Odyssey of the Mind
On March 28, students on two Odyssey of the Mind teams competed in the State Competition in Riverside. Over 300 teams from across California attended the event and were separated into three divisions based on grade level. From there, each team was grouped with other teams based on which of six “problems” they chose to solve.
Freshmen Alyssa Boedigheimer, Michael Moss, Rebekah Daniel, Jolie Rafelson, Jeremy Stein, Max Oliver, and Emma Halseth comprised a team who chose to take on problem 5: Silent Movie. Months of work went into creating an eight-minute skit which featured a “humourous villain” and other characters who all had to communicate their message through acting, music, and subtitles, without speaking. “We got fifth place at state out of 11 (teams) which was actually pretty good,” Moss said. “I think we placed exactly where we should have.”
Sophomores Josh Rose, Conrad Jones, Steven Owens, Dillon Penix, Bennett Phan, and Alex Meinhof made up the second team sent by NPHS. They decided to solve problem 3: Pandora’s Box. The students were required to create a skit which displayed a video game version of the Greek myth, with team members acting as the characters from the myth. Their skit placed first out of all the teams who solved problem 3, which advances them to the World Finals at Michigan State University in May.
