Niles Destination Imagination team to head to global finals

Staff report

Niles

Niles Middle School will send the DestiNation ImagiNation Æ team to the Global Finals competition in Knoxville, Tenn., from Wednesday through next Saturday.

The team, made up of sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders, took first place in the state tournament, becoming state champions.

The team of six now qualifies for the opportunity to compete with thousands of students from all across the United States and more than 30 countries, including teams from China, Turkey, Brazil, United Kingdom, Mexico and Russia.

The team needs to raise $5,080 to cover housing and all meals while the team is at the competition.

Niles Destination Imagination has been active for 11 years.

Teams from Niles have gone to the Ohio State Tournament nearly every year since the program began.

This year’s team will be the fifth team of students from the district to make it to Global Finals, where they will represent the state of Ohio in the worldwide competition.

Destination Imagination is an educational program in which student teams solve open-ended challenges and are required to think on their feet, work together and devise original solutions that satisfy the requirements of the challenge.

This year’s team competed in the improvisational challenge at the middle- school level.

This challenge focused on current events across the world and in the United States.