Who Should Consider the Destination Imagination Service Learning Challenge?

If your student has a big heart, a strong sense of purpose, and a passion for helping others, the Destination Imagination (DI) Service Learning Challenge could be exactly what they’re looking for. This challenge is designed for students who want to make a real difference in their communities—while also gaining valuable skills in leadership, problem-solving, and project management.

 

Purpose-Driven Problem Solvers

The Service Learning Challenge is ideal for students who:

• Are passionate about social justice, environmental change, or community improvement

• Want to lead or take action on issues that matter to them

• Like to collaborate, plan, and see their ideas through from concept to completion

• Are natural empaths—tuned into the needs of people, animals, or their environment

What Students Will Do

In this challenge, teams identify a community need, develop a service project, and implement it. They also create a live presentation that creatively shares their process and impact. Students get to use their creativity not just in solving a problem, but in how they share their story with others.

Skills They’ll Gain

Along the way, students will build:

• Project planning and time management skills

• Public speaking and storytelling abilities

• Real-world leadership and teamwork experience

• A deeper sense of social responsibility

A Great Fit For...

• Students interested in volunteering, nonprofits, or civic engagement

• Teens who already participate in student council, youth groups, Scouts, or service clubs

• Young leaders who want to see tangible results from their efforts to make the world better

The DI Service Learning Challenge is more than a project—it’s a chance for young people to take charge, take action, and be proud of the positive change they can bring to their communities.

Whether they’re organizing a food drive, building a pollinator garden, or launching a kindness campaign, these students are tomorrow’s changemakers—and it all starts with one challenge.

2025 - 26 SERVICE LEARNING CHALLENGE PREVIEW: GIVE AND TAKE

In this Challenge, your team will take on a service project that addresses a real community need. Then, you’ll tell a story about what happens when two characters team up to resolve a dispute. How will a misunderstanding throw a wrench into the situation? It’s time to flex your negotiation skills when you take on this season’s Service Learning Challenge!

2025-26 Service Learning Teams get to:

• Identify, design, carry out, and evaluate a project that addresses a need in a real community.
• Create and present a story about at least two conflicting characters who have to work together to address or resolve a dispute.
• Include a misunderstanding and at least two different viewpoints.
• Enhance your Presentation with a dispute depiction.
• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

Want to learn more or get involved? Reach out today!

Take a look at next season's Challenge Previews.  Contact Wisconsin Destination Imagination (WIDI).