Top hat takes to the road

A LARGE top hat comes to
life in a play written by a
Cassie Hall grade 4 class for
the Odyssey of the Mind
competition,

The play was good enough
to get the youngsters first
place in their division at the
regional level. That means
theyll be heading off to
provincial compctition,
April 16 in Kamloops.

The win came asa big sur-
prise to both coach Carla
Eide and her seven students.
All were new to Odyssey of
the “Mind competition and
had just hoped to do their
best.

Odyssey of the Mind is an
international organization
with an aim toward getting
students to work creatively
in a team. All the ideas and
work must be produced by
the students.

- Competitions take place at
a regional, provincial and
international level,

Cassie Hall sent two leams
to the regional competition
on March 7 in Prince
Rupert,

“We were shacked when
we heard we wou,”’ said
young Alyssa Carson, who
co-directed the top hat play
with Tyler Finnie.

The category the team
competed in is called
“‘Creale and Animate.’* Stu-
dents create and present a
bumowrous —_— performance
where an inanimate object
comes to Life. Accompany-
ing the performance must be
an: original poem or song
and original music.

Before they wrote the play
students were torn between
using a top hat or a twist tie

OFF TO PROVINCIALS — The grade four Odyssey of the Mind team at Cassie

Hall is going to the provincial competition in Kamloops next week, The team is
Elise Brais, Alyssa Carson, Emily Rusche, Leaha Broome, Stacey Lopushinsky,

Tyler Finnie and Brian Lanberg, with coach Carla Eide.

vole settled the matter.

So the students created the
large top hat, leaving room
for actor Stacey
Lopushinsky to stick her
ams through.

The hat comes alive as the
student actors draw arms,
eyes, mouth nose and morc.

Finally Stacey gels legs
and dances off stage saying,
‘‘]'m going to New York to
get me some hunks.”’

That line was made by
Alyssa, she points out,

In preparation for the
Kamloops competition stu-
dents are reworked the play,
trying to put in more
humour. So they changed
one character to Daisy
Flower —- a hippie news
reporter.

“It’s been an emotional
experience,” says Eide of
coaching the team. There
were a few tears before the
Prince Rupert performance,
but she thinks getting that
over with helped the team.

Trying their besi, then
winning first place is what
impressed Elise Brais, an-
other student actor, the
most,

Team mate Leaha Broome
liked the personalities they
created for the play — such
as forgetful, clumsy and
rocker.

In order to get the mini-
mum $2,000 needed for the
trip students have been
soliciting donations from
the community. The
response has been very good

so far, says Bide.
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Cassie Hall students aren’t
the only ones heading to the
provincial competition.

Uplands Elementary sent
four teams to the regional
and the grades 47
camouflage creation team
qualified for provincials.

And Clarence Michael is
also sending two teams to
provincials. All arc in grade
six. The boy’s team, the one
which went to the world
competition last year, is
going again to the provin-
cials.

The girls team also
qualified last year but didn’t
travel. This year parents
have given thumbs up to the
trip, so they'll go as well,

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