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Pleasant Hill middle schoolers win first place at Hillsboro Destination Imagination competition

by George Custer | Apr 19, 2023 | Communities, Dexter/Pleasant Hill, Front Page

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The DI team of Joanna Holley, Aria Verma, Trevor Olson, Jackson Schack with their golf ball roller coaster.

By JOAN HLADKY/for The Herald  — Pleasant Hill’s Middle School Destination Imagination (DI) team placed first in their challenge and division in the Affiliate DI Tournament in Hillsboro on March 18.

With that award and trophy came an invitation to the DI Global Finals in Kansas City, Missouri,  in May. This event has up to 14,000 teams from all over the world.

Destination Imagination is one of the world’s largest problem solving and creativity programs for students in grades K-12. Students have a choice of six challenges to solve. This team chose “Thrill Ride,” an engineering challenge for which they built a roller coaster for a golf ball.

The team’s main fundraiser to earn money to go to Kansas City is a Plant Sale to be held on April 29th.  The sale will be in the Pleasant Hill Elementary School parking lot on Highway 58. The sale features unusual and traditional plants, shrubs, and trees including native plants and blueberries from a wide variety of local nurseries.

For further information, contact Joan Hladky @ [email protected] 

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George Custer lives in Oakridge with his wife Sayre. George is a former smokejumper from his hometown of Cave Junction, a former captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. and ran a construction company in Southern California. George assumed the volunteer duties as the Editor of the Highway 58 Herald in 2022. He loves riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle, building all things wood, and playing drums on the weekends in his office.

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