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ProjectOUTREACH
Destination ImagiNation® adds community service program

As its latest creative problem solving Challenge for youth, the National Dairy Council is proud to sponsor this initiative enriching local quality of life.

projectOUTREACH® will be included in the lineup of creative problem solving Challenges for the 2008-2009 Challenge season. The addition of projectOUTREACH brings to six the number of Challenges in which school age youth worldwide can participate as they work toward earning a spot at worldwide Global Finals in May of 2009. “By applying the creative problem solving processes we have developed over the past 25 years, there is so much good that can be done to improve the quality of life in our local communities,” declared Rusty McCarty, President of Destination ImagiNation Inc., a worldwide non-profit based in Glassboro, NJ. “We look forward to having hundreds and perhaps thousands of young people thinking creatively to serve and enrich the communities in which they live.”

Participating in projectOUTREACH will take Destination ImagiNation’s core values of creativity, problem solving, and teamwork into the real world as teams design and implement local projects that will yield positive, visible results for their communities and neighborhoods.

National Dairy Council is Prime Sponsor
The National Dairy Council is sponsoring the projectOUTREACH competition this season, offering to fund participation fees for teams choosing to take part. By supporting projectOUTREACH, The National Dairy Council is encouraging young people to use creative problem solving techniques to participate in community enrichment and improvement activities that will have lasting effects. This season, the Destination ImagiNation projectOUTREACH Challenge invites teams to “Take Charge!” Teams of middle school, high school, and university-aged students will seek to increase their peers’ physical and mental health by rallying them to eat better and become more physically active.

They will design projects that mobilize their peers to take action and increase the in-school availability and consumption of the Four Food Groups: low-fat and fat-free milk and milk products, vegetables, fruits, whole grains.

To execute projects successfully, teams must manage their issue-based initiatives and track their progress and results using qualitative and quantitative data. projectOUTREACH teams will demonstrate and illustrate their process and results during the Tournament phase of the project, which involves a Presentation, Exhibit, Portfolio, and problem-solving Simulation to be evaluated by Appraisers at Regional and Affiliate Tournaments and at Destination ImagiNation Global Finals.
Teams interested in participating in projectOUTREACH should contact their local Regional or Affiliate Directors to see if the Challenge is available to them. Teams who participate will find that they really can change the world through creativity, problem solving, and teamwork. For more information, click here.