House Resolution 1058 US House of Representatives

TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW!
GET DESTINATION IMAGINATION RECOGNIZED
SUPPORT HOUSE RESOLUTION 1058


This past week, U.S. Rep. Mike Ross of Arkansas introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that recognizes the positive effects Destination ImagiNation has had on everyone who has taken part in DI programs over the past 25 years.

It is a HUGE accomplishment for DI just to get the resolution introduced. It will be quite something else to get it passed in Congress!

There is only one way we will make that happen – if every DI participant contacts their Congressman to ask him or her to be a cosponsor of House Resolution (H.Res) 1058.

Please take a few minutes to call, email or write to your Congressman. The message is simple, Please COSPONSOR and pass H.Res. 1058.

If you don’t know who your Congressman is or how to contact them, you can start by entering your zip+4 in the upper corner of www.house.gov. If you need to look up your zip+4, use the website http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp.

You will find through the www.house.gov website a link to your Congressman’s website. That site will often include a form to send an email, an email address or a phone number to the Congressman’s local and Washington, DC offices. Contacting the office using any of those methods is fine.


[Below is a draft of the letter you can use to contact your Congressman:]

I am a participant/parent/team manger of the Destination ImagiNation program in ____________
(city/town, state) and I am writing to ask you to cosponsor and pass H.Res. 1058 which recognizes the designation of the week of May 19 as Designation ImagiNation Week.

Destination ImagiNation Inc. (DI), a 501(c)(3), is the world's largest creativity, teamwork and problem solving program with approximately 250,000 participants and 35,000 volunteers from 50 States and over 40 countries.

DI will hold its annual Global Finals Competition May 21-24, 2008 bringing some 18,000 participants and volunteers together from around the world at the University of Tennessee.

Destination ImagiNation is a community-based, school-friendly program dedicated to promoting critical life skills of critical thinking, teamwork, time management and problem solving. It gives children ranging in age from 4 through college a place to learn how to apply their individual knowledge and skills to solve challenges as they work cooperatively within a team, pushing the limits of their imaginations.

DI provides a positive and friendly environment for participants to explore their own unlimited creativity and to take creative risks in competition with themselves, rather than with others. The organization was developed by parents, teachers, team managers (people who coach teams),appraisers (people who evaluate team solutions), regional directors, affiliate directors, and others who have the desire to help create the best possible, creative, problem-solving program for teams of up to 7 students.

The Resolution acknowledges that this year marks the 25th anniversary of Destination ImagiNation's problem solving programs, and that Destination ImagiNation has operated as a nonprofit volunteer driven organization providing some 5,000,000 students with the skills needed to be successful.

For more information, please visit www.destinationimagination.org.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,