Monday, January 13, 2020 is the due date for all Nova East Odyssey of the Mind team registrations and payments for our regional meet on March 14, 2020 at West Potomac H.S. Prior to registering your team, you must register a judge that will represent your team by attending judges’ training on February 29 and spend all day on March 14 judging other teams for our region. As an all-volunteer organization, the meet cannot run without committed volunteers to serve these roles.
If you haven’t secured a judge for your team, first ask the parents of the team members if one of them would be willing to step up. While it will mean they will be unable to see their child perform on March 14, it is a very important way they can contribute. If no one is able to make that commitment, have them ask other family members (18 and up), neighbors, friends, or teachers.
Once you have a judge, they will need to register online using the link from our website on the registration page. The coach or coordinator may want to sit with the judge to help them register since they may want to know a little bit more about the type of problems they may want to pick to judge: however, coaches, please do NOT register your judge for them. It is important they do it so they are able to give some preference as to what they will judge. Make they click YES for representing the team and have the accurate information to fill out the information below.
Schools also need to find other volunteers to register to work for 2 hours at the regional meet helping with concessions, team check-in, and other important roles. Many parents/teachers/friends are willing to fill this small role, and these people are also crucial to the success of the day. They also will need to register online, and they will be contacted prior to the event to let them know the time slot and position.
