Destination Imagination wins state, headed to nationals

Mountain Brook High School students Zack Feig, Ricky Feig, Cat Schultz, Alex Schultz, James Pewitt and Anna Weldon can now put Destination Imagination State Champions on their resume.

In February, they won the Alabama regional tournament, and in April they won the Alabama Affiliate tournament with a wind-powered kinetic sculpture and skit retelling story of Jack and the Beanstalk.

As part of their solution, they built a 15-foot-tall giant and wind-powered “mill” with a working conveyor belt. The team presented its solution at the competition in an eight-minute skit.

This creativity competition takes teams of five to seven students and asks them to devise original solutions to mind-bending problems.

“It’s a time intensive activity that takes four hours a week or more, with the kids spending about 20 hours a week the two weeks before the competition,” said team coach Trina Feig. “This team started preparing in January of 2013.”

This team is currently fundraising to travel to the Destination Imagination Global Finals in Knoxville to compete against schools from around the world this summer.