2024/25 Season News

lucascny2
22 hours ago
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A wrap up of news from the 2024/25 Odyssey season in New York. Fantastic results for Team NY at the recent World Finals in East Lansing MI, photos from WF 2025, a last call for pin designs and a peek at the recently released synopses for next year's Long-Term Problems.

New York has great success at World Finals

What a fantastic year for Team New York, with more world champions (4) than any other association and a record 13 top 6 finishes. WOW!

The OM-Mazing Race Div II

2nd iPad Rehab Microsoldering, Honeoye Falls, NY

5th Warwick Valley Middle School, Warwick, NY

The OM-Mazing Race Div III

1st Geneseo Middle/High School, Geneseo, NY

3rd Warwick Valley High School, Warwick, NY

Mech-Animal Sidekick Div I

1st Warwick Valley Middle School, Warwick, NY

Mech-Animal Sidekick Div III

5th Broadalbin-Perth Jr/Sr High School, Broadalbin, NY

Cooking with Books Div I

1st Long Beach Elementary School, Long Beach, NY

Cooking with Books Div II

4th Goshen Middle School, Goshen, NY

Cooking with Books Div III

1st Goshen High School, Goshen, NY

4th Hoosic Valley High School, Schaghticoke, NY

AstronOMical Odyssey! Div II

3rd Long Beach Middle School, Lido Boulevard, NY

6th Vestal Middle School, Vestal, NY

AstronOMical Odyssey! Div III

6th Warwick Valley High School, Warwick, NY

AND

Carly Seligman from Goshen NY won an OMER's Award

Problem 3: Classics… Cooking with Books Division III

Carly Seligman has been an OMer for 7 years. She exemplifies how Odyssey can be life-changing. When she started, she overcame her stage-fright by playing the flute to “speak”. As time went on, Carly added very minor speaking roles, each a step out of her shell. This year, her last year performing on the OM stage, for the first time, she played a scored lead role, as Alice. She proudly and loudly sang and danced the whole performance, a huge accomplishment and triumph over her history of stage-fright! Odyssey of the Mind has given her a voice. Carly already has plans to become a coach for younger kids during her senior year and give back to the kids in her community, to share with them what OM has taught her.

AND

New York won "Most Creative Booth"

at the Creativity Festival.

Thanks to Melissa and Tim Talma for coming up with a tricky, informative, artistic and innovative giant maze game that had OMers lining up to try their luck.