Tampa fifth-graders power way to world competition

BY ELIZABETH BEHRMAN, The Tampa Tribune

HYDE PARK – Every Friday after school, Mychael Fenlon’s fifth-grade science classroom turns into an auto shop.

Seven of her students push back the desks, sprawl out on the floor and tinker with their vehicles, adjusting the cogs of the old clock, the rubber bands and the mouse traps that power them.

The St. John’s Episcopal Day School Odyssey of the Mind team has practiced every week since January, and now is putting final touches on its entries for the world finals at Michigan State University on May 22-25.

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