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.

2026 - 27 SERVICE LEARNING CHALLENGE PREVIEW: GAME CHANGER

Video games are full of quests, obstacles, and creative solutions—and now, your team gets to bring that world to life! In this season’s Service Learning Challenge, you’ll design and carry out a project that addresses a real community need and share what you accomplished through a story set in a video game world.

Collect your resources, avoid enemies, and strive toward your goals, all while making your world a better place!

2026 - 27 teams doing the Service Learning Challenge will get to:

• Identify, design, carry out, and evaluate a project that addresses a need in a real community.
• Create and present a live theatrical Presentation that tells a story about at least one character who is attempting to achieve an objective within a video game world.
• Include a game resource and a desperate situation in the Presentation.
• Integrate information about the Project into the Presentation.
  Design and build a game resource tracker.
• Create and present two Team Choice Elements that show off the team’s interests, skills, areas of strength, and talents.

 

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Questions? Reach out to us at info@wisconsindi.org or (414) 207-4117.