Mid-Cities Creativity encourages team members to try new and different ideas, to explore different skills, to think outside the box – or to convert the box into something else entirely.  DestiNation Imagination offers five different types of Challenges, which provide opportunities to explore a variety of skills and scenarios. 

In order to encourage team members to dare to explore, Mid-Cities has established the “Magellan” award, to recognize those kids who, over the years, have completed solutions to Challenges in each of the five categories.  Named after Ferdinand Magellan, the first person to circumnavigate the globe, it reflects the continued striving to reach the stars – and even beyond to the galaxies of the Magellanic Clouds.  We would like to recognize these stellar Team Members at the Mid-Cities Creativity Regional Tournament. 

Team Managers or Coordinators may nominate team members who qualify.

The different types of challenges are:

¨       Challenge A - Technical (Obstacles, Of Course, DestiNations in Time, Change in DIrection, It’s Your Move )

¨      Challenge B - Combination – Theatrical / Technical or Science  (Hit or Myth!, The Plot and the Pendulum, ViDIo Adventure, StranDId, If Music be the Food of Life…, etc.)

¨       Challenge C - Theatrical (DI've Got a Secret, Cartoon DIimensions, Theater smARTS, On Holiday, Shakespeare, etc.)

¨       Challenge D - Improv (Chorific, Upbeat Improv, Once Improv a Time, Instant Pudding Improv, etc.)

¨       Challenge E - Structure (Switch!, GuessDImate, ConnecDId, Dual DIlemma, It’s Not Impastable, RatiOMetric, etc.)

Suitable challenges/problems from any Creative Problem Solving program that Mid-Cities has supported in the past may be used to qualify a team member for this award.

Download this information sheet.  (MS Word)   (PDF)

Team Managers and Coordinators should download the Nomination form (MSWord) (PDF) and submit to Charles Compton by no later than January 12, 2008.  Download an MS Word Fill In Form version of the form.  Submit via email to:  cccompton@texasdi.org or mail to:

Charles Compton
5607 Oak Branch
Arlington, Texas  76016

Team Members may earn the award more than once but they must submit different challenges for each award.

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