April 01, 2009
Bowling
Green, Ky. - More than 60 teams from schools in Bell, Boone, Calloway, Campbell Fleming, Henry, Jefferson, Kenton, Knox, Lincoln, McCracken, Oldham, Trigg, Warren and Whitley counties will compete in the Odyssey of the Mind state tournament April 18 at Western Kentucky University.
Students in elementary, middle and high school divisions will be competing for spots in the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals on May 27-30 at Iowa State University. The state tournament begins at 8 a.m. with events held at Diddle Arena, Tate Page Hall and Mass Media and Technology Hall.
Each team in the state tournament will present up to an eight-minute skit to show their solution to one of five competitive problems. The problems include the following: building vehicles for a NASA-sponsored “Earth Trek” Problem; humorous performances involving a mechanical animal creature and its “Teach Yer Creature”; a Classic problem involving “The Lost Labor of Heracles”; building structures weighing 18 grams (approximately the weight of two paper clips) that can handle “Shock Waves” while weights are placed on them; and a team-created “Superstition” with a humorous skit that explains how the superstition came to be.
The teams’ final score is a combination of their Long Term Solution, style points (which is part of their skit) and a Spontaneous Problem. The top two teams in each division will advance to the World Finals where teams from across the United States and more than 20 countries will compete.
For information, contact Joan Coates, Kentucky Odyssey of the Mind Association Director, at (859) 384-3821 or kyodyssey@fuse.net
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