From 1985-1991, I competed in Odyssey of the Mind. (Side rant: Odyssey of the Mind was originally known as Olympics of the Mind back when I began participating. Apparently the aggressive and somewhat litigious International Olympic Committee forced the name change — not that there was any chance of people confusing a bunch of underaged geeks building crap out of cardboard, paper mache’ and poster paints with a gathering of international atheletes, but whatever. The O in OM (which is all we ever called it anyway) was quietly changed from “Olympics” to “Odyssey” and we all carried on about our… (read more)