Holloway students 'master' contest

A team of students representing Holloway Middle School recently won highest honors in the WordMasters Challenge, a national language arts competition entered by over 225,000 students annually.

The WordMasters Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking encouraging students to become familiar with a set of different and more complex words and then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of relationships.

Competing in the difficult "Blue Division" of the challenge and supervised by Margaret Stewart, sixth-grade students placed fourth nationally out of 428 schools competing in this division. The Holloway team finished with a total score of 182 points, just four points shy of first place.

Students who achieved outstanding results in the meet included Jorden Jedrzynski, Chris Kunzman, Jared Raabe, Christian Smith, Troy Hayden, Whitney Seen, Alejandra Serrano, Erin Strickland, Marin King, Alex Davis, Brian Tate, Chelsea Crawford, Sarah Venable, Sophia Wade, Emily Glover, Anna Hayden and Leah Scott.

The school will compete in the two remaining competitions, and medals and certificates will be awarded in May.