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2014 Long-Term Problem Synopses

The 2014 Long-Term problem synopses are now available at OdysseyoftheMind.com. Have a look at this year’s exciting long-term problems!

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2013 Island Tournament Photos

Check out photographs taken during our 2013 regional tournament on March 2, 2013.

More photos to come. Please share your photos with us by email to keysodyssey@yahoo.com.

Remember to include the name of the school and the long-term problem information with your photos. Thank you.

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2013 Regional Tournament

Congratulations to all teams that participated in the 2013 Island regional tournament on March 2, 2013 at Coral Shores High School.

Winners will go on to represent the Island region in the state finals at the University of Central Florida on April 6, 2013.

Tournament Results:

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State Registration

Once your organization has purchased a membership the coordinator should register the teams on the Florida Odyssey website. Registration is open as of September.

  • Returning members should use the same user name and password as last year.
  • New members must create an account in the system.

2013 Long-Term Problem Synopses

The Long-Term problem synopses are now available at OdysseyoftheMind.com. Have a look at this year’s exciting long-term problems!

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KeysOdyssey.com

Welcome to KeysOdyssey.com, the online home of the Island region. Check back here throughout the year to get more information about Odyssey of the Mind in the Florida Keys.

Region Merger
The Island region has merged with the Tropical region in Miami-Dade County.

Monroe County memberships will compete as part of the Tropical region starting in the 2021 tournament year.

KeysOdyssey.com will continue to be updated but visitors are also encouraged to visit tropicalodyssey.org.

Getting Started
Register your school or organization at OdysseyoftheMind.com

2012 Island Regional Tournament Photos

 More photos to come. Please share your photos with us by email to keysodyssey@yahoo.com.
Remember to include the name of the school and the long-term problem information with your photos. Thank you.

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2012 Regional Tournament

Congratulations to all teams that participated in the 2012 Island regional tournament on March 10, 2012 at Coral Shores High School.

Tournament Results:

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Our New Website!

Welcome to our new website. Check back here throughout the year to get more information about Odyssey of the Mind in the Florida Keys.

Register your school or organization at OdysseyoftheMind.com

2012 Long-Term Problem Synopses

2011-2012 Long-Term Problem Synopses

Problem 1: Ooh-Motional Vehicle

The problem requires teams to design, build, and drive a vehicle that will travel a course where it will encounter three different situations. The vehicle will display a different human emotion for each encounter and one will cause it to travel in reverse. The team will create a theme for the presentation that incorporates the vehicle and the different emotions. The emphases will be on the technical risk-taking and creativity of the vehicle’s engineering for travel and change of emotional appearance.
Divisions I, II, & III
Cost limit: $145 USD.

Problem 2: Weird Science

The team will create and present a performance about a team of scientists on an expedition to uncover the cause of mysterious events. The team will select the location of the expedition from NASA Earth Observatory Photographs . The scientists will collect two samples and will report on their findings. The performance will also include a technical representation of the mysterious events, a moving backdrop that helps portray traveling, and a team-created device that the scientists use on the expedition.
Divisions I, II, III, & IV
Cost limit: $145 USD.
Sponsored by NASA.

Problem 3: To Be or Not To Be

In this Classics problem, teams will put a musical theatre spin on one of William Shakespeare’s most famous lines: “To Be Or Not To Be.” Hamlet, the title character, ponders this question and realizes that the easy way out is not always the correct choice. An original “Hamlet” character will face a team-created dilemma. Unlike Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the team’s character will take the easy way out only to discover that it was the wrong choice. Teams will also incorporate a character that portrays Hamlet’s conscience, a creative scene change, a creative costume change, and use of a “trap door.” A portion of the performance will include musical theatre elements.
Divisions I, II, III & IV
Cost limit: $125 USD.

Problem 4: You Make the Call

For this problem, teams will design and build a structure made of only balsa wood and glue that will balance and support as much weight as possible. The structure may have a maximum weight of 9 grams and will receive 2 times the weight held, or 12 grams and receive 1 ½ times the weight held, or 15 grams and receive the actual weight held. The testing of the structure will be presented in a performance that includes mathematics in its theme.
Divisions I, II, III & IV
Cost limit: $145 USD.

Problem 5: Odyssey Angels

The team will create and present a performance where a group of students travel throughout one or more team-created places where they encounter negative situations. These “Odyssey Angels” change what they find and turn them into positive situations. On their journey, they help two individuals with different problems and help save an entire community from a bad situation. One Odyssey Angel cannot speak, and another has a special team-created power.
Divisions I, II, III & IV
Cost limit: $125 USD.

Primary: Hide and Peek

The team is to create a device that uncovers three surprise objects by lifting a team-decorated container off of each of them from 5, 8 and 10 feet away. The containers may be raised at any time, in any order, and may be raised simultaneously. The demonstration of the solution will be presented during a performance that integrates raising the containers and the surprise objects in its theme. There will be a narrator character and a setting.
Grades K-2
Cost limit: $125 USD.

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