Bringing in Experts
Bringing In Experts
Even though your team may have lots of experience with Odyssey of the Mind and/or other activities, you may still want to bring in experts to teach your team a skill or maybe just to be a different messenger. You may have experts dropping off and picking up team members on a regular basis in the form of parents. Many parents have talents from which your team can benefit. Just like team members, parents come with many different backgrounds and experience. Take a few moments to get to know the parents of your team members and what interests them. Other experts come in the form of teachers. Teachers in the areas of art, music, drama, tech, shop, consumer sciences, etc. can teach skills to your team without you having to know it all. Additional experts can be found in your local community, service groups, churches and community colleges. Below is a list of some of the ways experts have taught team members:
- Constructing principles
- Robotics & electronics
- Sewing
- Arts & crafts
- Music
- Dancing
- Computers
- Theatre
- Teambuilding
- Managing a large project
- Engineering
Bringing in experts is a great way to teach your team many new skills that can help them to solve their problem. Please remind your experts though that they cannot provide the team’s actual solution. They can teach them skills in their area of expertise, but they cannot work on the team’s solution.