Coach Training

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Coach Training

• LA Odyssey presents

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Section One

• Welcome

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Agenda

• Introductions
• Role of the coach
• Video
• Long term problems
• Video
• Spontaneous
• Your turn
• Rules
• Tips
• Paperwork
• Fees and deadlines
• People needed

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Our two objectives

• Our first objective is that you get a sense of
  the philosophy behind the program and know how to
  implement it with your team.
• Our second objective is that you understand the
  rules and other particulars and can apply them
  throughout the year.

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Introductions

• Ginger Chulack
• Kaye Ragland
• Jeanne Giannini
• Frank Giannini
• Bob Anderson
• Chad Parker
• Primary email contact
• la_odyssey_at_earthlink.net

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Resources

• Check out our website
• http//www.LAodyssey.org
• Email us
• Call us
• Dont try to do this without help!

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Section Two

• The role of the coach

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The role of the coach

• The role of the coach includes
• Providing structure
• Providing emotional support
• Providing guidance
• Providing limited training
• The role of the coach does not include
• Answering questions about the problem

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Providing structure

• Teams of all ages need some structure.
• They need a goal and a sense of belonging.
• When all is said and done, the meetings for the
  entire year are where the magic happens, so let
  this philosophy guide you
• Learning teamwork and creative problem solving
  skills is more important than focusing on winning!

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Providing emotional support

• They need to know they can do it.
• They also need to know that failure is ok!
• And finally, they must feel their solution is all
  theirs!
• Everything else comes from the above.
• Dont coddle them, believe in them!

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Providing guidance

• You can, and should, teach them the following
• How to work as a team
• How to brainstorm
• How to communicate effectively
• How to celebrate!
• How to stay organized
• the list goes on

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Providing guidance (cont.)

• Dont expect them to know how to do all of this.
• Make a specific point of teaching these skills.
  Tell them youre doing it, and why!
• Many games and activities are available to help
  you see the resources.

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Providing training

• There is a misconception that they have to learn
  everything on their own. This is not so.
• As the coach, you can teach them skills they may
  need to solve the problem. For example
• How to hammer a nail
• How to make a hinge
• How to paint
• How to dance

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Providing training (cont.)

• In short, you can train them in anything they
  could learn from a book.
• The principle rule here is that they need to
  create their own solution. The creative process
  must be theirs, but they can get help learning
  the skills.
• Much more on this later when we talk about rules.

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A quick note on parents

• Parents have no role in the creation of the
  solution.
• My rules
• Parents may not even be told what the team is
  doing until after Christmas.
• After Christmas, the team can tell the parents
  what they are doing, but the parents may not say
  anything.

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Section Three

• Long term problems

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Purpose

• The long term problem provides
• Guidelines to help the creative process
• A specific task to help the team focus
• An open ended problem that allows for many
  possible solutions
• And a method for the team to evaluate their own
  progress!

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Problem types

• Problems come in five main categories
• Vehicle
• Technical performance
• Classics
• Structure
• Performance

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Video

• Were now going to watch a video showing some
  problems from previous years.
• What you will see includes long term and style.
• VIDEO

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The 2006-2007 Problems

• Problem 1 (vehicle) TagEm
• Problem 2 (technical) The Large and Small of It
• Problem 3 (Classics) Classics Around the World
  in 8 Minutes
• Problem 4 (structure) Out of the Box Balsa
• Problem 5 (performance) Im Only Thinking of You

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Problem 1 (vehicle) TagEm

• Create 1 or more small vehicles that travel
  through a tagging area.
• Emphasis is on Creativity and Originality of
  vehicle and tagging system as well as on how many
  times vehicles get tagged.

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Problem 2 (technical) The Large and Small of It

• Create a story and a small story book with 3
  pages.
• Create a larger version of the pages for the
  stage.
• Emphasis is on creativity and how the large pages
  change and enhance the performance.

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Problem 3 (Classics) Classics Around the World
in 8 Minutes

• Create a story about a trip with 2 real and 1
  imaginary stops.
• Create interesting characters.
• Emphasis is on creativity of set, characters and
  props as well as reason for trip and performance
  elements.

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Problem 4 (structure) Out of the Box Balsa

• Create a balsa wood structure to support weight.
• Structure starts in a small box and is put
  together during the 8 minute time period.
• Emphasis is on weight held and creativity.

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Problem 5 (performance) Im Only Thinking of You

• Create a humorous performance about a
  self-centered character.
• Character takes advantage of others, and finally
  gets caught.
• Emphasis is almost entirely on creativity.

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Solving the long term problem

• Steps
• The team comes up with how they will make the
  solution.
• The team comes up with a style presentation.
• The coach makes them practice!

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How to get questions answered

• If the team has a question about the problem, the
  only resource to get it answered is the
  clarification process on the national website.
• Make sure they read the problem and the program
  guide before they ask!
• Dont try to answer questions yourself.

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Things to avoid

• Dont
• Help them come up with ideas.
• Evaluate their ideas.
• Help them choose which idea is best.
• Tell them you like their new idea better.
• All of those would be outside assistance.
• Remember, the team makes all such evaluations!
  Thats the point!

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Section Four

• Spontaneous

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Types of spontaneous

• Verbal
• Verbal/Hands-on
• Hands-on (often non-verbal)

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Verbal

• Teams are asked to give responses.
• Responses are judged common or creative.
• Examples
• Name things that are blue.
• Name things that rise and what makes them do so.
• Given two lists of words, use a word from list A
  and a word from list B together in a sentence.

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Verbal hands-on

• Teams are asked to give responses.
• Responses are judged common or creative.
• Example
• Given an object or picture, say and demonstrate
  what it may have been used for.

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Hands on (non-verbal)

• Team is presented with a problem they need to
  solve.
• They usually get time to plan, during which they
  may talk.
• Then they have to solve the problem, often
  without talking.
• Example
• Half of your team needs to sort these items based
  on a list given to the other half of your team
  without talking

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Ready?

• Good Luck!

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Problem 1 Verbal

• Scoring
• Common 1 pt
• Creative or Humorous 5 pt
• Procedure
• Respond in sequence. You may not skip your turn,
  repeat a response, or pass.
• You will have 2 minutes to think and 3 minutes to
  respond.
• Your problem
• Your team is to name as many cats as you can.
  For example, you might say A Siamese Cat

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Ready?

• Good Luck!

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Problem 2 Verbal

• Scoring
• Common 1 pt
• Creative or Humorous 5 pt
• Procedure
• Respond in sequence. You may not skip your turn,
  repeat a response, or pass.
• You will have 2 minutes to think and 3 minutes to
  respond.
• Your problem
• Name things that go faster and what makes them do
  so. For example, you might say A car goes
  faster when you press down the gas pedal.

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Ready?

• Good Luck!

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Problem 3 Verbal Hands-On

• Scoring
• Common 1 pt
• Creative or Humorous 5 pt
• Procedure
• Respond in sequence. You may not skip your turn,
  repeat a response, or pass.
• You will have 2 minutes to think and 3 minutes to
  respond.
• Your problem
• It is the year 2525 and your team has discovered
  a bag of items from the year 2000. On your turn
  you will take something from the bag and say what
  it might have been used for.

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Ready?

• Good Luck!

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Problem 4 Non-verbal hands-on

• Your problem
• Using only the pasta found in these bowls, build
  a tower that will go as high above the table as
  possible.
• The bowls may not be part of your solution. The
  tower must be made of pasta. The tower may not
  fastened to the table in any way.
• Procedure
• You will have 6 minutes to plan your solution and
  then 8 minutes to build your structure. You may
  talk during your planning time, but you may not
  speak during your building time.
• You may inspect and manipulate the pasta during
  planning, but you may not try to place pasta
  pieces together until build time.
• Scoring
• You will receive 1 point for each quarter inch of
  height and up to 15 points each for creativity
  and teamwork.

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Section Five

• Rules

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A reminder

• Read the program guide.
• We cannot possibly cover everything.
• The program guide does cover everything.
• Read it!

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Another reminder

• Have your team read the program guide too!

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A final reminder

• Read the program guide again in January.
• Your team should too!

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Outside assistance

• Teams create all portions of the solution. This
  is where the magic of OotM comes into play.
• As the coach, you will support the team, but
  everything that is created is created by the team
  itself.

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Outside assistance (cont.)

• Outside assistance is often the most confusing
  part of being a coach.
• It doesnt mean you cant help the team!
• But you have to be sure to help them in the
  proper way.

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Outside assistance (cont.)

• You can ask questions!
• But you cant answer them.
• You also cant ask guiding questions.
• You can tell them they need to practice!
• You can teach them a skill!
• But you must teach them on something that wont
  be on their solution.

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Outside assistance (cont.)

• You can teach them specific techniques!
• But you need to teach more than one way of doing
  something.
• The team needs to choose the best way on their
  own!
• You can help them identify which part of a
  solution failed! (ex. in the structure problem)
• But you cant say why it failed or how to fix it.

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The outside assistance packet

• We gave you a QA packet on outside assistance
• Its also on the website
• Read it!

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Cost rules

• The rules for cost changed significantly this
  year.
• These are in the rulebook, be sure to read them.
• The team needs to track costs and save receipts!
• Note that only items that were needed to make
  your final solution are counted in cost.
• Failed attempts dont count against you.

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Section Six

• Tips

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Tips

• We could give you a ton of tips, but that could
  be completely overwhelming.
• So here are just a few
• Practice spontaneous.
• Have an exhibition for your school.
• Read the program guide.
• Ask for help early!

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Tip Practice spontaneous

• Spontaneous must be practiced.
• This is especially true of the difficult
  problems.
• Dont just practice the easy ones!
• Check our website for spontaneous help.

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Tip Have an exhibition

• If there is one thing that I know to help teams,
  its being done on time.
• The best way to be done on time is to give them a
  deadline earlier than the tournament.
• I suggest an exhibition of the problems one month
  before the tournament.
• Having to show their solution to their friends
  will encourage them to get ready.

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Tip Read the program guide

• Need we say it again?
• Read it!

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Tip Ask for help early!

• Email us
• Check our website
• Often! It changes and grows constantly
• Join our Yahoo! group.
• There is a link on the website.

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Section Seven

• Paperwork

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Paperwork

• Common paperwork
• Style
• Cost
• Judge list
• State registration
• Tournament registration

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Style

• Filled out by the team.
• Is the basis for judging style.
• Team decides what to put on it.
• You, and they, should read the style section of
  the program guide.

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Cost

• Cost rules are fairly simple.
• Save your receipts.
• Keep good records.
• Explained in the program guide.

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Judge list

• This is explained in the problem.
• Most problems have one.
• Be sure to fill it out ahead of time.

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State registration

• You receive this email from state as soon as you
  register at the national site.
• Pay early!

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Tournament registration

• Register early!
• This is completed on the Odyssey of the Mind
  website.

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Section Eight

• Fees and deadlines

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Fees and deadlines

• State fees are 55 per school
• Regional fees are 50 per team
• If paid by January 12th
• 70 if paid later
• Orders for regional pins and T-Shirts are due
  January 26th
• Need to be paid in full!

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Section Nine

• People

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People needed

• Each team must provide one judge for tournament
  day.
• Teams not providing judges will not be allowed to
  complete!
• Judges must also attend judge training
• Each team must provide a volunteer for a two hour
  shift.
• Names, email addresses, and phone numbers of
  judges will be needed at the time of registration.

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Any Questions????

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