Odyssey of the Mind
This international academic extracurricular competition asks students to work in collaborative teams to solve complex problems of all types. Coached by parents outside of school hours, Assumption students have done well in this competition traditionally and often compete at the regional, state and world level. We are multi-year Regional, and State champions and have competed in World competition placing in top 15 several times.
Congrats to our ABVM Odyssey of the Mind Teams placing 6th and 11th in 2021 World Finals!
Congratulations to our 7th grade team for placing 6th in World Finals! Congratulations to our 8th grade team for placing 11th in World Finals!
ABVM teams placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd at the 2021 Odyssey of the Mind Southern California State Championships!
Congratulations to Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s (ABVM) 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Odyssey of the Mind teams for winning the Southern California tournament! Our teams placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd! All three teams will be competing in the World Finals! Odyssey of...
Assumption Places in TOP 12 in the 2020 Odyssey of the Mind WORLD Finals!
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary School’s (ABVMS) Odyssey of the Mind teams missed out on state finals because of the pandemic, but 3 chose to compete at the virtual World finals! Shout out to ABVM’s 5th grade team who placed in the top 12 in the World Finals for...
ABVM teams placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd at the 2020 Los Angeles Regional Odyssey of the Mind Competition: We will be sending 5 teams to the State Championships!
We will be sending 5 teams to the State Championships in March! Go Gators! Assumption showed up in force at the Los Angeles regional Odyssey of the Mind competition at Westlake High School on Saturday Feb 22, 2020. We had 8 teams participate! These amazing kids worked...
Odyssey of the Mind Champions at Assumption School
Assumption students have been participating in the Odyssey of the Mind competition for over 10 years. When the school first learned about the competition, our teachers knew this was perfect for our students. Odyssey of the Mind is all about teaching kids to creatively...
LA REGIONAL Odyssey of the Mind champions 2020!!!
Assumption showed up in force at the Los Angeles regional Odyssey of the Mind competition at Westlake High School on Saturday Feb 22, 2020. We had 8 teams participate!
These amazing kids worked so hard! We will be sending 5 teams to the State Championships in March! Go Gators!
Longshot Solution Division II
1st Place: ABVM Team A
2nd Place: ABVM Team B
Net Working Division II
2nd Place ABVM Team A
Balsa Limbo Division I
2nd Place: ABVM Team B
3rd Place: ABVM Team A
CA STATE & LA Regional Odyssey of the Mind champions 2019!!!
The ABVM 8th grade team won the California Statewide competition, making them 2019 STATE CHAMPIONS!
The ABVM 6th grade team won 3rd Place in State for 2019!
For the 1st time ever, Assumption is sending a team to the World Championships for Odyssey of the Mind! This year Opening Ceremonies will take place on Wednesday, May 22 at Michigan State University. Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be filled with competitions and other creative activities. The teams will present their solutions to the Long Term Problems. World Finals will culminate by crowning the World Champions of Creative Problem Solving during the Awards Ceremony on Saturday, May 25, 2019
ABVM teams were awarded 1st place in LA Regionals for their division in 2015 & 2nd Place in 2018
Odyssey of the Mind – Structure