Resources
We are always striving to provide our teams, coaches, and coordinators with high quality resources. We have assembled a number of guides, tips, tricks, and links just for this purpose. One of the biggest resources we have is each other. If you have any items that you feel would be useful to others please email the Association Director; Maineomguy@gmail.com.
Improved Coaches' Manual
The Board of Directors has been hard at work to improve the Coaches' Manual, including a reformat to make everything easier for you to find! Whether you are new to coaching or an old pro, check out this updated resource, packed full of information to help you be a great coach to your creative kids!
Coaches' Manual
Are you offering Outside Assistance?
We all want our teams to succeed and to feel good about their own accomplishment. It is important to always focus on one of the core tenants of Odyssey of the Mind; this is a learning experience. Parents, coaches and community members are encouraged to teach the process of creative problem solving but teams must do their own work. Odds are that many coaches and parents aren't offering their teams Outside Assistance and if they are, often times it can be inadvertent or done for safety reason. There are times when every coached should stop themselves and ask "Is this Outside Assistance? Click the link below for an easy to read chart breaking down what is, and is not, OA.
A Guide to the Mystical World of Outside Assistance
Be a Spontaneous Master
Hands On. Verbal. Verbal Hands On. There are an infinite number of ways to work those spontaneous muscles. Be creative. How can you help you team get into shape? Here are just a few examples.
Thank you to Tennessee Odyssey of the Mind for providing these Spontaneous Problems! Looking for more? Click HERE.
Never Have I Ever (Verbal)Your problem is to complete this statement: I have never _________ because ________. |
King Purrsalot (Verbal)Your problem is to say something about the image or tell what the character in the image might say. |
Bubble Gate (Verbal)Your problem is to say something about the image in front of you. |
Bowling...Odyssey Style (Hands On)You problem is to create a device or devices that will allow you to launch balls toward the bowling pins. |
Crossing the line (Hands On)Your problem is to build a structure that can extend as far past the edge of the table as possible and cross as many of these lines as possible. |