Congratulations to all 9 teams from NoVA North who competed in the 2020 Virtual World Finals, and a special shout out to Dolley Madison Library for winning a Renatra Fusca award!
Dolley Madison Library, McLean, VA 46496 Net Working Division 2
This team showed exceptional risk-taking and creativity in their engineering of all three segments of their network device. Each segment of the device employed multiple mechanisms and energy sources to transmit the information seamlessly from one segment to the next with no team member involvement. Each segment was designed with a multi-step process that activated the following segment, separate from the transfer of the message. Information hovered in the air over the fairy godmother’s magic wand, rushed down the seven dwarves’ mine shaft in a magnet-driven cart, and flew when Robin Hood’s “bow and arrow-plane” was launched.
The competition procedures are explained at the Odyssey of the Mind World Finals web site; this explains why one of the teams has two rankings.
| Problem | Division | Place | School | Membership |
| Net Working | I – A | 26 | WESTBRIAR ELE SCH | 42145 |
| Net Working | II – B
Finalist |
4
7 |
DOLLEY MADISON LIBRARY | 46496 |
| The Effective Detective | I – B | 20 | FOX MILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | 28383 |
| The Effective Detective | I – C | 34 | WAPLES MILL ELE SCH | 27319 |
| The Effective Detective | II – A | 44 | COLVIN RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | 34412 |
| The Effective Detective | II – B | 13 | CHESTERBROOK ELE SCH | 30092 |
| The Effective Detective | III | 21 | LANGLEY H S | 41493 |
| Gibberish or Not | II | 50 | HAYCOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | 6610 |
| Gibberish or Not | II | 51 | WAPLES MILL ELE SCH | 27319 |