When I started working for Destination Imagination, I never dreamed that “Podcast Producer” would become part of my job description. And yet, for the past few months, I’ve been so pleased to create DI’s new podcast – What’s the Big Idea? – which will premiere on July 22. In each episode of What’s the Big…

I’m excited to share one of the projects I’ve been working on at my job with Destination Imagination. While I’ve been doing our introductory webinars for awhile, on March 24th I’ll be leading a new one! Drawing from my history as a theatre teaching artist, the new webinar focuses on how to use improvisation techniques…

Last week I had the great pleasure of getting to speak to the members of the Quincy Service League.  This organization was always supportive of the programs I worked for in Illinois, so I was glad to join them for a virtual meeting as their guest speaker. They let me choose the topic I wanted…

I’ve so enjoyed writing little wrap up posts about what I learned from a production, I decided to to a few throwback posts.  I’ll be writing about a few shows that had a big impact on me, but never received a “What I Learned” feature. For the first one, it seems fitting to write about…

When I was a teenager,  one of my favorite school activities was Destination Imagination.  If you’re not familiar, it’s a program based in creative problem solving and STEAM-based learning (though I did it way back before “STEAM” was what it was called…).  My friends and I would receive a Challenge and create the entire solution…