Greenwich Students To Compete In CT Odyssey Of The Mind Tournament

GREENWICH, CT — Hundreds of students from across the state of Connecticut will come together Saturday at Southern Connecticut State University for the 2023 Odyssey of the Mind Connecticut Tournament.

Students in grades kindergarten through 12th grade will be competing for an invitation to the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals, being held at Michigan State University this May, according to a news release from CT Odyssey of the Mind.

The event will begin at 8 a.m. with teams representing a number of communities in Connecticut, including:

• Bethel
• Brookfield
• Fairfield
• Greenwich
• Hamden
• New Canaan
• Hebron
• Moodus
• Ridgefield
• Stamford
• Southport
• Trumbull
• West Hartford
• Weston

Odyssey of the Mind is an international educational program whose mission is to provide creative problem-solving opportunities for students from kindergarten through college. Through solving open-ended problems, students develop creative-thinking skills that can be applied to real-life situations, according to CT Odyssey of the Mind.

Teams from throughout the U.S. and more than 20 other countries participate in the program.

Teams will come to the SCSU campus with intricate costumes, original stage designs and innovative inventions — all part of solving an Odyssey problem. All problem solutions are judged on creativity and risk-taking.

Through the Odyssey of the Mind program, students learn to apply their creativity to problem-solving. Teams also learn how to manage time and money, how to share ideas and negotiate with one another, and to perform in front of an audience. Because the problems provide for divergent solutions students incorporate their knowledge and interests into their solutions such as math, history, art, music, science, acrobatics, athletics, robotics, and anything else a child can imagine and enjoy.

More information, including a complete tournament schedule, is available here.