Tuesday, May 19 & Wednesday May 20, 2015 East Lansing, MI IN THIS ISSUE EAST LANSING WELCOMES Welcome!...... 1 Important Phone Numbers...... 1 2015 ODYSSEY OF THE MIND WORLD FINALS! Social Media and Website...... 1 BY BRENDAN DWYER Commemorative OMER Stamp...... 1 elcome to Spartan Country Odyssey of Souvenir Stations...... 1 the Mind! East Lansing Michigan and Team Photography...... 1 W Michigan State University are proud to host COU Raffles Pins for a Cause...... 2 the 2015 World Finals competition. This 36th Prop Storage and Delivery...... 2 annual event will bring together over 8,000 NASA Sponsorship...... 2 of the brightest young minds from around the Shuttle Schedule...... 2 world for an incredible week of competition, Impression 5 Special Offer...... 4 camaraderie, creativity and culture. Supply Stores...... 2-3 A university well-known for cutting Weather Forecast...... 3 edge research in science, engineering and Computer Access...... 3 agriculture, Michigan State is an ideal backdrop Spartan Green...... 3 for an event featuring the innovation of the Impression 5...... 3 planet’s brightest young minds. Offering over Opening Ceremonies Tickets...... 3 150 majors and an annual enrollment of over EL Businesses Red Carpet...... 4 50,000 students, all spread across a scenic What To Do On Campus...... 4 5,200-acre campus, MSU is both a nerve- ...... 4 center of learning and a truly picturesque Event Schedule...... 4 landscape. East Lansing, the home of MSU, Dining Hall Hours...... 4 is a bright and thriving community offering Heath Services...... 4 numerous one-of-a-kind attractions, galleries Omer’s World News Staff...... 4 and museums as well as dozens of choices for shopping, dining and entertainment. When IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS participants get a break from competition, Fire, Police, Ambulance groups are strongly encouraged to seek out 911 Emergency ONLY some of the numerous options for fun on Greater Lansing Visitors Center 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 MSU Physicians Office plant specimens at the MSU Demonstration Olin Health Center Gardens, Beal Botanical Gardens and the (517) 884-6546 4-H Children’s Gardens. Take time to explore MSU Public Safety the Eli and Edythe Broad Contemporary Police Department / Parking Art Museum and its one-of-a-kind structure (517) 355-2222 designed by world-renowned architect, Zaha Props/Storage Information at Hadid. Learn more about the history of the Logistics Central Receiving State of Michigan at the MSU Museum. Just (517) 884-6082 three miles west of campus is , Michigan’s Capital City! Take time to TEAM PHOTOGRAPHY World Finals Information Desk (517) 884-7469 tour our Victorian-era State Capitol Building We are proud to announce that once or (517) 884-7470 or explore the State Historical Museum. Science and engineering enthusiasts won’t again, Premier Portraits will be the official ON THE WEB want to miss our award-winning hands-on team portrait photographer for the 2015 science museum, the Impression 5 Science World Finals. We will be available for team facebook.com/OdysseyHQ Center. All throughout the Capital region photos during the Creativity Festival at Odyssey guests will find opportunities to twitter.com/#OdysseyWF the Jenison Field House and at the Breslin explore, get creative, meet friendly faces and Center. We ask that you have your team www.odysseyofthemind.com have fun. From your competitions, to pin- pictures taken as early in the week as trading, to exploring a Big Ten campus, you’re possible to avoid long lines. Costumes COMMEMORATIVE sure to feel the exhilaration and energy of the OMER STAMP and props are strongly encouraged. Odyssey of the Mind World Finals – right here Be sure to have your post cards in Spartan Country! Welcome and good luck BRESLIN CENTER and other mail stamped with the to all! Wednesday, May 20: 2:00 pm – 9:00 pm commemorative OMER Hand Thursday, May 21: 9:30 am - 8:30 pm Cancellation stamp. Friday, May 22: 9:30 am - 8:30 pm It can be found at the MSU Union Saturday, May 23: 9:30 am - 9:30 pm Information Desk. CREATIVITY FESTIVAL @ JENISON FIELD HOUSE SOUVENIR STATIONS Thursday, May 20: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Friday, May 21: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm The souvenir station will be located Saturday, May 22: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm at the International Center Library during the following hours: Prices are $10 for each 5x7 and $18 for each 8x10. Also available are key chain packages Tuesday: noon - 6 pm for $20.00 and photo travel mugs for Wed, Thu & Fri: 9 am - 5 pm $20.00. Each team photographed will Pick up pre-orders here receive a free 5x7 photo for their school. during sales hours! There is only one free 5x7 per photo taken; Another station is at the Creativity if two teams are photographed together Festival during open hours. you only receive one 5x7. Odyssey of the Mind 2015 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 WHERE TO BUY TICKETS: Tickets will be routes throughout the competition Wfeaturing pins from around the world or sold at all Odyssey Souvenir’s sites during connecting the residence halls, problem a quilt of Odyssey shirts from every corner of open hours. sites and facilities, parking, recreational the globe? What if all you had to do was buy HOW MUCH ARE TICKETS: $1.00 Each facilities and the Breslin Center. There a raffle ticket or two?! Creative Opportunities WINNERS ANNOUNCED: The winners of will be two bus routes running on the Unlimited (COU), the non-profit organization the raffle will be announced before the Start campus of Michigan State University for that helps fund travel and housing grants to of the Awards Ceremony and published in participants during World Finals. Please teams (among other great services), will be Sunday’s Omer’s World News. You must claim look for the bus hosts to assist you in raffling off 3 pin collections and one quilt made your prize at the stage prior to the start of the finding your way around campus. of Odyssey shirts this week with all proceeds Ceremony. A LITTLE EXTRA INCENTIVE: For every The Odyssey Bus Route (lime green going to scholarships, housing/travel grants, ticket sold, you will receive a free ticket for on your map) will run in each direction and association development grants to help a complete collection of 2014 pins! This and get you to the residence halls and enrich the Odyssey experience for all. Sounds collection will be awarded during the Float problem sites. great, right?! Here’s how you can participate... and Banner parade. The Orange Route will connect the ODYSSEY OF THE MIND PROP STORAGE public parking lots 83, 89 and 91 to the AND DELIVERY INFORMATION International Center. Tuesday, May 21st racking your props through your carrier’s Props will be delivered to each storage Odyssey Bus Route: begins at 7:00 am website: Log on to your carrier’s website and assembly site no later than Tuesday, T and runs until 12:30 am to follow-up on the status of your shipment May 19th. Logistics will not pick up props at (UPS, FedEx, Freight Carriers) using the your housing location – use the prop storage Orange Route (Parking only): begins shipment tracking number. When delivery to locations at your problem site to construct at 7:00 am and runs until 12:30 am MSU is confirmed you may track your shipment and store your props. Wednesday, May 22nd through the MSU U-Track web page. If you are transporting your own props, Odyssey Bus Route: begins at 7:00 am Tracking Delivery, and Storage at MSU: please deliver them to the prop storage and and runs until 12:30 am assembly site assigned to you. Go to http://usd.msu.edu/logistics/u-track to Orange Route (Parking only): begins Logistics personnel will be available at the track your shipment using the carrier’s tracking at 7:00 am and runs until 12:30 am number. It is your responsibility to have record prop information booth in the International of your tracking number - MSU will be unable Center on Tuesday, 19th 12:30 pm until 4:30 Thursday, May 23rd to assist you without it. When your shipment pm, Wednesday, May 20th from 8:30 am until Odyssey Bus Route: begins at 6:00 am has arrived on campus and has been entered 4:30 pm and Thursday, May 21st from 8:00 and runs until 12:30 am in our internal tracking system, the status will am until 12:00 pm Orange Route (Parking only): begins read: “sort” “trap” or “delivered” (meaning it If you need further assistance, you can call at 7:00 am and runs until 12:30 am has been received at Logistics or delivered to Central Receiving 517-884-6202 between 7:30 am - 11:45 am and 12:30 pm - 3:45 pm Friday, May 24th the prop storage and assembly site). If you Monday through Friday. Odyssey Bus Route: begins at 6:00 am are unable to see your shipment in the MSU Please note that the only transportation to and runs until 12:30 am U-Track system, it has likely not yet delivered problem sites is via the shuttle bus system and Orange Route (Parking only): begins to Logistics Central Receiving or has not been there is no assistance available to transport at 6:00 am and runs until 12:30 am processed into the system. Please try again props. Use the Prop Storage locations at each later. Saturday, May 25th problem site for construction and storage. Odyssey Bus Route: begins at 6:00 am NASA SPONSORSHIP, ACTIVITIES and runs until 12:30 am Orange Route (Parking only): begins BY SUBAN NUR COOLEY AND E-THEATRE at 6:00 am and runs until 12:30 am re you curious to see what the earth Engineering, Mathematics) was the buzzword Sunday, May 26th looks like from space or keen to learn A for many years now, the acronym has now Orange Route (Parking only): begins some interesting facts from a NASA scientist added an “A,” for Art,” adds Graham. “The on site at Odyssey of the Mind? Thanks to at 5:00 am and runs until 1:00 pm NASA/Odyssey partnership has always been NASA’s sponsorship of Odyssey, these unique opportunities will also be available to all at a great fit to promote the STEM agenda and OotM this week. activities, but with STEAM, that fit is of a SUPPLY STORES “OotM is one of the very few organizations greater magnitude.” that can carry the NASA message to a broad Although NASA isn’t sponsoring any Ace Hardware audience in a positive and meaningful way, with Frandor Shopping Center specific problems this year, it hopes to next the great potential of influencing students to 600 Frandor Avenue, Lansing become the scientists and engineers that will year. Alongside the NASA scientists on site, (517) 333-0315 teaching and talking to all those curious be needed to carry forward NASA’s mission CVS/Pharmacy and vision,” says Steven Graham, Outreach enough to ask the right questions – NASA’s 240 M.A.C. Ave., East Lansing Coordinator at NASA. E-Theatre will also be giving you a glimpse (517) 336-8216 NASA loves that Odyssey of the Mind is all into many aspects of earth and beyond. about the children, nourishing their minds with FedEx Office Print & Ship Center science, a sense of community and sparks of For more information about times and 626 Michigan Ave., East Lansing creativity. venue, please take a look at the OotM program (517) 332-5855 “While STEM (Science, Technology, provided. Hobby Lobby 2775 East Ave., East Lansing (517) 337-9253 Home Depot 1749 Newman Road, Okemos (517) 381-0650 Jo-Ann Fabrics & Crafts Frandor Shopping Center 533 Mall Court, Lansing (517) 664-1061 Lowe’s Home Improvement 6821 South Cedar Street, Lansing (517) 699-2940

2 Tuesday, May 21 & Wednesday May 22, 2015 WEATHER FORECAST 2015 ODYSSEY OF THE MIND AND MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Tuesday: High of 56 WORK TOGETHER TO BE SPARTAN GREEN Partly Sunny ichigan State University welcomes all read the signs and utilize our co-mingled Mstudents participating in 2015 Odyssey recycling containers in the prop areas and Wednesday: High of 58 of the Mind competition. As a resident on divert items from the landfill. campus you are now part of MSU’s Be Spartan Mostly Sunny Green initiative. • If you want to save your prop for shipping We challenge you to lessen your impact on home, we will have signs on site for you to Thursday: High of 68 the environment and the campus by taking do so. Mostly Sunny some simple steps that will keep Michigan Rethink State University clean and green. While you Before you throw something into the trash, are competing to be the most creative and think about what else can be done with the Friday: High of 69 innovative, also consider how you can be the item. The props you create may have a future GREENEST. Mostly Sunny use if you take time to think about it. Consider Here is how you can help Be Spartan Green at MSU: how you can minimize your Saturday: High of 73 Reduce/Reuse environmental footprint at MSU and Be Spartan Green. Mostly Sunny Reduce your environmental footprint whenever possible, by Re-educate Sunday: High of 73 using materials, water and energy There will be signs all over 60% Chance of Rain wisely. Bring a refillable water campus to help Odyssey bottle and refill at our hydration participants understand how to stations rather than purchasing divert materials from the landfill bottled water. Turn off the lights and Be Spartan Green. Be a role when you leave a room. Turn the OotM COMPUTER model through your actions and water off while brushing your take the lead on being Spartan ACCESS teeth. Green: reduce, reuse, recycle. Recycle There is one computer lab in each Redesign • MSU has a recycling and reuse center neighborhood that is available for Think creatively about your projects and located on campus, MSU Recycling and how you can reduce, reuse and recycle items Odyssey use. The login and password Surplus Center (www.recycle.msu.edu). are both “visitor.” There is no print The MSU Recycling and Surplus Center in your project. access. Computer labs are available allows our campus to divert over 50% of **Please note: For your safety, Odyssey with 24/7 access to Odyssey of the Mind our waste from landfill. When taking apart participants and guests are instructed to guests at the following locations: your props please be mindful and put it in stay out of back dock and dumpster areas. the appropriate recycling bins. Akers – 141 Odyssey participants found in these areas Brody – 143 • As a summer campus resident we need you will immediately disqualified from the to do your part. It is your responsibility to Case – 337 competition. put material into the recycling containers. Wireless is available to the Odyssey MSU recycles the following material: Thank you for supporting the Be Spartan Green initiative! Good luck in competition, and participants and guests however access • Office paper, mixed paper/boxboard, know that Michigan State University is proud will vary based on where you are on cardboard, newspapers, all plastics, metal, to be the 2015 host site of Odyssey of the Mind. campus. Please visit http://techbase. glass, cloth. Plastics include items such msu.edu/article.asp?id=4254 for all as plastic grocery bags, shrink wrap, instructions on how to connect to bubble wrap, etc. Metal includes wire CONTINUE YOUR the campus guest network. Wi-Fi is mesh and other kinds of metals. If you available when you see the MSUnet created something unusual that has re-use DISCOVERY AT Guest ID showing as a wireless option potential, let us know. in your area. • Michigan is one of the few states that has a bottle law. Most carbonated beverage containers are worth 10 cents if you take SUPPLY STORES them to a local grocery store and redeem them. Additionally, all plastic and metal Meijer Grocery Store carbonated beverage containers can be ree time to spare? Impression 5 Science 1350 West Lake Lansing Rd. recycled. Center invites the Odyssey of the Mind East Lansing • Prop unpacking and assembly areas will F participants to explore its completely (517) 332-2444 have special recycling containers to make interactive space where families can play, recycling in the prop room easy. Please Michael’s Arts & Crafts create and challenge their understanding of Frandor Shopping Center science. Take advantage of the exclusive Buy- 540 Frandor Avenue, Lansing OPENING CEREMONIES One-Get-One-Free offer included in the first (517) 332-1778 edition of the OMER news, and explore exhibits Sam’s Club TICKET INFORMATION such as: 2925 Towne Centre Blvd, Lansing Chew on This!: Explore the human mouth (517) 482-9149 Teams, coaches, and guests staying with giant dental tools. Plus, get up close and on campus will have reserved Opening personal to real teeth under a microscope, see Staples Ceremonies tickets in their registration MRI images and discover how food affects 3003 East Michigan Ave, Lansing packets. All others will need to get their teeth. (517) 332-3632 reserved seating tickets at the Odyssey Spectrum: Step up to a life-size Light Mosaic Student Book Store of the Mind Information Booth at the to create a colorful masterpiece or strike a 421 East Grand River Ave., East Lansing International Center on Wednesday, May pose by the Shadow Wall. (517) 351-4210 20th for Wednesday night’s Opening Nano: Discover a world you can’t see! Play Target Ceremonies between 8 am – 6 pm All seats with magnetic materials, build a giant model 4890 Marsh Road, Okemos are reserved. Any tickets still available of a carbon nanotube and more! (517) 347-0700 after 6 pm can be obtained at the Breslin For a complete list of exhibits, information Center Ticket Office. Concessions will be and directions, visit www.impression5.org. The Walmart Supercenter open during the event. Science Center is conveniently located within 3225 Towne Centre Blvd, Lansing Opening Ceremonies will be at the ten minutes of Michigan State's campus in (517) 487-9150 Breslin Center from 7:30 pm - 9 pm downtown Lansing. 3 Odyssey of the Mind 2015 World Finals | Michigan State University EAST LANSING BUSINESSES LAY OUT RED EVENT SCHEDULE CARPET FOR OotM WORLD FINALS 2015 TUESDAY s the city of East Lansing prepares for Tom Tatum, Manager of Campus Street Aover 16,000 visitors from Odyssey of Sportswear. “We carry a lot of MSU apparel noon - midnight . . Team Registration the Mind (OotM), community development and merchandise that can be a special International Center entities, merchants and restaurateurs are keepsake for visitors to the area. We’ve WEDNESDAY busy stocking their shelves and rolling also stocked some MSU pins perfect for out the red carpet. With students home collecting and trading. We hope to be a fun 8 am - midnight . . Team Registration for the summer, businesses that normally part of the Odyssey experience.” International Center bustle experience a period with quiet cash While OotM participants arrive on campus 3 pm - 5 pm . . .Coaches IPC Meeting registers. As part of the warm reception with full brains, the same cannot be said for Wharton Cobb Great Hall area businesses are abundantly aware of their stomachs. Enter the many East Lansing 7:30 - 9 pm . . .Opening Ceremonies OotM groups and stand by ready to serve. restaurants ready to serve dishes of nearly Amy Schlusler, East Lansing Community Breslin Event Center every kind. “We remember OotM in 2013 and Development Specialist and representative we saw a lot of hungry groups coming in for the Downtown Management Board looking for quick, great-tasting inexpensive reported a positive impact on the East food as well as East Lansing fare – I feel Lansing community the last time OotM DINING HALL HOURS we gave them great portions of both,” said was in town and feels confident it will be strong again this year. “Numerous area Aaron Weiner, General Manager of Buffalo Wednesday through Saturday Wild Wings. “We recently upgraded to the businesses have offered coupons and Breakfast: 6:00 am - 9:00 am special promotions for this unique visiting latest HD projectors and flat-screens, have Lunch: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm group,” said Schlusler. “We’re honored to be great Spartan memorabilia and are offering an OotM World Finals host city.” 10% off to all Odyssey groups.” Dinner: 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm Area retailers agree, some even bringing “Our community thrives on young Sunday unique insight into what OotM is all about. customers and high-energy clientele,” said “I was in OotM when I was young so I have Schlusler. “MSU is thrilled to host this one- To Go Breakfast: 5:00 am - 7:00 am a lot of great memories of the teamwork, of-a-kind group and East Lansing merchants Dine In Breakfast: 7:00 am - 9:00 am thrill of competition and trading pins,” said are open for business.” WHAT TO DO ON CAMPUS HEALTH SERVICES MSU Union - A favorite gathering spot with 4H Children’s Garden - Designed especially fast food restaurants, billiards, bowling, and for children, and completely handicap The University Physicians Office the MSU Spirit Shop. accessible, this delightful garden features Located on the third floor or the Olin a tree house built from twigs and limbs, a MSU Bookstore - In the International Memorial Health Center on East Circle Center, with a wide selection of Spartan garden house, and an amphitheater and paraphernalia and other supplies. themed gardens, such as pizza and Peter Drive on the north edge of campus Rabbit. Just Imagine a garden where plants, MSU Museum - Exhibits on cultural and Phone: (517) 884-6546 children, and imaginations grow! Located natural history, with an emphasis on the Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm south of the Plant & Soil Sciences Building. Great Lakes region. Its gift shop features Open April 1 – November 1. Dawn to dusk. unique items from around the world. E.W. Admission is free. Admission is free. MSU Dairy Store - When you visit the Dairy Medical care is also available through Kresge Art Museum - A permanent Store, we want to see you leaving with a the emergency department of Sparrow collection of more than 6,000 works of smile on your face. We are dedicated to art spanning several centuries, as well as Hospital located at making your visit enjoyable and serving special exhibitions and traveling shows. 1215 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. our delectable ice cream and other soda Admission is free. fountain favorites. Plan to try OMER Phone: (517) 364-1000 W. J. Beal Botanical Garden - Founded Tracks and Odd-a-Scream made especially in 1873, the Beal Botanical Garden is the for World Finals! During your visit, we Sparrow Urgent Care Center oldest continuously operated garden of encourage you to visit the observation deck Okemos Center its kind in the U.S. It includes over 5,000 to see the processing facilities. Observe a 2248 Mt. Hope, Suite 106 species organized in economic, systematic, multimedia presentation on cheese and ice landscape and ecological groupings. The cream production. Tuesdays, Wednesdays (at Okemos Rd.) Garden also features an endangered and and Thursdays offer the best opportunities Phone: (517) 381-4001 threatened plant collection and Michigan for catching our process making some of Hours: Everyday, 10am – 10pm native wetland plants. Located west of the our products, including our award winning Main Library. Admission is free. cheeses! Located in Anthony Hall and the MSU Horticulture Gardens - An official AII MSU Union. American Trial Garden test site for annual Spartan Lanes Bowling Center - Located OMER’S WORLD NEWS bedding plants. They have an extensive in the lower level of the Union, this center perennial collection with an annual display features 16 lanes for open play. The center is STAFF and rose collection. Located south of the open to the public. Lane fees are reasonable Plant & Soil Sciences Building. Open Dawn and shoe rentals are available. This is an air- Odyssey of the Mind Editor to dusk. Admission is free. conditioned and nonsmoking environment. Jennifer Veale

Assignment Editor If you are looking for something fun to do while Brandie Putnam you are in the Lansing area, bring your family Reporters and friends out for a game. Suban Nur Cooley Brendan Dwyer Tuesday May 19th @ 10:35 am: Featuring one dollar hot dogs, soda Brandie Putnam and ice cream sandwiches. Amanda Vasas Wednesday May 20th @ 10:35 am: Hump Day! Meet our very own Humphrey the Camel! Thursday May 21st @ 7:05 pm: Labatt Thirsty Thursday featuring $2 Sodas Design Bring to Design, LLC Friday May 22nd @ 7:05 pm: Flat Screen Friday. We’ll give away a TV each inning and bringtodesign.com the game concludes with LAFCU Fireworks. Saturday May 23rd @ 7:05 pm: Eat-A-Palooza. All tickets are $20 in advance and include Printing & Distribution all the food you can eat. NEWSWEB Sunday May 24th @ 2:05 pm: Kids can Play Catch on the field before the game and run Innovative Media Solutions the bases after the game on Kids Day presented by Delta Dental! Greenville, Michigan 4