Maharishi School has a rich history of success at the Destination Imagination creative problem solving competitions, and this year they won the fifth and ninth place awards.

Maharishi School students successful in world creativity competition
by Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, The Review and Maharishi School website
17 June 2015

Five Maharishi School Teams recently competed in an international creativity competition in Knoxville, Tennessee, with one team taking a fifth-place award and others finishing as high as ninth and 15th.

Competing against approximately 60 other teams in the Improv Games challenge, the Maharishi Upper School team of Tomas Bousquet, Nathaniel Zhu, Marcus Schoenfeld, Caleb Mullenneaux, and Jordan Town showed their skill at improvisation and earned fifth place.

This is just a naturally funny, very coherent, spontaneously creative group,” said DI program director Mark Wilkins, describing how the team met the challenge of improvisational acting on a very large stage. Wilkins was also the team manager for this group.

“Improvisation is actually better in a more intimate setting, but our team had a stage at Global Finals probably ten times larger than our school auditorium stage. Our guys were dwarfed but physically used the whole stage. They became an avalanche that rolled across the stage. One member became a boat that they all sailed away on.”

The students were competing in Destination Imagination, a program that teaches the creative process, from imagination to innovation. It encourages teams of students to have fun, take risks, focus, and frame challenges while incorporating science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the arts.

The five Maharishi School teams won first place in the state competition, qualifying them to participate in the world competition in Knoxville.

Mr. Wilkins felt it was a good learning experience for them, though. “Being there will prepare them for next year and give them a better competitive edge.”

Mr. Wilkins summed up his pride of the effort and success of the school’s teams by saying, “All the teams had their best performances of the year at Global Finals.” Next year’s program will begin in September.

"At Maharishi School we have a rich history of success at creative problem solving competitions," said Destination Imagination director Mark Wilkins.

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