Rice High School

I truly learned about the world during my experience in Boulder, Colorado, for Odyssey of the Mind. Odyssey of the Mind is a creative problem-solving competition involving students from kindergarten through college, who work at length to solve a predefined problem and present their solution at a competition. I joined the program in October of 2004, with our task being to create two vehicles that could bypass a certain obstacle course. Five months of hard work later, my group put our machines to the task, and not only successfully completed the course, but also garnered the title of second place, which entitled us to compete two months later in Boulder! After much debate between parents, we finally opted to go for it, and compete at World Finals in May, with people from around the globe.