The team S.O.S. (Students of Saint-Petersburg) is an amalgamation of creative students from different universities of St. Petersburg: Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI", the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, North-west Academy of Public Administration.

Odyssey of the Mind is an international educational program that provides creative problem-solving opportunities for students from 5 through 23. The nonstandard problems help to develop in children and students their creative thinking that predetermines success in the life. Thanks to participation in this program children and students get an opportunity to develop their creative abilities, visit different countries and find new friends. Students can progress in different professions such as designers, actors and directors, composers and poets, script-writers and journalists. They study to make props and costumes and use different technical means.

Children have a nice possibility to make new friends and to talk to children the same age as them from many other countries of the world.

Our teem has participated in this program since 2007. By now we had already been on EuroFestivals in Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Belorussia, Poland, on international camp in Slovakia, on World Finals in U.S.A. We had won regional championships in Saint-Petersburg and Belarus, EuroFestival in Poland.

Many of competitors have been in that project for many years, and “Odyssey of the Mind” is a special world for them, which combines people and gives them an opportunity to fulfill themselves:

“Odyssey of the Mind” lets you find out your hidden possibilities, which you never really knew before. You begin to think in a different way and see usual things from absolutely different point of view. (Pchitskaya Ekaterina)

It’s a nice practice of English, acting. Participating in this program helps you become friends with children from other countries. (Savelieva Elizaveta)

The main thing for me is communicating with new interesting people. It doesn’t matter what city or country they are from, it’s more important that they are all of them very kind and friendly. (Narmania Guram)

“Odyssey” is a competition, which combines people in one big and very friendly team, that lives in a good mood every day. (Strelskiy Alexander)

It’s a perfect possibility to fulfill yourself, to feel inspiration and to began thinking creatively in a hard time. (Andreev Sergey)

For me it’s a very important project. It helps you to realize your talents, to distract and relax during “hard” school days. (Nazarova Veronika)

This program combines people under the aegis of creativity and kindness. It fills your life with sunny and bright events. (Nikulina Julia)

“Odyssey” – is a wonderful possibility to find new friends, to see the world and to feel yourself a part of the beauty! (Osipov Valeriy)

“Odyssey of the Mind” is more than a game or any other educational program. It’s the world, bright and full of happiness, where you can trust your imagination and share it with your friends. (Meshcheryakova Maria)

“Odyssey” – is a life, that you simply have to live. (Korobeinikova Tatiana)

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