Creativity Festival

This is part of the NASA booth at the Creativity Festival.

Later that morning the team volunteered in the New York State booth at the Odyssey of the Mind Creativity Festival. The game run by New York State involved operating a train with a bicycle pump and using a beaver puppet to shoot a ping pong ball into the train. When they are done volunteering they visited booths run by other states and countries and participate in activities such as origami at Hong Kong’s booth, moving a lizard through a maze at Arizona’s booth, group walking on planks with ropes at Delaware’s booth and Swat a Maine Mosquito.

They will visit the NASA exhibit where they will be able to build straw rockets, sun potters and UV detectors as well as learn about the Hubble Telescope and the Goddard Space Station. The team will also have the opportunity to view the NSA E-Theater Presentation where they will view images of the Earth, the sun and satellites. NASA is a major financial supporter of the Odyssey of the Mind because they need kids to learn how to think out of the box to solve problems as a team so that they can grow up to be the kind of thinkers they need to solve problems for their programs. Later in the day the team will go to the International Festival.

This is a picture of us working at the New York State booth at the Creativity Festival.

Watch out for the ping pong ball that is going to shoot out of the mouth of that beaver. Sometimes the older kids shot at us instead of us at the train.

Wolfie golfs while Matt looks concerned.

Lots of little Omers, the Odyssey mascots.