First Place, Inside Impact Service Challenge, High School Level: (l to r) Divya Raghunathan, Sneha Ramesh, Aabia Hasan, Shriyaa Chittibabau, Diyala Bera; managers Amber Khan and Mumtaz Hasan. This senior team also won the prestigious DaVinci Award for outstanding creativity in the creation of their presentation outlining the challenges of poverty through rhyming, singing and rapping. Photos/submitted
Shrewsbury – Shrewsbury Public Schools had the most teams at the Destination Imagination competition – with 20 individual teams from elementary through high school levels – held at Ayer-Shirley High School March 3. Eight of those teams placed; four moved on to the state level competition. Shrewsbury Public Schools also won the Green Thumb award for having the most teams in the region.
Destination Imagination is a worldwide competition where students can solve problems of their choosing in creative ways. The solutions to the projects are often the creation of skits or creative contraptions.
Second Place, Unlikely Attraction Scientific Challenge, Elementary: (l to r) Shifali Maheshguru, Jasman Padam, Diya VijayKumar, Sofiya Goncharova, Laasya Gattu, Vaisalli Navaneethan; managers Kanwaljit Padam and Navaneethan Jaypal.First Place, Treasure! Improve Challenge, Middle School Level: (l to r) Emily Diamond, Thomas Shimer, Sebastian Weber, Zachary Bardash, Pranav Cowlagi; manager Andrew Weber.
