DESTINATION IMAGINATION

Chippewa Valley Imagine! is a district-wide program enabling district students to participate in the international creativity competition, Destination ImagiNation.  CVI Frequently Asked Questions

RISING STAR INFORMATION NIGHTS (grades K-2)

Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 @ 6:30 pm - at Ojibwa Elementary room 106

Thursday, Dec.  3, 2009 @ 6:30 pm - at Ojibwa Elementary cafeteria

March 13, 2010 : Region 8 competition for competitive (grades 3-12) and Rising Star teams (grades K-2) @ Henry Ford High School, Sterling Heights

April 17, 2010: MICA state competition for qualifying competitive teams; Holt High School, Holt

*What is Rising Stars?   Rising Stars is a Destination ImagiNation program designed especially for children in grades K-2.  Teams have a specially designed challenge (this year it is called Hidden!) to solve with their teammates as creatively as possible.  Students meet the requirements of the challenge and put a skit together to show how they solved the challenge.  Students do all their own work and come up with their own ideas.  They can make costumes, scenery, props or use objects they already have that might meet the challenge requirements.  Students have fun while learning to work with others and plan to solve a problem in the most creative way. The Rising Star program is non-competitive.  Although students must register in December, teams do not start meeting until January.  The program ends with their performance at MICA Region 8 tournament (this year on March 7, 2009 at Utica High School) in front of the specially trained rising Star ap"praise"rs., which is always a great experience for the children.

For more information on DI please contact Karen Spence.

Congratulations to our "Seneca" Middle Level team.  This team placed 1st in their challenge (B: Instinct Messaging) at (the 5 county) regional competition held 3/07/09 at Utica H. S., and also received a special award, a "Da Vinci Award," for the exceptional creativity in their performance. 

At state competition, held 4/04/09 at Central Michigan University, the team placed 5th in the state, and won another Da Vinci Award for exceptional creativity of presentation!  Only 3 Da Vinci Awards were presented at state with hundreds of teams competing. 

The program had a very successful 2007-2008 school year. Team "Seneca", comprised of Andrew Belprez, Daniel Ciesielski, Aaron Fanaee, Evan Leedy, Tyler Piekarski, Paige Rueter adn Ryan Rueter, placed first at MICA Region 8 competition. The team competed in Middle Level Obstacles, Of Course and placed in the top six at state competition at Central Michigan University held in April. The Chippewa Valley Imagine Elementary Team of George Larsen, Jack Fornasiero, Alissa Malburg, Lindsay Martlock, Mary Moore and Olivia Moore placed second at regional held in March at Utica HS. They competed at state in Elementary Level Switch!. Team Shawnee won medals at both regional and state competitions in Elementary Level Obstacles, Of Course, and competed at DI Global Finals May 21-24 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Pictured are team members (from left) Stephanie Belprez, Rebekah Kummerl, Natalie Hood, Jonathan Farell, Jacob Kalahar, Chip Fain and Josh Kalahar with their team managers. Congratulations to the teams and their volunteer team managers, Randy Leedy, Wendy Larson, Lisa Malburg, Ron Fain and Jim Kalahar.