NExT MAGELLAN AWARD

This award recognizes those students who, over the years, have completed solutions to challenges in each of the 6 competitive categories.  Named after Ferdinand Magellan, who is famous for circumnavigating the globe, it reflects an individual student’s efforts to travel to all of the Destinations in DI.

This is an individual award, not a team award. Team members may qualify by competing on multiple teams over the years.

The different types of challenges are:

• Technical

• Scientific

• Fine Art

• Improvisational

• Engineering

• Service Learning

​Challenge history for each type of Challenge may be viewed here.

The following are the rules for qualifying for the Magellan Award:

• The current year’s Challenges may be included as qualifying Challenges, as long as the team member’s team participates at this year’s regional tournament

The application must be received by February 10.

• Multiple Challenge solutions per year are allowed. As of the 2020-21 season, only 2 challenges per year will be considered for this award.

• Qualifying Challenge solutions may be submitted at the EL, ML and SL levels.



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