River Oaks Elementary
Odyssey Team Are World Champions
The Caplan team at World Finals
The Odyssey of the
Mind Caplan team from River Oaks Elementary school have done Texas
proud! They participated in the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals at the
University of Maryland over the Memorial Day weekend (May 29 to June 2,
2004) and
placed second in
Fantastic Art, Division 1, beating 56 other teams from numerous
other states as well as foreign countries like Hong Kong, Canada,
and Singapore. In addition, they placed 18th out of 44 teams in Balancing Act,
Division 1. It was a tremendous finish to a year of spectacular creativity
and hours and hours
of hard work. The team arrived home in
Houston on Wednesday, June 2 to be greeted by a Channel 2 KPRC TV crew and
were featured on the 10:00 p.m. Night Beat news that evening.
Click on this link to go to the video clip of the news item (goes to KPRC
web site).
Another ROE team, the Long team, also represented Texas at the World Finals,
competing in the Envirover problem and placing 22nd. out of over 40 teams.
At World Finals, both ROE teams joined
more than 700 other teams
from throughout the U.S. and from about 20 other countries e.g. Canada,
China, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Poland, Singapore and Uzbekistan for the
competition. All in all, fifteen thousand people attended World Finals,
including team members, volunteers, coaches, parents, educators and other
supporters.
The Long Team headed to World Finals in Envirover problem
For photos from the Regional Tournament on April 3, 2004,
click here.
Questions? Email Carolyn Caplan at
ccaplan@houston.rr.com. For more
information about OM, visit their website,
www.odysseyofthemind.com
