OM Update

Phew! Winter and Spring have been a whirlwind of OM workdays. These kiddos sure worked hard and have had to push themselves in many ways this season.

***Add - Pic 4322 Will go here...From Feb 20th

Makin's job is to build the structure for their challenge.
It takes hours to build one structure.
Then they crush it. Build it, crush it, try again.
It's been hard for him, but he has done a great job.

He has listened to a lot of audiobooks through the process.
The Hobbit was a hit, but we are having him wait for the rest of the series.

This beard may be my favorite part of their skit.
Makin and Charlie made it on one work day.

Painting the Coat of Arms.

Candy Crew made jewelry. (They are supposed to showcase their talents...) 
Lillian does this as a business Lorelei loved learning! 

Lots of hard work on their backdrop!

Spontaneous practice.
This time they had to build something with the materials and then describe what it could do.

The garage is bursting at the seams with two teams on a Saturday.

Hurry up and dry paint!

Because we had no regional competition, we asked friends to come and be judges to give us feedback on how to improve. It was extremely helpful and I'm so grateful they were willing to do this for us.

A typical day at our house. Makin working on a structure and Lorelei working on their backdrop.

Redoing their weather setting.

How much bubble wrap and styrofoam does it take to wrap a structure and have it shipped?!
A lot.

Shipped!
We had a very discouraging moment after this.
There was a rule surrounding the structure that Brad understood differently than the judges meant.
Because of this, the judges gave the structure zero points. This was a huge blow to the team.
The structure was worth a huge percent of their score. Brad fought for the judges to change their minds, but they wouldn't budge. Makin's structure, which weighed 15 grams, held 255.5 lbs.
This didn't count. It was scored at zero.
To say he was discouraged and sad-mad is an understatement.

This day we showed the teams their filmed skits.
Then they practiced for their virtual spontaneous competition and then competed.
Then it was time for some time off while we waited for results.

Candy Crew! 1st Place!

Dwarf Knights! 2nd Place!
(This was a MAJOR surprise. Apparently, only one team was scored on their structure, which held 49 pounds. If we would have scored we would have had 1st. They earned the points for second with their skit and spontaneous.)



Both teams were allowed a chance to travel to Worlds OM in Florida. The majority of Makin's team decided they did not want to put forth the time and money to go, but we have made adjustments to Lorelei's team and we are taking a new and improved Candy Crew, including Makin, Charlie and Sophia. SO this means we still have workdays (although most weeks it is only once a week) and we will be traveling to compete mid-June! We can't wait for the kids to have this experience after all their hard work this season!