Michigan 2017 Odyssey of the Mind World Finals!
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Tuesday, May 23 & Wednesday May 24, 2017 East Lansing, MI IN THIS ISSUE WELCOME TO MICHIGAN Welcome! ...................................................1 Important Phone Numbers ..................1 2017 ODYSSEY OF THE MIND Social Media and Website ....................1 Commemorative OMER Stamp ..........1 WORLD FINALS! Souvenir Stations ....................................1 BY BRENDAN DWYER Team Photography .................................1 elcome to East Lansing, Michigan – or COU Raffles Pins for a Cause ............2 Was we call it – Spartan Country! East What to Do on Campus .......................2 Lansing and Michigan State University are Pizza House Special Offer ..................2 proud to host the 2017 OotM World Finals Impression 5 Special Offer .................2 competition. This 38th annual event will bring Shuttle Schedule ....................................2 together nearly 6,000 of the brightest young Supply Stores ..................................... 2-3 minds on planet Earth for an incredible week Weather Forecast...................................3 of tough competition, brilliant creativity and Computer Access ...................................3 friendships to last a lifetime. Spartan Green .........................................3 A university well-known for cutting Impression 5 .............................................3 edge research in science, engineering and Team Dining and Housing ...................3 agriculture, Michigan State is an ideal backdrop Get Social With World Finals............ 4 for an event featuring the innovation of the Menchie's Frozen Yogurt .................... 4 world’s brightest young minds. Offering over Parking ...................................................... 4 200 programs across 17 specialized colleges Prop Storage and Delivery ................ 4 with an annual enrollment of over 50,000 Lansing Lugnuts .................................... 4 students, MSU is a thriving center of learning Event Schedule ...................................... 4 carved into a picturesque landscape. East Opening Ceremonies Tickets............ 4 Lansing, the home of MSU, is a bright and Heath Services ....................................... 4 thriving community offering numerous one- Omer’s World News Staff .................. 4 of-a-kind attractions, galleries and museums as well as dozens of choices for shopping, IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS dining and entertainment. When participants Fire, Police, Ambulance get a break from competition, groups are 911 Emergency ONLY encouraged to explore the numerous options Greater Lansing Visitors Center for fun on campus! (517) 487-6800 As the nation’s first land grant college, MSU MSU Campus Information is a world leader in horticulture and botany. (517) 355-1855 See all types of beautiful flowers and unique plant specimens at the MSU Demonstration MSU Physicians Office Beaumont Tower is and MSU Campus icon built Gardens, Beal Botanical Gardens and the in 1928 and its bells can be heard for miles. Olin Health Center 4-H Children’s Gardens. Take time to explore Containing 49 bells total the smallest weighs 15 (517) 884-6546 the Eli & Edythe Broad Contemporary Art lbs, the largest is two-and-a-half tons! MSU Public Safety Museum and its one-of-a-kind structure Police Department / Parking designed by world-renowned architect, Zaha TEAM PHOTOGRAPHY (517) 355-2222 Hadid. Try unique ice cream flavors made from Props/Storage Information at the milk of MSU cows at the Dairy Store, or We are proud to announce that once Logistics Central Receiving handle a live Tarantula or Madagascar Hissing again, Premier Portraits will be the official (517) 884-6082 Cockroach at the MSU Bug House! Just three team portrait photographer for the 2017 World Finals Information Desk miles west of campus is downtown Lansing, World Finals. We will be available for team (517) 884-7469 Michigan’s Capital City! Take time to tour photos during the Creativity Festival at or (517) 884-7470 our Victorian-era State Capitol Building or the Jenison Field House and at the Breslin explore the Michigan History Center. Science ON THE WEB Center. We ask that you have your team and engineering enthusiasts won’t want to pictures taken as early in the week as facebook.com/OdysseyHQ miss our award-winning hands-on science possible to avoid long lines. Costumes museum, the Impression 5 Science Center and props are strongly encouraged. twitter.com/#OdysseyWF or the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum. From your competitions, to pin-trading, to BRESLIN CENTER www.odysseyofthemind.com exploring our beautiful 5,200-acre Big Ten Wednesday, May 20: 2:00 pm – 9:00 pm COMMEMORATIVE campus and beyond, you’re sure to feel the Thursday, May 21: 9:30 am - 8:30 pm OMER STAMP energy and excitement of Lansing, Michigan. Friday, May 22: 9:30 am - 8:30 pm Saturday, May 23: 9:30 am - 9:30 pm Get Odyssey of the Mind World Welcome to the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals cancellation stamps at the Finals! CREATIVITY FESTIVAL MSU USPS Postal Service Center, @ JENISON FIELD HOUSE located on the main floor at the SOUVENIR STATIONS Thursday, May 20: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Welcome Center. The Odyssey of Friday, May 21: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm the Mind post office station will A souvenir station will be located at the Saturday, May 22: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm cancel any postcard or envelope International Center Library during the Prices are $10 for each 5x7 and $18 for each with first class postage attached following hours: 8x10. Also available are key chain packages at the MSU Union location only. Tuesday: 2:00 pm - 10:00 pm for $20.00 and photo travel mugs for The post office has stamps and $20.00. Each team photographed will envelopes on site for purchase. Wed: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm receive a free 5x7 photo for their school. Post Office Hours are: Thu & Sat: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm There is only one free 5x7 per photo taken; Monday – Friday: 8 am – 5:30 pm Another station is at the Creativity if two teams are photographed together Saturday: 8 am – 12 pm Festival during open hours. you only receive one 5x7. Odyssey of the Mind 2017 World Finals | Michigan State University LOVE PINS? WANT A WHOLE LOT MORE? SHUTTLE SCHEDULE COU RAFFLES PINS, SHIRTS FOR GREAT CAUSES Indian Trails will be operating bus hat would you do for a pin collection enrich the Odyssey experience for all. Sounds routes throughout the competition Wfeaturing pins from around the world or great, right?! Here's how you can participate... connecting the residence halls, problem a quilt of Odyssey shirts from every corner of WHERE TO BUY TICKETS: Tickets will be sites and facilities, parking, recreational the globe? What if all you had to do was buy sold at all Odyssey Souvenir Stations during facilities and the Breslin Center. There a raffle ticket or two?! Creative Opportunities open hours. will be two bus routes running on the Unlimited (COU), the non-profit organization HOW MUCH ARE TICKETS: $1.00 Each campus of Michigan State University for that helps fund travel and housing grants to WINNERS ANNOUNCED: The winners participants during World Finals. Please teams (among other great services), will be of the raffle will be announced before the look for the bus hosts to assist you in raffling off 3 pin collections and one quilt made Start of the Awards Ceremony on the Jumbo finding your way around campus. of Odyssey shirts this week with all proceeds Screen and published in Sunday’s Omer's going to scholarships, housing/travel grants, World News. Please claim your prize at the The Odyssey Bus Route (green on your and association development grants to help stage prior to the start of the Ceremony. map) will run in each direction and get you to the residence halls and problem WHAT TO DO ON CAMPUS sites. hat may come as a surprise to some, The Orange Route will connect the WMichigan State University is not just made public parking lots 16, 83, 89 91, and up of classrooms, libraries, dormitories and Ramp 7 to the International Center. laboratories. Visitors to this institute of higher Tuesday, May 23rd education can find attractions, entertainment, Odyssey Bus Route: begins at 7:00 am world-class cultural offerings plus some and runs until 12:30 am delicious treats that are a direct result and a Orange Route (Parking only): begins at culmination of ongoing research by Michigan 7:00 am and runs until 12:30 am State students and professors alike. These Wednesday, May 24nd attractions and more are ready to welcome Odyssey Bus Route: begins at 7:00 am Odyssey participants with open arms. and runs until 12:30 am Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University Orange Route (Parking only): begins at The museum presents groundbreaking, 7:00 am and runs until 12:30 am international contemporary art across all Thursday, May 25rd media. Current exhibits include the debut of Odyssey Bus Route: begins at 6:00 am “The Transported Man" which include a table, and runs until 12:30 am an elephant, a bug zapper, a bar of soap, a Orange Route (Parking only): begins at mirror, a thunderclap, a cat, a vending machine 7:00 am and runs until 12:30 am and fireflies. Friday, May 26th Whitney Stoepel-Brewer, Director of Public Odyssey Bus Route: begins at 6:00 am Relations at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art MSU Museum and runs until 12:30 am Museum states “The doors will be open and we The MSU Museum is a Smithsonian affiliate Orange Route (Parking only): begins at have free admission so we'll be excited to see and features three floors of special natural 6:00 am and runs until 12:30 am all the foot traffic on campus, especially since history exhibits. Two of the current temporary Saturday, May 27th the MSU students are gone!” exhibits are “Quilted Conversations: Materializing Civil and Human Rights” and Odyssey Bus Route: begins at 6:00 am “Next Stop Atlantic” by photographer and runs until 12:30 am Stephen Mallon. Orange Route (Parking only): begins at "We are honored Michigan State University 6:00 am and runs until 12:30 am is hosting this extraordinary group of students Sunday, May 28th for the annual Odyssey of the Mind World Orange Route (Parking only): begins at Finals,” notes Stephanie Palagyi, MSU Museum 5:00 am and runs until 1:00 pm Communications Coordinator.