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| The German International Odyssey of the Mind Competition March 11 - 12, 2005 |
| The opening ceremonies took place Friday evening at the Sony Center in Berlin. The evening included all the teams in a mass parade with a drum and bugle corps; performances of the German and American national anthems, and entertainment by dancers, a marianette team, and a funny skit to introduce the OM judges. |
| The American School of the Hague arrived with 7 different teams of 5-7 students each in the elementary and middle school divisions. There were 35 teams total scheduled to compete. Rachel and her team competed on problem #5, Laugh-a-thon. They did indeed have a lot of laughs together! |
| Rachel's team nears the end of their 8 minute skit with a military scene in which Rachel plays the general. The boy in the tu-tu provides the punchline by miming to another soldier that his uniform is out of order because he thought it was world war 2-2. |
| The team awaits the final results for their division and problem. The long-term problem score is combined with style points (it's confusing - sorry) and a score from a spontaneous problem that they completed earlier in the day which involved lauching an egg in a team designed container. They came in 2nd! |
| Find out more about Odyssey of the Mind and the German International OM |