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Team Managers 

Watch your team learn and grow the entire challenge season. 

Why be a Team Manager?

  • Set your own schedule
  • A very visible, engaging, and meaningful way to volunteer
  • Watch kids develop team-building and problem-solving skills right before your eyes
  • Get to know your kids’ friends
  • Be AMAZED at what kids this age can do
  • Be filled with pride when your team FINALLY solve that problem that has been bugging them for weeks
  • Find yourself incorporating DI principles into your parenting
  • Get the motivation to finally teach your kid how to use that sewing machine, power drill, editing software, etc.
  • Socialize and become friends with other Team Managers
  • Be seen as SUPER COOL in your kids’ eyes!​​​​​

Teach Life Skills

In DI, kids gain important life skills like creative thinking, problem solving, collaboration, perseverance, risk taking, and project management. 
DI focuses on the process not the product. 
  • Creative problem-solving: Learn how to think, not what to think.
  • Kid-powered/Team-driven: Energize students to own all decisions, creations, and results.
  • Friendly competition: Motivate teams to reach for the stars, while also rooting for each other.
  • Global diversity: Encourage and celebrate differences in each other, and differences in ideas.
Source: Destination Imagination Info for School Administrators & PTA
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Watch this 7 min video for practical info about: 
  • Time commitment as a Team Manager
  • Challenge season timeline
  • Steps for registering as a Team Manager
  • What a Team Manager DOES and DOESN'T do
  • Where to get resources and support
Ready to be a Team Manager? See Start a Team. ​

Get Monthly Support from WA DI
WA State DI holds monthly virtual training and support for all WA Team Managers during the DI season. 
  • 9/19: Virtual (Zoom link) 6:30 to 8 pm
  • 10/10: Virtual (Zoom tbd) 6:30 to 8 pm
  • 11/14: Virtual (Zoom tbd) 6:30 to 8 pm
  • 12/12: Virtual (Zoom tbd) 6:30 to 8 pm
  • 1/09: Virtual (Zoom tbd) 6:30 to 8 pm
  • 2/13: Virtual (Zoom tbd) 6:30 to 8 pm
See the Eastern Region or Western Region page to learn more. ​