Matt Feller as rock and roll starfish Sola during our performance.
On Sunday June 1st the Voorheesville Elementary School’s Odyssey of the Mind Team competed against teams from South Korea, Germany, and across the United States in the Odyssey of the Mind World 2008 Finals at the University of Maryland in College Park Maryland. Team members include fifth graders: Matt Feller; Wolfie Gehring; Ben McKay; Braeden Morrison; Sarah Murray; Lydia Parker; and Alex Relyea. Jean Mckay is the team’s coach. Parent chaperones accompanying the team are Susan Feller, Cindy Morrison, Donna Parker, Wendy Relyea, Debbie Murray, and Laurie Ten Eyck. Family members Andrew Feller, Beth Mattfeld, Dieter Gehring, Casey Morrison, Jack Murray and Scott Murray were are also in attendance.
Braeden Morrison as rock and roll starfish Luna with a double neck guitar. Nice hats guys!
The performance went extremely well and the judges, who smiled and laughed throughout the eight-minute show, were obviously impressed as was the audience. The show was also watched by Voorheesville’s Odyssey Buddy team from Singapore who were very supportive thought the performance was great.
The team was happy with their performance although they felt somewhat hindered by the size of the stage which was significantly smaller than the stages they had performed on at the Regional and State competitions and made operating behind the scenes a challenge.
After the performance the team was interviewed by reporter Andrew Schotz for The Altamont Enterprise. Andrew used to work full-time for the Enterprise. He now lives in Maryland and is a reporter for a Maryland paper. He will file his story this week and you will be able to read it in the June 5th edition of The Altamont Enterprise.
Lydia Parker as the Muse of Astronomy Urania.
On Monday, June 2nd at 8 a.m. the team competed in the spontaneous problem solving finals. They team found the problem a challenge to but were satisfied that they did their very best. Coach McKay was pleased the kids were met with such a challenge as she wants them to learn that Worlds is a tough competition.
The back of the t shirt of one of the judges at our performance.
Ben Mckay as Top Hat, playing the flute to indicate one of the moments of inspiration
during our show.
The show.
Wolfie Gehring (Van Gogh), Braeden Morrison (Luna) and Sarah Murray (Stellar).
Sarah Murray as Stellar, Alex Relyea as Claudia and Wolfie Gehring as Van Gogh.
Alex Relyea as Claudia the girl surfer dude who gets Van Gogh to go to the beach.
Van Gogh shows off his “dark” painting.
1 comment:
nice job
jack
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