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District 15 Students Earn Perfect WordMasters Scores
Student teams from gifted classes in several District 15 schools earned top scores in WordMasters Challenge, a national competition for students in Grades 3-8 designed to encourage growth in vocabulary and verbal reasoning. In addition, 12 students had perfect scores.
Pleasant Hill School teacher Megan Schlobohm’s team placed first in the nation in the fourth-grade gold division and Linda Parr’s team at Hunting Ridge School placed sixth in the nation among 269 teams competing at this grade level and division, the most difficult division. In the sixth-grade gold division, Marcia Rydquist’s team from Hunting Ridge School placed ninth in the nation out of 203 teams.
Seven third and fourth graders earned perfect scores: Jacob Shereda, Denae Gerasta, and Michelle Ling, all Pleasant Hill third graders; Susan Szuch, Josh Vorick, and Robbie Ng, all Pleasant Hill fourth graders; and fourth grader Sam Corzine, Hunting Ridge. They were among just 27 students nationwide to earn perfect scores of the 7,390 students who competed at that grade level.
In the sixth-grade division, five students earned perfect scores: Elizabeth Tokarz, fifth grade, and Lia Pagones and Maya Trilling, sixth graders, all from Hunting Ridge; fifth grader Kevin Krout, Thomas Jefferson; and Amanda Engel, fifth grade, Marion Jordan. Nationally, 111 students at this level had perfect scores.
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