Today was the Regional Tournament for Odyssey of the Mind in the Central Valley. I am so proud of this team! They have worked together so hard this year and they have accomplished so much! (See previous post)This morning we drove down to Hanford High School. The team was competing in Division II, Problem 4 - Shock Waves this year and there were two other teams that we were competing against. The kids went to their Spontaneous competition first. They were given a verbal and non-verbal problem to work out as a team. They said that they did well on the verbal and terrible on the non-verbal (they are not allowed to discuss the problems until after World Finals). They had to weigh in at noon and then wait until 4:00pm to present their Long-Term Problem - their structure.
The kids did their skit and then they started putting weights on. They did a great job, but the crusher board started to lean, and it created an uneven weight dispersement. The structure held 206.8 pounds! (That is a fantastic weight, but disappointing, as the one they tested the day before held 283 pounds!) The other teams only held 188 and 66 pounds. We weren't celebrating yet, however, because they still had to add in the points from the Spontaneous competition, and Style (how they presented their over-all problem, including the skit, costumes, sound effects, team poster, etc.).
At the Awards Ceremony we were thrilled when they called out the Division II, Problem 4 - Shock Waves first place winner was Liberty Intermediate!!! The kids were so excited! They had huge smiles on their faces and were hugging each other as they ran down to get their gold medals! We got the scores back and they had even won the Spontaneous portion, even though they thought they had done so poorly. This team is AWESOME!!!Now they are going on to the State Finals in Brentwood, CA on April 4th!
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