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[quote=Anonymous]OP, go the Odyssey web site and look at the FAQ link there. It's somewhat buried on the site but it addresses the question. Your child could potentially join another school's team but a school team is permitted only one student from outside that school (and can say no) so your child might or might not find a spot on another school's team. Some other organizations besides schools can form teams -- see the FAQs -- but since you must have a certain minimum number on the team, it seems like it would be hard to put together a team at, say, a church, unless it had a large enough group of committed kids of the right ages etc.

Participation does have to be team-based so your best bet would be to step forward and organize this at your kid's school yourself! Note that a team is not required to compete -- so maybe you could spend the first year getting the program together and choose not to compete that year but work toward competing the following year--?

Another option could be Science Olympiad if your child is interested in science topics. That also is team-based and school-based. It's focused obviously on sciences but does have a wide range of topics--from entomology to geology to maps and geography, and it also has "building events" where students construct things like battery-powered mini vehicles, gliders and roller coasters. It's another option if Odyssey doesn't work out. Full disclosure, our family is involved on Science Olympiad so I'm more familiar with it but I have heard great things about Odyssey of the Mind!

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