Another World Finals Appearance for Lewisburg Odyssey of the Mind
LEWISBURG – A history making team of young women from the Lewisburg Area School District are going to world competition for Odyssey of the Mind. The school district says it’s the second time Lewisburg has been to world competition, and the first time the team is all women. Six Lewisburg finalists head to world O-M competition Ames, Iowa from May 25-28.
The district tells us, six students from Donald Eichhorn Middle School and Linntown Elementary, coached by Chris Kisvarday, Susannah Kisvarday, and Linda Smolka, captured first place for their category in the Pennsylvania states championship contest in April.
This year, the team of six young women—Clara Graham, Ceili Kisvarday, Abby Ryu, Rachel Ryu, Maya Sak, and Linghan Wan—wrote and performed a short, completely original musical about the life of Harriet Quimby, the first American woman to earn a pilot’s license and the first woman to ever fly across the English Channel.
In 2019, five of the six young women on this team qualified for their first World competition, and prior to that, the only other time that a team from Lewisburg had reached the finals was in 2015.
Odyssey of the Mind is a volunteer-run, international creative problem-solving problem program for K-12 students in which they learn the value of brainstorming and teamwork.
