2 P.E.I. schools win trip to Tennessee for Destination Imagination tournament

Seven Island students will be taking part in the Destination Imagination Global Finals in Tennessee after winning the first provincial tournament Saturday.

The students from schools in Charlottetown and North RusticoP.E.I. willattend the two-dayDestination Imagination Global Finalsin May.

Stonepark Intermediate School students, CailynMacAulay, Kate Doyle, Libby Smith, Abby Chapman, and EmmaKiley of the Stonepark5th Impact team won thestructural central challenge.

The will be joined byNeleah Lavoie and Kaitlyn MacNeillof Gulf Shore Consolidated School in North Rustico. who won the improv centralchallenge.

The winning teams will be competing with 16,000 students from around the world as theydemonstrate innovative thinking.

• P.E.I. schools compete in Destination Imagination tournament

"Well at first we thought that our prize would be to go on to Halifax. We didn't realize that it was such a big prize or a big opportunity so we were very excited, of course," saidKathrynRajamanie, a Grade 7 language arts teacher.

"We knew we had got through and that was wonderful and then they started asking us about passports and that's when the girls sort of freaked out a little bit. We had lots of screaming."

It was the first time aDestination Imagination tournament had been held on the Island with 10 intermediate schools taking part. Students had competed in Nova Scotia's tournament the year before.

The Island studentshad topreparea presentationfor the judges in the fields of improv, engineering, service learning or the fine arts.

They also had to do an "instant challenge,"which they saw for the first time at the competition.

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