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Tuesday, May 19 & Wednesday May 20, 2015 East Lansing, MI IN THIS ISSUE EAST LANSING MICHIGAN 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- Lansing Lugnuts .................................... 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 downtown Lansing, 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.