Hello Judges,

Well, it’s time for training.  Saturday, January 25th is the training at Saint Elmo Gifted School in Columbus.  If you are a new judge, we will start check-in at 8:30 with your first session at 9:00.  Check-in for experienced judges starts at 9:30 with your general session at 10:05.  Your session with your problem captain starts at 10:30. We will finish between 2:00 and 2:30; it depends on your problem captain.

Saturday, February 1st is the training at Trickum Middle School in Lilburn.  The schedule will be the same.

Maps to each training site is on the front quick links section of our website, www.georgiaodyssey.org/home/maps

I will send out another reminder next week before the Trickum training.  If you attend the Saint Elmo training, just ignore the next email.

Step one for check-in is to confirm your information, correct anything wrong, and get your judging assignment.  Proceed to the table with your tournament schedule and check-in with the Board member at the table.  Sign in by your name and collect a problem book. 

Please don’t forget your lunch or snack.  We will not have time to leave for lunch.  Saint Elmo is a new site for us, so I am not sure if we can eat in the classroom or if we must take a scheduled lunch break in the cafeteria as we do at Trickum.

I look forward to seeing you in the near future.  Thank you for volunteering.

Pat Rhodes

State Judging Coordinator

Georgia Odyssey of the Mind    

Coaches and competitors,

There is still space available to join our group of experienced volunteers for some spontaneous practice.  This is a great opportunity to gain exposure to competition ready problems and judges.   The problems will challenge all age groups and each problem has a very different set of challenges to solve it.

Spontaneous is a large scoring component and teams that regularly practice solving problems tend to do much better on competition day.   We offer these workshops to help coaches and teams prepare for competition day and the challenges that are ahead of them.

Results from the State tournament are now located in the tournaments section under State Finals.

Congratulations to all teams who participated. It was a wonderful day full of creativity and we look forward to seeing everyone next year!

The website now includes State Finals tournament related:

• downloadable participation certificates (coaches corner)
• Results (under Tournaments)
• photos from the day (coaches corner)*

*To access all of this content, you must login via the coaches login using membership number(username) and zip code(password).*

We are excited to announce for the Metro Atlanta tournament we have several Food Trucks that will be on the beautiful Marist Campus providing food during the day. Please support these local business owners that are supporting our tournament by spending their day making delicious food.

The ‘food court’ will consist of the following vendors: (published menus are available by clicking on the name of each)

1. Big C’s Chicago Kitchen (breakfast & lunch)
2. Gezzo’s West Coast Burritos (Lunch)
3. GyroChef (Lunch)
4. Repicci’s Italian Ice & Gelato (afternoon treats).

GEORGIA ODYSSEY TOURNAMENT PROGRAM

Georgia Odyssey is excited to offer a new tournament program book this year. This new and improved program gives you the opportunity to purchase an ad so you can send a special message to your team or an individual. It is also a great way to promote your local business. Ads will be full color and can have a maximum of 25 words.

There are two opportunities purchase space in the program.

1. Regional Tournaments: Each ad purchased for a regional tournament will appear in all three regional programs! Ads must be purchased by February 2, 2019.

2. State Finals: Each ad purchased for state finals will be included the state finals program. Ads must be purchased by March 16, 2019.

Ads will be purchased and uploaded through the website using the link below. You can upload a fully designed ad or our talented designer can assist you in creating one.

For questions please contact Janie at janie@georgiaodyssey.org

**All orders must be placed online***

****Click the link below to order an ad!***

ATTENTION
Important Announcement Regarding the In Depth Workshop!

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the session for Problem 5: Opposites Distract is cancelled for the In Depth workshop on Saturday December 1. Problem Captains Tori and Amy would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Coaches, please email any questions you have to the problem captains at problem5@georgiaodyssey.org. Tori and Amy will be more than happy to assist you with any questions you have regarding the problem and the clarification process.

Finally, feel free to reach out to Janie, our coaches mentor, for any and all questions you have about coaching in general. She can be reached by emailing coaches@georgiaodyssey.org.

Coaches,

We are excited to be hosting the In-depth workshop this coming weekend on December 1st. The workshop will be from 1pm to about 4pm at Trickum Middle School. If you haven’t already signed up, please be sure to do so by navigating to registration –> in depth workshop and filling out the simple registration form. Please arrive early to find parking and get checked in. There will be a new coaches workshop going on in the morning that all new coaches are strongly encouraged to attend.

We hope to see everyone there! All of our problem captains are very excited to be discussing the problems with coaches and preparing teams for this season.

Please remember, absolutely no competitors or persons under the age of 18 are allowed at the in depth workshop.

Georgia Odyssey and all of our teams are in Ames, Iowa for an exciting time at World Finals. We’d like to say good luck and congratulations to all of our teams that are participating in World Finals! It’s going to be an exciting and intense couple of days. We have no doubt that our Georgia Dragons will come victorious!

We are updating our World Finals galleries daily for everyone here in Ames with us and back at home in Georgia to see what all of our teams are getting into and how amazing of a time it is. There will be pin trading galore, crazy fun all over campus, and even a few of our best teams competing with the best the world has to offer. 

Hey everyone,

Georgia Odyssey will have a booth at Maker Faire Atlanta on October 22nd. Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and love sharing what they do. From engineers and artists to scientists and crafters, Maker Faire is a venue for these “makers” to showcase their hobbies, experiments, and projects.

Location:

Georgia Freight Depot

65 M.L.K. Dr NW

Atlanta, GA 30303

Time: 10am-6pm

High School Volunteers

If you are a high school student who would be interested in volunteering at our booth we’d love to have your help. Volunteers will be talking about their Odyssey experiences to attendees of the Maker Faire. Shifts will be 2 hours long. If Interested, please contact Jose Martinez at Jose@georgiaodyssey.org today!