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Northborough DI team heads to Global competitions
The Northborough Destination Imagination elementary school team needs your support to help offset costs to compete in the Globals in May.
NORTHBOROUGH, MA—Elementary students Paneet Kandola, Bridget Alfonso and Niko Conway, aptly named Believe in the Marshmallow Dogs, along with high school assistant managers Genevieve Cox and Katherine Dawson, tackled the Service Learning Challenge of Destination Imagination (DI) by partnering with their community to identify local needs, develop, and run a program to address those needs.
These third and fourth grades girls teamed with their local animal shelter to address food cost of the sheltered animals. They organized awareness and food drives to ensure a continued supply of food for the shelter animals in need.
They presented their project at both the regional and the state via a skit about fairy veterinarians who founded the Mystical Toucan Society and were on a mission to save an injured rainbow zebra with a magical cat. This first-time team’s project placed third at States and now advances to the Global Tournament hosted by the University of Tennessee.
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The cost to compete at Globals is $750 per person for the three girls and their two high school managers. Please help the girls show their hard work and represent Northborough by competing at DI Globals. They have set up a GoFundMe page.
Destination Imagination (DI) is a volunteer-led, educational non-profit organization utilizing a fun, hands-on system of learning that fosters students’ creativity, courage and curiosity through open-ended academic Challenges in the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), fine arts and service learning.
