Odyssey of the Mind is an international student competition focused on creativity and teamwork where teams develop a long term project and present their solution and solve a spontaneous creative challenge at competition.  Teams of seven students work together to create a play which incorporates a wide range of requirements focused on a central theme.

Odyssey of the mind is a unique program in many ways but one important aspect of this program is that the students involved must do everything associated with the solution of their problem, themselves, without any outside assistance.  

Check out their website for more details:  http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/

The Mountain Community School Team consisting of two 8th graders, four 7th graders and one 6th grader, began working in November of 2011 on national problem #5, Odyssey Angels.  The problem asks the team to create a play which can be performed in less than 8 minutes about Odyssey Angels that are students who work together to help people solve their problems.  One of the Angels must have some kind of team created special power, and another Angel must not be able to speak.  The Angels are to solve two team created different problems of two different individuals and then solve a team created community-wide problem.

The team worked on the play for months focused on the Western NC Odyssey of the Mind Competition which would be held at Enka High School on Saturday, February 25, 2012.