Originality

Coming up with new and unique ideas.
Originality is when everybody starts off with the same task but ends up with all kinds off different solutions for their final answer. That's being a one of a kind thinker. 

Try an exercise that measures your skill of originality.  Look at the pictures below. What do you think they are?
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Check out our originality responses.  If you had some that we didn't, then give yourself 1 originality point.  You can do this with all kinds of shapes or doodles. Have some fun with your friends.  The more you do these the better you'll become.


There are competitions that focus on creativity and especially recognize your original ideas. During Odyssey of the Mind Competitions or Creative Competitions, teams of seven students begin with one of five problems.  In this year's Problem #2: Pest Aside, students were challenged with the problem to create three different contraptions that would perform events.  The team created a character that was supposed to scare or capture the "pest".  Teams came up with everything from pesty love bugs trying to make a French girl fall in love to pesty "fads" trying to influence teenagers.  Check out our local teams.

Odyssey of the Mind Team
 
Creative competitors work as a team.
 
 
Fluency and Flexibility  Teamwork
SCAMPER Elaboration
Originality Beyond
 
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