HVWS Seventh Grade students Jeremy and Dillon Larkin participated with the Newtown Middle School B team earlier this month at the Odyssey of the Mind States competition at Bristol Eastern High School. Their team met each week and every other Sunday beginning in September to design, rehearse, and deliver a presentation for solving a science problem with which each entry team was charged. A portion of the competition is called the Spontaneous Problem where each team has to solve a problem on the spot with limited tools and supplies. Their team had a perfect score for this portion of the competition and was given an award named after Jill Riggles, a former coach, assistant problem captain, and longtime board member who passed away after a long battle with cancer. In Jill's honor the CTOM Board has created the Jill Riggles Award for Excellence in Spontaneous. This award is given to teams with the highest spontaneous score at the yearly State Tournament in their division.