Findley Oaks Students Use Brains, Creativity To Win Tournament

Findley Oaks Elementary participated in the Georgia Destination Imagination Affiliate Tournament on March 28 at Duluth High School.

Destination Imagination is an educational program where student teams solve open-ended challenges and present their solutions during the Tournament to a panel of judges.

In working to solve a selected challenge, teams learn important life skills such as time management, collaboration, conflict resolution as well as creativity and critical thinking. Findley Oaks sent seven teams in its second year of participation. The teams worked to solve their respective challenges for five months.

Findley Oaks sent three non-competitive Rising Stars teams comprised of kindergarten through second grade students, two competitive Technical teams and two competitive Fine Arts teams comprised of third, fourth and fifth grade students.

One of our teams, The Smarties, comprised of third and fourth graders earned a spot to compete at the global competition at the end of May in Knoxville.

There will be roughly 45 states, 22 countries and 17 Canadian provinces competing. They are trying to earn funds to attend through a GoFundMe page at http://www.gofundme.com/teamsmarties.

For more information, contact Heather Mikolajczak, Destination Imagination program coordinator for Findley Oaks, at heather.mikolajczak@gmail.com