Destination Imagi Nation - Team Challenges

Team Challenges

Each year, five new Team Challenges are written by a board of writers for the program, known as challenge DIvelopers. Generally, there is a challenge that relates to each of the following areas:

• technical
• scientific
• theatrical
• structural
• improvisation
• philanthropic
• community serivice ☺
• rising stars (a non-competitive challenge for DI's youngest participants)

Each challenge includes aspects of each of these. The Team Challenge requires that the team write a skit of up to eight minutes in length (or six minutes for improvisational or nonverbal challenges) that creatively presents the solution to a problem presented in the challenge explanation. The goal of the challenge is that the team develops a solution that is integrally tied into the creative skit. Points are awarded not only for completing the challenge's requirements, but also for creativity, teamwork, and performance. Only registered team members can help with the challenge.

For most team challenges, up to 240 points are based on the Central Challenge (the team's creative solution to the basic problem, including their artistic presentation of the solution), and an additional 30 points can be earned for each of two Team Choice Elements, formerly called Side Trips (team-chosen stylistic elements of the presentation; e.g. costumes, props, music, etc).

Improv Challenges require team members to select skit elements (some pre-researched, some not) and create a skit in 30 minutes of "StuDIo" time. They then present their skit, which is limited to 5 minutes in length. This type of challenge diverges from the traditional script writing and acting to focus on quick thinking and team work. This segment is worth up to 300 points and does not feature Team Choice Elements.