Lonna Walker has been involved with our program for more than 30 years. She was responsible for bringing DI to her school district and served as a school coordinator for most of those 30+ years.  Because of her leadership, decades of students were introduced to our program.  She’s a former Team Manager who has served in just about every other role there is – Regional Director, Regional Tournament Director, Regional Challenge Master.  She’s was a long-time member of the OKC governing board and was actually instrumental in organizing OKC when we came into existence.   

One of the earliest Global creative problem solving tournaments was held in 1984 in Akron.  Liz Odland-Keister was an appraiser at that tournament.  Because of this experience, she helped introduce our program in two rural southern Ohio school districts – one where she worked and one where her daughters attended school.  She’s served as a District Coordinator, Team Manager, Regional and Affiliate Challenge Master, member of the OKC board for many years – and still serves as an Instant Challenge appraiser 40 years after her first tournament.  

Kent Covert is an alum of our program who was on some of Ohio’s earliest teams.  After graduating, he stayed involved and eventually developed the scoring program that is still used around the world to implement DI’s Universal Scaled Scoring.  He’s been on the International score room team for several years and has helped lead the way to introduce mobile scoring, online TDFs, online raw score delivery and virtually every other enhancement in scoring.  And, he never forgot his roots – continuing to serve as Ohio score master and helping many of our regions on tournament day.  He has truly earned the title “score master”. 

Jim Martz has worn many hats over the course of his 25+ years in creative problem solving - from Team Manager and School Coordinator to Board member, Regional Director and Tournament Director - many times wearing multiple hats in one year.  Even though he hasn't had children in the program for many years, he continues to devote countless hours to the program.  He is always willing to do whatever needs to be done to give our students the most awesome and fair experience possible.  He is a "details person" - leading the silent auction at Affiliate Tournament for many years, soliciting items and meticulously pairing pins and t-shirts to make the most money to support our program.  There's never been anything we've asked Jim to do that he hasn't.