The Odyssey of the Mind team from the Apalachin Elementary School came in first place at their regional competition which was held last month at Binghamton High School.
 
The team chose to compete in the "Envirover" long term problem. They had to build and drive a human-powered vehicle that would collect trash and deliver it to a factory. There the trash had to be recycled into something useful. The Envirover had to make at least three deliveries to the factory. The team had to present a prototype of the recycled item. During the presentation, they had to produce five samples of the product using the trash that was delivered by the vehicle. This needed to be connected by a student-written skit having a store setting and requiring a humorous sales pitch. All of this had to be done within eight minutes.
 
Everything in this competition is student generated. There could be no outside assistance from coaches, parents, or school personnel. For example, when producing their version of the vehicle, lessons on how to use s drill or glue gun could be given, but then they had to apply these lessons to their own ideas.

 The members of the Apalachin Elementary School Odyssey of the Mind team are:

 4th Graders: Tyler Hohman, Laura Fallon

 5th Graders: Paige Vymislicky, Rachel Berryman, Aleah Williams, Brian Ives.
 The coaches of the team are John Fallon and Rich Ives.