Way to go, Bobcats!

UPDATE - The team is going on to World Competition! Read more.

Division 2 (Middle School): SBISD teams going on to state

Spring Forest Middle School, 1^st Place

Synopsis of the team’s solution to Problem 3:
A beast, Achromatous, has drained the world of color. She traps the goddess of color in a prism for centuries. The ambassadors of color, Bob Ross and his pet squirrel Peapod, help the citizens of Gris to defeat the beast and rescue the goddess from the prism, thus spreading color back into the world.

Team Members and their roles in the performance (all eighth graders):
Carson Parr: Peapod the squirrel acts as comedic relief and is super outgoing and chaotic. 
Ben Fox: Bob Ross and is the hero who rescues Iris. He has a great stage presence, and he can be super silly or also a serious character which really allowed him to tap into Bob Ross’ hippieness. 
Emily Rump: Achromatous is the beast who traps away Iris. Her work ethic allowed her to succeed in this role. 
Ryn Lane: the narrator
Joanie Ramey: the goddess of color, Iris, and is the one who brings back color to the world. She is a really strong speaker and has a great stage presence.
Beckett Osborn: Hugh, a grandpa citizen in the city who provides the group with vital information in a convincing grandpa voice.
Penelope Guillen: Hazel, one of the city’s inhabitants, and the granddaughter of Hugh. She is like the tour guide for the rescuers.  

A moment when they had to improvise during the regional contest: “We had a prism malfunction at regionals and we lost a peg on one of our backdrop’s turning panels as we went on stage, but we carried on,” said Carson. “Something we weren’t always good at but are better now.”

What have you learned being part of an OM team? ‘I think the number of skills I’ve learned are honestly immeasurable,” said Ryn. “I learned to work quickly, efficiently, and on a time crunch when working on the set and Bob’s wig last minute. Oh, and, money management and working on a tight budget was a HUGE one.”

This team from SFMS has gone all the way to the world championship twice in their three years together. “Because they have worked together for several years now, they have become almost siblings,” said team coach and parent Deanna Parr. “They understand each person’s strengths and weaknesses, and they divided up workload with more understanding of who needed to shoulder what, with no hard feelings.”