Angela has served as a judge for Problem 2 in recent years and fell in love with the program during her first training. She works in corporate learning and development and enjoys seeing the impact this OOTM has on her own son, soon to be 5th grader at Adobe Bluffs, as well as the parents, coaches and judges. Angela is looking forward to meeting and working with this community.
Each team has a judge/official volunteer.
Make a difference by volunteering to coach a team of incredibly creative thinkers.
Odyssey of the Mind is an international educational program that provides creative problem-solving opportunities for students from kindergarten through college. Team members apply their creativity to solve problems that range from building mechanical devices to presenting their own interpretation of literary classics. They then bring their solutions to competition on the local, state, and World level. Thousands of teams from throughout the U.S. and from about 25 other countries participate in the program.
“Creative thinking, in its purest form, is thinking outside the lines of “conventional” reasoning. When considering this, it should be no huge shock that a messy room containing items misplaced from their “conventional” locations would promote creativity. ” (Elite Daily
Odyssey is Offering TWO Membership Options for the 2021-2022 season!
This season Odyssey of the Mind HQ is excited to announce that there is now TWO memberships that groups can pick from. Choose the one that fits your groups situation.
Traditional Membership
This membership allows for one team per problem and division as qualified and no limit on primary teams. At this time in SoCal, Regional and State Association Tournaments will be held in-person. This may change if current health and safety conditions do not allow. Teams can advance to an in-person State tournament if qualified and then onto World Finals if qualified, if safe and legal. If not deemed safe and legal, an online World Finals will be provided for the Traditional memberships.
Single Traditional Membership – $135 (prior to October 15th. After October 15th the membership dues increases to $290) (There are different levels of cost based on number of memberships purchased.)
and you must be sponsored by:
- Individual Schools
- More than 1 School Sharing Principal -register in school district name
- Homeschools
- Community Groups
- College/University
Virtual Membership
This membership will allow anyone, to form one team of up to 7 team members to compete in a Virtual online competition*. The team will select problem 2, problem 3, or primary and the division will be assigned as usual using the grade levels of the team members. Team members DO NOT have to attend the same school, but every team member needs to be a student. These teams will attend a HQ run virtual tournament and have the opportunity to advance to the HQ run Virtual World Finals.
Single Team Virtual Membership – $125 (prior to October 15th. After October 15th the membership fees increases to $225)
Problem Synopsis
Take a look at the creative challenges waiting for teams for the 2021-22 Season.
Problems this year have been designed for both Traditional Membership Tournaments, and Virtual Tournaments.
