Conner has been a part of Destination Imagination for 4 years now. I am not very good at explaining or defining what that is but I will try. The kids are given two kinds of challenges, one is an instant challenge that could be anything but they know absolutely nothing about it until they are in the competition. The other challenge they can plan for and is in various categories. There are building challenges, acting challenges, etc. The kids must come up with their own solutions without any adult interference. They meet every week and practice, build, plan, etc. Last year Conner's group did well and competed at the state level after winning first place at districts. This year we had districts just last week-end and placed first again. The challenge they boys picked was to do an improvisation. During the year they had to research various historical time periods and vocations during those time periods. They had to research stage make up styles and how those characters would act. Then they had to prepare for various kinds of pandemoniums that could occur as well as contemporary characters. They don't know any of the exact things they will be given until right before their performance and they are given three of the elements at the beginning and they have four minutes to plan a skit and apply make up to one character. After that they are given the contemporary character and one minute to add that into their skit and then they are to perform. Here is their skit and if it doesn't work then you can view it on youtube.com with the title Destination Imagination 2014 SOS.
