Five teams from Northampton County Public Schools competed at the Tidewater Region 6 Odyssey of the Mind Tournament at Menchville High School this past weekend. As a super regional event, it featured teams from multiple regions and provided a preview of the upcoming state tournament. Our teams competed in Problem 3: “Cooking with Books,” where they created a performance inspired by classic literature, and Problem 5: “AstronOMical Odyssey,” which involved crafting a humorous story about constellations. Despite weather challenges impacting preparation, all teams gave outstanding performances!
All 5 of our teams did a absolutely wonderful job this year and gave wonderful performances, especially despite the amount of snow days we have had during what is our prop building months. First, our youngest members from Kiptopeke Elementary with students in grade 3rd and 4th competed in Division 1 of Problem 3 coached by Ms. Taylor Roth. These students gave a great performance and we are proud of some of the newest members of Odyssey and the future of successful teams. This team placed 5th in the Tidewater Region.
Pictured Left to Right: Faith Hurley, Kylie Gillespie, Kenneth Owens, Kennedy Young, Coach Taylor Roth, Satori Ahlquist, Isabella Lewis, Krown Smith
The second team to compete from Kiptopeke in Problem 3 but in Division 2 was coached by Ms. Williamson. This team is made up of 5th and 6th graders competing at the middle school level. This team finished 3rd in the Tidewater Region.
Pictured Left to Right: Elijah Hinman, Amaya Clayton, Coach Danielle Williamson, Korrie Taylor, Hailey Parker, Erilyn Vatis
Our third team to compete, also in Division 2 but in Problem 5, was coached by a Northampton HS OMer Alum turned coach, Keysan Brittingham was the team from Northampton MS with a member from Occohannock Elementary. These students did well learning from a recent former OMer and took home 3rd place in the Tidewater Region.
Pictured Left to Right: Elizabeth Irminger, Coach Keysan Brittingham, Adrian Perez, Madilyn Rosen, Lizbeth GasparReyes, Madeline Collins
Rounding out the day were the two teams from Northampton HS coached by Mr. Ford. These teams did a wonderful job and each took home first place in their respective problems as regional champions and also were the highest teams in any region.
Problem 3 Team pictured left to right: Raul Rodriguez, Anna Temich, Garrett Fisher, Billy Pike, Yahzara Gholson, Candy Castaneda Cova, Coach Brad Ford
Problem 5 Team pictured left to right: Mariam Mehdi, Maliyah Jones, Kayla Hicks, Steven Cardoza, Kiera Budenos, Autumn Buckley. Coach Brad Ford
Our two high school teams will now move on to the state tournament which will be held at Menchville HS in Newport News on April 26th and will hopefully be crowned state champions for the third year in a row and earn a chance to represent Virginia at the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals.