The Coordinator’s Role

What does a Coordinator in the Odyssey of the Mind program do?

1. Meet with interested students and parents to explain the Odyssey of the Mind Program.
2. Organize students into teams.
3. Establish coaches for each team. Teams cannot be formed without coaches.
4. Get teams started:
   Meet with teams after school to help them create themes, scripts, ideas for problem solutions. This should expected from the point of team formation until Christmas vacation.
5. If requested, the coordinator may continue to meet with teams one time per week to monitor progress.
6. Act as liaison between parents, coaches, students, administrators, teachers, and your Buccaneer Bay Florida Odyssey of the Mind Regional Director.
7. Meet with the coaches as a group to answer questions about team progress (or lack of!) and to answer any other questions.
8. Help coaches with required paper work.
9. Provide many materials (spontaneous books, videos, handbooks).
10. Help find required judges and workers for the regional tournament.
11. Resister teams with the state and international organization.
12. Be available by phone or e-mail almost any hour of the day or night (only a slight exaggeration) to help solve any problems you may be having.
13. Organize dress rehearsal the week before state tournament, if requested.
14. BE YOUR BIGGEST MEANS OF SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT AND YOUR ALL ROUND CHEERLEADER.
15. Almost anything else…other than coaching.