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Clover Crushers Needs Your Help!
Shields Elementary students, Dylan Baker, Isaac Terhune, Krystina Allen, Ashlyn Andrew, Nevie Hagen, Aiden Block, & Bailey Fletcher need your help to send them to the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals in Michigan. They have their biggest challenge yet of raising more than $10,000, which will go entirely to registration, travel, lodging and meals.
The students formed their Odyssey of the Mind Team in October, 2014 and placed First in the Ocean Region Competition and Second in the Delaware State Finals, thus advancing to the World Finals in Michigan. They have been working every week, twice a week since October to create and perfect a solution to their Odyssey problem – Lose Your Marbles.
“Team Clover Crushers” as they call themselves had to design, build, and test a structure that will balance and support as much weight as possible and create a performance that incorporated the “losing your marbles” theme.
The Structure: The structure had to weigh less than 18-grams and be at least 8” tall made only of 1/8” x 1/8” thick balsa wood and glue. It also had to hold 5-marbles that would be released after each weight by removing a piece of the structure in its entirety by means of a team created device. The device the team created was a classic trebuchet (a catapult propelled by a counterweight) connected to a wooden arm that grabbed the structure and sent a piece flying into the audience.
The Performance: While the structure is being loaded and the marbles are being released, the team had to perform a skit that incorporated the “Lose Your Marbles” theme. Their performance took place “The Night Before St. Patricks Day”, with a mom trying to calm her very excited three kids down as they waited for the Leprechaun to deliver them presents. Each time the Mom would read an excerpt from their nighttime story, each kid would do something that would make the mom and siblings “Lose Their Marbles”. The performance concludes with the Leprechaun leaving a trap for the kids and got so excited by his success that he couldn’t help but perform an Irish Jig.
The structural design and construction, team created device, performance, all of the props and everything else had to be created and completed entirely by the team ONLY. All of this had to be done on a mere $145 budget.
Over 800 teams from around the world will compete in the four day Odyssey of the Mind World Finals. The competition emphasizes creativity and teamwork and has grown into the largest international creative problem-solving competition worldwide.
In order to get Team Clover Crushers to Michigan, it’s going to take $10,000. Unfortunately it’s not cheap to transport all of the team’s performance props to Michigan, travel for all of the team members, and lodging and meals during the 4-day event. We are anticipating on raising $1,500 through bake sales, car washes, restaurant nights, and other specialty fundraising events while another $4,500 through the extreme generosity of our local businesses and community organizations. That leaves us with another $4,000 to go to reach our $10,000 mark. We need your help! Any donation of $20, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford will make all of the difference. It not only would get this team to Michigan but would make their performance better knowing that their family, friends, and community support them in this endeavor.
Odyssey of the Mind has truly made this team come together, work as a team, and increase their ability to solve problems in an innovative and creative manner. It has been, and with your support, will continue to be a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Thank you for your words of support and we are extremely appreciative of any help you can provide to show the World what these 7-kids from Lewes can do!!
Thank you – Team Clover Crushers.
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