of avoiding common DEIB pitfalls.
Speaker: Beena Hemkar
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This session is intended to introduce Team Managers to DI's Resource Area. We will offer a live demonstration of the basics, including how to be assigned as a Team Manager, how to process your background check, how to download the Challenges and other important documents, and how to share information about your team. First time Team Managers are strongly encouraged to attend!
Speaker: Leonard Greenwood
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Beginning in the 23-24 Challenge season, all DI Affiliates will be required to create an Event Guide for each of their tournaments. This session will review the Event Guide Template and other tools for creating this important resources.
Speaker: Kelsey Celek
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Join us as members of our expanded DEIB committee discuss our strategic plan and provide status reports on this season's initiatives. There will be opportunity for questions from the attendees.
Speaker: Renee Rainville
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All DI Challenges, Instant Challenges, and educational experiences are built upon DI’s unique learning philosophy and the creative process. In this session, Director of Educational Experiences, Johnny Wells, will explain why that matters, how DI fits into the current educational landscape, and how DI keeps students engaged.
Speaker: Johnny Wells
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Let's talk about getting your TMs through the background check process painlessly. Whether they are using the Sterling Volunteers integration, sharing their Sterling check, or using the school waiver, we will give you the tools and insights to help them.
Speaker: Adam Law
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The Digital Open is a virtual Challenge that provides teams with a flexible experience. Participants create a video solution in seven weeks, putting everyone involved on a time crunch, team members and Team Managers alike. I participated in the Challenge for the past two years, and I wanted to share the lessons I learned that allowed my team to place in the top three both those years. This session seeks to cover the basics of creating a video presentation for the Digital Open, from video editing and filming to coming up with innovative story ideas.
Speaker: Ananya Aatreya
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DI's Chief Executive Officer and members of the leadership team will talk about DI's past, present and future in this enlightening conversation about the ins and outs, ups and downs of running one very unique non-profit.
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Wellbeing has been a buzzword topic, but what does this look like on both a collective and individual level? As an entrepreneur within coaching, and an employee within structural engineering, Natalie-Claire is a strong advocate for burnout prevention - particularly within the demanding premises of STEM. When we volunteer to support initiatives close to our hearts, we feel great. However, it's not unusual for this rewarding feeling to turn into a tasking chore if not managed in the best way possible. In this session, we look at personal values, current structures in our lives, and how to plan forward in the best way possible.
Speaker: Natalie-Claire Luwisha
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Speaker: Laura Drake
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Do you wonder how to help your team members describe their work on thier DI solution in resumes, college applications, job interviews, and scholarship applications? Destination Imagination has formed a partnership with the DeBruce Foundation, the inventors of the Agile Work Profiler (AWP). The AWP helps students understand the strengths and interests (Agilities) they have gained through their work in DI and in their other activities. Join us to learn how the AWP can help your team learn to recognize and rely on the strengths of their team members and how they can apply their Agilities to their futures.
Speakers: Kris Beisel, representatives from the DeBruce Foundation
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As a student who went to Global Finals three times and is from a small town in New Hampshire, I understand the excitement that comes with making it to Globals. However, shortly after the excitement comes the conversations about the cost of Globals and fundraising. My team received no assistance from our high school and therefore had to rely on support from the people in our small town. Some of the ideas I would discuss are spaghetti dinners, silent auctions, road tolls, bake sales, crispy creme donuts sales, dances, and asking your city or town hall for donations. Fundraising seems straightforward, but for teams that haven't had to raise that much money at once, it can be very beneficial to hear ideas from others who have been in that position. I would like to present on the topic and then invite participants to ask questions and share their own ideas and experiences.
Speaker: Kelsey Alimandi
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This two-fold session unlocks innovative confidence & creativity within DI volunteers and supports them with activities to do the same with DI students. Utilising sensory exploration, understanding the "inner child", and building unique leadership styles are three focal pillars, which will transform how volunteers and students engage with one another. This energetic workshop will be led by UK-based Confidence & Creativity Coach, Beverley Akufo-Addo who has helped hundreds of people worldwide find, own and show up with their VYBE.
Speaker: Beverley Akufo-Addo
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Using Destination Imagination IC and TC as the vehicle, this session will breakdown how to expose your teams to Project Management based on their developmental levels.
Speaker: Renee Rainville
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Your role as a Team Manager can be simultaneously rewarding and frustrating! DI has several tools available to help you guide your team and hold on to your sanity. We will discuss the available training courses, give an overview of Roadmap, review the Resource Area, show you how you can use the many tools to guide your team without crossing the Interference line, and answer questions about the Team Manager experience.
Speaker: Kris Beisel
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Attendees would be motivated to be the voice of Destination Imagination by following their heart to create and implement a new Destination Imagination program in their world as well as to increase participation in an existing one.The learning outcomes would include the steps to introducing Destination Imagination to a school district or any entity, inviting participants, recruiting volunteers, implementing team practices and gathering financial support.
Speaker: Jamie King
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This panel discussion will include representatives from DI Affiliates that offer summer programming such as camps, workshops, and more! Learn more about how these Affiliates integrate these programs into their communities. Attendees will also get a sneak peek at SkillFire, a new product from DIHQ that could help facilitate similar programming.
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Please join the Educational Experiences Team as we discuss how Destination Imagination promotes a Growth Mindset in participants of all ages. During this round table discussion, we will focus on how Growth Mindset interacts with DI pedagogy, how you can support your team members in developing a Growth Mindset, and why Growth Mindset is so important to creativity and education.
Speakers: Erica Begun-Veenstra, Kris Beisel, Amanda Potter, Johnny Wells
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Sales calls have been important part of converting parents, teachers, schools and districts into DI customers. In this session, attendees will learn how to quickly and succinctly describe DI's Challenge Experience and how to get started. A script template will also be available so attendees can put what they learn into practice.
Speaker: Adam Law
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This session is intended for Affiliate Directors and their leadership teams to learn the basics of DI's Resource Area. Join us for a live demonstration about how to update your Affiliate information, manage your teams, and more! New Affiliate Directors are strongly encourages to attend.
Speaker: Leonard Greenwood
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This session is intended for Affiliate Directors and their leadership teams who want to learn more about the project management tools available to them via the Project Management Institute Educational Foundation (PMIEF) and how to integrate project management tools into their programming. Project management skill building is key to supporting young people to imagine and innovate so they become the creative and collaborative leaders of tomorrow. Join Karen Dove to find out more about the PMIEF, it's mission and partnership with Destination Imagination, and the free tools and resources available to support your programs.
Speaker: Karen Dove
DIAD is a group of DI Affiliate Directors dedicated to facilitating a positive Challenge Experience for students around the world. Join us for this meet-and-greet session to socialize with DIAD officers and share your experiences with DI.
Hosts: Gabi Guererro and Lisa Diner
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Attendees can expect to learn about the STREAM-PLP, a group creative problem-solving workshop that uses writing, engineering, and theater activities for middle and high school students to set personal, academic, and vocational goals in a Personal Learning Plan (PLP). The PLP is based on the Special Education IEP, and developed and reimagined annually by the mainstream student. (Leigh asks that you immediately write down/record whatever popped into your head as you read the above description of the STREAM-PLP, and please consider sharing that during the conference presentation discussion.)
Speaker: Leigh I. Cremin
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