UPDATE: The Franklin Middle School team placed 17th of the 50 teams competing.
By Emily Russoniello Special to the FR&A
The Franklin Middle School Odyssey of the Mind team. Photo: Emily Russoniello
In the basement of the Hillsborough Reformed Church, six local students in grades 5 through 8 are dressing up as dairy products. It’s not a taping of the next “got milk?” commercial, although that phrase will come up. Rather, they are costuming themselves as an unconventional royal court that was borne completely from their imaginations.
“They” are the Franklin Middle School Odyssey of the Mind team, and right now they are preparing for the World Finals. Now through May 31, this team of six middle schoolers and their two coaches are at Iowa State University to present their solution to a problem they have been working on since September. It’s serious business, too. At this level they will be competing against 54 other teams from approximately 25 countries.
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