Staffers at Smart Financial Credit Union joined forces and donated funds to help send 11-year-old Sabrina Blum to the 2009 Odyssey of the Mind World Finals at Iowa State University in Ames.
Blum is the daughter of SFCU employee Marcelle Blum, and her River Oaks Elementary team known as Team Broaddus earned a second-place trophy for its humorous play submission, “The Lost Labor of Heracles.”
The Odyssey of the Mind competition is an international educational program that provides creative problem-solving opportunities for students from kindergarten through college. Team members apply their creativity to solve problems that range from building mechanical devices to presenting their own interpretation of literary classics.