{"id":9535,"date":"2025-03-06T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/?p=9535"},"modified":"2025-03-06T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:28:08","slug":"congratulations-to-di","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/2025\/03\/06\/congratulations-to-di\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to DI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Destination Imagination is&nbsp;an innovative program for ages K-12. The&nbsp;mission of Destination Imagination is to inspire and equip youth to imagine and innovate through the creative process.&nbsp;Team Challenges are available each year in the following categories: Technical, Scientific, Fine Arts, Improvisational, Engineering, Service Learning, and Early Learning. Although each Team Challenge has a specific educational focus, they each also incorporate elements to make them truly multi-disciplinary and cross-curricular. with thousands of students&nbsp;a year participating&nbsp;across&nbsp;each state.&nbsp;<br>Willard teams&nbsp;took part in the North East Regional Destination Imagination Tournament! With over 800 people joining&nbsp;together at Beachwood Schools on March 1st, our teams&nbsp;spent the day in their challenge&nbsp;and Instant Challenge competition&nbsp;against schools in the Northeast Region.&nbsp;<br>Willard&#8217;s Elementary Challenges Lead by Ms. Vaughn were the Misfit Pencils! These students&nbsp;took the Fine Arts challenge and won 3rd place!&nbsp;Zaria CreightonPenny BennerJacklyn BurdickRaniah ShannonHaarper&nbsp;Warfield<br>Also led by Ms. Vaughn, at the elementary level the Trucker Boys took the Technical Challenge and won 4th place!&nbsp;Cartier HowardLiam WickXavier Hicks<br>In the Middle School Miss Meadows was the team manager of two teams.&nbsp;First up, the Intergalactic Space Freaks took he Technical Challenge and won 2nd place!&nbsp;Miley MileyEthan McFarland&nbsp;Kaylee Sotak-Barnes&nbsp;Robert Mach&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other team in Middle School, Retrograde, chose the Scientific\u00a0Challenge and won 3rd place.\u00a0Alex KaleugherAdam Koniowsky\u00a0Zyon Witherow\u00a0\u00a0<br>All four teams will go on to the State Competition\u00a0on March 29th in Baberton. These teams have worked hard since October and will continue to fine tune and strengthen\u00a0their\u00a0work for the next competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"823\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8338-823x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8338-823x1024.jpeg 823w, https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8338-241x300.jpeg 241w, https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8338-768x955.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8338-1235x1536.jpeg 1235w, https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8338-1646x2048.jpeg 1646w, https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8338-161x200.jpeg 161w, https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8338-150x187.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8349-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8349-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8349-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8349-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8349-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8349-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8349-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/IMG_8349-150x113.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destination Imagination is&nbsp;an innovative program for ages K-12. The&nbsp;mission of Destination Imagination is to inspire and equip youth to imagine and innovate through the creative process.&nbsp;Team Challenges are available each year in the following categories: Technical, Scientific, Fine Arts, Improvisational, Engineering, Service Learning, and Early Learning. Although each Team Challenge has a specific educational focus, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/2025\/03\/06\/congratulations-to-di\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations to DI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9539,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535\/revisions\/9539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/willard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}