A total of 21 Katy ISD student teams placed in the Gulf Coast Region Destination Imagination Tournament, with nine teams advancing to the State Tournament in April. Destination Imagination is an educational program where student teams solve open-ended challenges and present their solutions at tournaments. The program encourages students to have fun, take risks, focus, and frame challenges while incorporating STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), the arts, and service learning.
The following Katy ISD Destination Imagination teams are heading to the State Tournament in April:
- The Twisters, Alexander Elementary
- DI Diggers, Alexander Elementary
- Technocrats, Beck Jr. High
- Smart Cookies, Beckendorff Jr. High/Seven Lakes Jr. High
- DIe Harder, Cinco Ranch High School
- DI Champions, Griffin Elementary
- Tie D.I.ers, Katy Elementary
- Gone with the Winders, Mayde Creek Elementary
- Mayde Creek DI-ers, Mayde Creek Elementary
The following Katy ISD Destination Imagination teams placed at the Gulf Coast Regional Tournament:
- Simply Complicated, Beck Jr. High
- Fruit Salad Yummy Yummy, Beckendorff Jr. High
- Team Weird, Bear Creek Elementary
- Flying Mangos, Beck Jr. High
- Wind Visible, Griffin Elementary/Wilson Elementary
- BHE Comets, Holland Elementary
- Katy DI-Gers, Katy Elementary
- Brain Builders, Katy Elementary
- Disguisers, Mayde Creek Jr. High
- Silly Monkeys, McDonald Jr. High
- Exploding Dinamites, Seven Lakes Jr. High
- Still Thinking, Stanley Elementary
The Destination Imagination State Tournament will be held in Katy at Cinco Ranch High School on April 12, 2013.
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