VT Pins 2025

Congratulations to all participants and winners of the 2025 VT OM Tournament! Thank you for your incredible solutions. Tournament scores can be viewed below, and we look forward to seeing you next year.

Here are the winners of the Ranatra Fusca Awards! A special congratulations to both teams for their exceptional creativity!

Overall Tournament Award: Orchard School, South Burlington, VT:

Problem 3, Cooking with Books, Division I Team

Ranatra Fusca Award: Spontaneous

Burke Town School, Burke, VT: P5, AstronOMical, Division II Team

OMer’s Awards: For demonstrating exceptional qualities that embody the essence of OM, we proudly present the OMer’s Award winners!

Problem 2, Mech-Animal Sidekick, Colchester Middle School, Division II Team Member: Mary MacDonald

Problem 5, AstronOMical Odyssey!, Division II Team: Essex Town PTO

VT Odyssey of the Mind is excited to begin our new year!

Having been involved in OM, you know how amazing this program is to improve student creativity, team-work and problem-solving skills, and having fun while doing it.  Our goal is to reach as many Vermont students as possible, and the best way to do this is with the help of those with first-hand experience. 

Here are a few possible ways you can help:

• Introduce the OM program to friends, relatives, neighbors, co-workers who have students between K-12th grades.  For more information, they can go to our website http://vt.odysseyofthemind.org or contact us directly.
• Do you live in a high traffic area, would you be willing to place a lawn sign along the road in front of your home? This is what it looks like (two sides the same).
  
• Help us set-up an Information Night at your local school, library, home-school group, recreational department, etc.    Give us a time and place and we will be there!  We will come prepared to tell them all about OM and assist in getting teams started.

To stay in touch with OM please go to the following link so we can add you to our OM National Alumni Directory: https://www.odysseyalumni.org/.    This is for coaches, judges and past team members.  We love seeing our VT OM alumni involved at the local and national level.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you,

Lesley Adams
Association Director

ADvtoom@gmail.com

Stephanie Fournier
Northern Regional Director

rdnvtootm@gmail.com

Rachel Preston
Southern Regional Director

rdsvtootm@gmail.com

Opening Ceremonies:

https://youtu.be/L8P7flNrKMIvM

Float and Banner Parade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxtcKWRyj1Q

Awards/Closing Ceremonies:

https://youtu.be/F28L6olwoxY

• Colchester Coordinator, individual award: Stephanie Fournier
• Richmond Elementary School, P5 DI, team award
• Town of Brandon, P4 DIII, team award
• Union Memorial, Primary, team award
• Camels Hump Middle School, P5 DII, team award

• Given for Spontaneous: Colchester Middle School, P5 DII, team award

Check out photos from the 2019 Vermont State Tournament by looking in Tournament Photos!

Great 40th Anniversary Tournament with OMER in attendance.

Find your scores here:

https://www.odysseyofthemind.com/competitions/2019/17239_scores_menu.html

We have a friend crocheting plastic bags to be made into Sleeping mats for the homeless. Takes about 900 bags to make a 3′ x 6′ mat.

If you have clean plastic bags you want to recycle for a good use, please bring them to the Tournament and we’ll take it from there.

The 2019 Vermont Odyssey of the Mind State Tournament has been posted.

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Tournament Schedule