If you have bright, creative kids and don't know about Odyssey of the Mind

[Dover]

it's time you did:

http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/

The development of this kind of creative thinking and team work could just save this stuck and weary world. I wish our educational system would train teachers to work this way with ALL kids. This in combination with training in conflict resolution/mediation would go a long way toward creating a peaceful and sustainably productive planet, imo.

[burythehatchet]

1. sounds like

the kind of thing the Department of Peace might promote and fund.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Odyssey of the Mind....

I know it's a serious thing, but I can't help but thinking that it's a great title to a Pink Floyd album, or maybe even a Beatles "LSD days" record....

[Dover]

3. If there are any documentary filmmakers out there, this would be

a fascinating event/process to document...along the lines of the movie "Spellbound" about the national spelling bee contest.