There is a new Scoreroom International Problem Captain, Jeff Carter. While being an IPC is a new position for him within Odyssey of the Mind, Jeff is a long-time member of the Odyssey family. He has been a volunteer for almost 20 years and has worked in the scoreroom for 12 years.

Jeff has worked on every level and in many volunteer positions within the program. Aside from working in the scoreroom, Jeff has been a coach, school district coordinator, a problem judge, and a regional problem captain. He is also on the regional and state board of Directors and treasurer within NYSOMA. He has been the Assistant Problem Captain for the World Finals scoreroom since 2001.

Aside from his many duties within OotM, he works for Xerox. For the last 35 years, he has been an engineer and manager for both product development and information technology within the company.

OoTM has been a family affair for the Carters. His wife Harriet has been judging for 20 years as well and she has held a variety of judging positions at all levels and in multiple states. Their oldest daughter, Julie, got the family involved in the program as a competitor and started judging as soon as she was out of high school. Even their youngest daughter started volunteering and judging as soon as she was able.

He has many goals in this new position. "When I first started, we were using computers in the score room, but the bulk of the process was all manual -- pen, pencil and calculators. We have spent a lot of time over the past few years working to improve the capabilities of the computer programs that can be used to support a tournament."

Because technology evolves so quickly, Jeff wants to empower associations by enabling them to effectively utilize it, "It is my goal to continue to make technology more accessible to everyone at all levels of the program, no matter how limited an organizations resources might be -- making the scoring process easier, quicker, more accurate, and reliable, and to ensure a balanced approach for implementing these changes," he said.

Outgoing Problem Captain Bob DuBois believes that Jeff will be successful, "Jeff is extremely adept in using our scoring program and has been instrumental in computerizing the score room. I wish him every success as Problem Captain."