Destination Imagination Colorado

✈️ Talk about a high-flying finish to the 2025-26 season! We had an absolute blast hanging out at the hangar for our IC Intensive Camp. Training surrounded by airplanes was the perfect inspiration for some next-level Instant Challenges.

A massive shoutout to the incredible leaders who guided our teams through the training: Affiliate Challenge Masters , Hannah, Cole and also our RCM Danelle.

Thank you so much to for hosting us, taking such great care of our crew, and providing the ultimate inspirational venue! 🚀✨

We’re taking Instant Challenge training to new heights—literally. We are setting up camp inside an actual airplane hangar for a day of high-flying, fast-paced creative problem-solving!

💻Join us tomorrow, June 6 (Saturday). Sign up in the link below:
https://tinyurl.com/4js4ervt

1st Place Fine Arts Challenge, University Level
Destination Imagination Global Finals 2026

The DICO Univ DI team Maximum Jank is comprised of Ren Deru, Colorado State University; Ryder Fine, Colorado School of Mines; Tanzhen Deru, Metro State University; Amelie Keyser, Salida HS; Liam O’Rourke, Regis HS, and Ming Deru, Compass Montessori HS.

For months, these dedicated students planned around their busy schedules, building many projects at home and using a handful in-person meetings and video calls to coordinate their efforts. They climbed up and jumped off extremely detailed 2-story sets of a synthetic fertilizer factory and hospital, sewed costumes and a life-sized dummy that was dismantled during the performance, created gory nature prosthetics, and engineered EMG-activated tentacles and telescoping stilts. Norma Nature wanted to destroy humanity; Steampunk Steve tried to heal Norma; and Fumigator Frank ultimately provided the vaccine that solved the problem. As usual for this team, their performance can best be described as “hysterical and unhinged.”

3rd Place Service Learning Challenge, SL and Renaissance Award: Conservatory of Matter from Cherry Creek Schools
Destination Imagination Global Finals 2026

As Colorado’s only secondary level service learning team, The Conservatory of Matter was thrilled to accept not only third place at Globals but also the coveted Renaissance award! Our team identified isolation as the community need we wanted to address. We played music concerts at senior homes to help the elderly feel like they mattered and we also made over 6000 servings of bean soup to help those with food insecurity know they were not alone. We had an amazing time at globals and can’t wait to dive into next years challenge!

Watch the feature story on our 4 teams from who went to Global Finals.

4 DPS Destination Imagination Teams Head to Global Finals The Destination Imagination teams at Bryant Webster, C3, Grant Ranch and Slavens qualified for this month's Global Finals competition in Kansas City. Destina...

10th Place, Technical Category P Division, Elementary Level: Team R U Ready
Destination Imagination Global Finals 2026

Team R U Ready is an elementary level team from and has been working together since they were in 1st grade as rising stars. Over the years, they met weekly during the DI season, and have developed and improved their problem-solving, building, engineering, and teamwork skills together. They shine brightest through their creative script writing, sense of humor, and enthusiastic acting. They have experienced many ups and downs as a team and learned many lessons together and were so proud that all of those experiences led them to earn a spot at global finals this year. While only 4 of the 7 teammates were able to attend, all 7 were part of the team’s success! It was an experience they will never forget!

9th Place, Technical Category, ML: That's A Cool Name
Destination Imagination Global Finals 2026

The DI Colorado team "That's a Cool Name", from and Cherry Creek Schools, just returned from Global Finals in Kansas City and they brought home a 9th place finish in the Technical Category, Middle School Level. The team spent months engineering an original game show from scratch, building everything from a four-pulley levitation device to a self-spinning, light-and-sound synchronized wheel, all on a $225 student-managed budget. Hours before their Global Finals presentation, key technical components failed but the team pushed through tears to make emergency repairs and take the stage.

Highest Instant Challenge Score: DI or Die (Becoming Super, ML)
Destination Imagination Global Finals 2026

DI or Die is a middle level team from with only two returning students and five brand new participants. This team placed second at JeffCo regionals and decided to create new costumes and revised their story for the State Tournament. These revisions won them first place and a DaVinci award at State for their creative crustification storyline.

DI or Die struggled with IC all season, so it was a surprise for the team that their season culminated in winning High IC at Global Finals. They learned many new skills this season such as sewing, safely using power saws and drills, and how to wire and solder electrical circuits. They had a ton of fun and already can’t wait to get started on next season’s challenge!

🇺🇸 We remember today and always