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Copper Beech Students take Third Place at World Finals

A team of seven students from Copper Beech Elementary, in Glenside, has earned third place in the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals held at the University of Maryland in College Park, May 31^st - June 3^rd.

The students earned the right to compete in this event by placing second place in their division during the state competition held at Altoona Area High School on April 12^th.

Odyssey of the Mind is a creative problem solving competition for students in kindergarten through high school.

Teams are judged in three areas: the long term problem, where teams prepare solutions and bring them to the competition; style or the enhancement of the long-term solution; and the spontaneous problem given to the team on the day of the competition.

The students from Copper Beech Elementary presented their problem to The Eccentrics, a challenge that requires them to create and present a humorous performance about three eccentric characters that are faced with a problem in the Earth’s cryosphere.  The eccentric characters, who seem to be misfits, fix the cracks in the Antarctic, and save the world.

At the World Finals, the Copper Beech Elementary students were matched against other qualifiers from throughout North America as well as Australia, Africa, Asia, and Europe.