Three Carthage Odyssey of the Mind teams qualify for World Finals!

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Congratulations to the Fairview Elementary, Carthage Junior High and Carthage High School Odyssey of the Mind teams on qualifying for World Finals competition!

Odyssey of the Mind is an international educational program that provides creative problem-solving opportunities for students from kindergarten through college. Team members apply their creativity to solve problems that range from building mechanical devices to presenting their own interpretation of literary classics. They then bring their solutions to competition on the local, state, and World level. Thousands of teams from throughout the U.S. and from about 25 other countries participate in the program.

18 Carthage students and five coaches will travel to World Finals at Michigan State University on May 26. In addition to a grant of $100 per person from the Carthage R-9 School Foundation, several fundraisers are planned to raise the $500 per person needed to attend.

Please help our Odyssey of the Mind teams by supporting the following:

May 1

City-wide Rummage Sale and Biscuits & Gravy Feed - 7:30 AM to 2:00 PM at Fairview Elementary School. Donations of rummage sale items will be accepted at Fairview school from 4 – 7:30 PM on Friday, April 30.  Donations of food supplies and paper goods for the Biscuits & Gravy Feed are also welcomed.
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Kent F. Thompson Class of 1986Commander, United States Navy Immediately upon graduation from the R9 school district, now-Commander Thompson reported to the Naval Academy as a Midshipman.  He has spent the majority of his 23 years in uniform as an operational Combat Search and Rescue pilot.  He has deployed in USS SARATOGA, USS CARL VINSON and USS NIMITZ, most recently for Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM.  He is a Weapons and Tactics Flight Instructor in Seahawk aircraft.  He has served as the Strike Operations officer for the Navy’s west coast Carrier Aviation training command.  He was the operations briefing officer for the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while at the Pentagon, and currently serves...

A 1990 graduate of Carthage High School, Troy Comeau resides in Carthage.  He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication from Missouri Southern State University, a Master of Arts degree in communication from Pittsburg State University, and completed his Ph.D. in Communications at the University of Missouri-Columbia in late 2007.  Troy joined the faculty of Pitt State in the fall of 1998.  In 2003 he was appointed Director of Broadcasting.  Under his guidance, students have received awards at both the state and national level for their work in audio and video production.  Dr. Comeau’s class in Sports Broadcasting has consistently placed as a national finalist for the Best Live Sports Production in the Collegiate Broadcasting Student awards.   The Kansas Association of Broadcasters...