Student of the week last week was Derek Grace. Derek took charge of many of the printing processes in our school based enterprise including the printing of nearly all of the mouse pads and will do so again for our next contest, flags.

In addition he handles all the tech to set up for our silver level movies and was the final welcome addition to our current Odyssey of the Mind team.

On Jan. 20 students interested in seeing Universal Technical Institute were escorted by teacher Dan Maes to Sacramento to attend the Monster Jam and explore the school.

“It was well organized, well laid out, and very expensive,” said Maes.

“I thought it was awesome, especially the Ford program,” said student John Warren.

We would like to thank Mr. Maes for running this so students Marco Ochoa, Vince Adams, Levi Floyd, Jason Hammond, Mat Brown, John Warren, Richard Skinner and Arturo Negrete could experience it.

On Jan. 29 Odyssey of the mind members Karalena Cole, Stevie Cook, Momo Englander, Lisa Davis, Daniel Hernandez, Derek Grace and Dylan Ward attended the annual Spontaneous Day at Hidden Valley Elementary School in Santa Rosa last Saturday.

“Spontaneous Day is a lot like popcorn, you're never sure which kernel is going to pop next,” said student Momo Englander.

We would like to thank Principal Ed Zander for taking time to bring us down there so we could enjoy and learn from Spontaneous Day, and would also like to thank Cathy Parker for organizing this so students can enjoy these activities and truly think outside of the box.

“Spontaneous Day is creative problem solving at its purest,” said Parker. “It is hands on and brains on and is my favorite part of Odyssey Of The Mind. Lots of times it's hard to find hands on activities and this is a great way to get together and celebrate. I learned about OM when I was at Lower Lake

Elementary as a coach.”

Finally, we would like to congratulate our arm wrestling winner, returning and now two-time arm wrestling champion Dylan Nevarez. He and all the other first and second place winners were awarded hand made medallions created by students in our school based enterprise.

Karalena Cole is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.