OM Regionals- Matthew-- 1st place

Viewers may be like me and not know what "Odyssey of the Mind" is when they first hear it, so I'm including a link to their site: http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/. Below is a brief recap of the program:

Odyssey of the Mind is an international educational program that provides creative problem-solving opportunities for students from kindergarten through college. Team members apply their creativity to solve problems that range from building mechanical devices to presenting their own interpretation of literary classics. They then bring their solutions to competition on the local, state, and World level. Thousands of teams from throughout the U.S. and from about 25 other countries participate in the program.

Matthew and Taylor both qualified and made it on an OM team this year. Matthew also participated in OM last year.

Today Matthew's team won 1st place in their division, Earth Trek. Below is an explaination about their "problem" they had to solve. Winning means they move on to state competitions in April in Newport, AR.

Earth TrekDivisions I, II, III , & IV: This problem requires teams to design and build a small vehicle that will visit four locations. The locations will be different places within one or more team-determined environments. Each time the vehicle leaves a location it will look different in appearance, and after leaving one of the locations it will appear to be a group of vehicles that are traveling together. The team's performance will incorporate the visits to the locations, the environments, and the changes in appearance of the vehicle.

The first clips is their actual Earth Trek skit. The following 2 clips show the judges asking them questions in order to grade them.