New Canaan Students To Compete In CT Odyssey Of The Mind Tournament

NEW CANAAN, CT — Hundreds of students from across Connecticut will come together Saturday at Southern Connecticut State University for the 2023 Odyssey of the Mind Connecticut Tournament, including students from New Canaan.

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

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 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 Connecticut 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.