Odyssey of the Mind is a creative problem-solving competition for students from K-12 to college. Through solving open-ended problems, students develop creative-thinking skills that can be applied to real-life situations. Both Happy Valley teams took 1st place in their respective State level competitions and will be joining teams from throughout the U.S. and more than 20 other countries. "Jungle Bloke" and "Ancient Egypt" teams of the world, you are hereby put on notice: we're coming to Iowa.
We have 14 kids from 12 families, 4 coaches and equipment to transport and house for almost a week in Ames, Iowa. Each family is going to be paying about a minimum of $1,200 per child plus the coaches' expenses. We've set our fund raising goal at $20,000 to help defray the costs of this endeavor. On top of that are mounting expenses for transport and housing of supporting parents and siblings, it's not difficult to imagine this becoming an expensive proposition!
Wondering what it will be like to arrive in Ames? It might look a lot like this.
Both of our Odyssey of the Mind teams, their coaches and families will be in there, almost 1900 miles away from home, in less than four weeks. Please help our teams bring another victory home to Happy Valley by donating to the Parent Club's fund to benefit the teams. For more visions of Ames, check out this cluster on flickr!
posted by Omer @ 10:54 PM
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