Minnesota Students Head for World Competition

April 23, 2001. Cloquet, MN.

Three teams from Queen of Peace School, Cloquet, Minnesota, won the regional Destination ImagiNation competition and went to the Minnesota State finals. One of the teams emerged as a first place winner and will be headed for the World Final Competition in Knoxville, TN May 23-25, 2001.

Sister Colleen Kimbro, FSE, Principal of Queen of Peace School, is proud of all the students who entered the competition, and is also not surprised that one team will be going to the finals. "Our students are very creative and this competition gives them the opportunity to show it. They learn to work together and to stretch their imaginations to come up with ingenious solutions to complex problems."

Destination ImagiNation is an international organization for kindergarten through college students that teaches life skills and expanding imaginations through team-based creative problem solving. Each year the group's affiliates sponsor regional, state and world competitions to let children demonstrate their creative problem solving skills.

Over the past 14 years, Queen of Peace teams have developed a tradition of winning in the competitions.