For Immediate Release
January 25, 2013
For more information, call:
Paula Watkins, Principal (502) 459-3088

(Louisville, KY) Several students representing St. Francis of Assisi School (1938 Alfresco Place) recently received perfect scores in the first of three meets for this year’s WordMasters Challenge™—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 150,000 students annually.

Competing in the difficult “Blue Division” of the WordMasters Challenge™, seventh graders Sam Belza, Luca Sanchez, and eighth graders Christine Lipscomb, Cassie Drury, and Sarah Santry earned perfect scores of 20 in the December meet. Nationally, only 23 seventh graders and 28 eighth graders achieved a perfect score. Other students at St. Francis of Assisi who achieved outstanding results in the meet include fifth graders Ellie Hummel and Jack Calvery; sixth grader Ellie Dunham; seventh graders Conner Lynn and Lauryn Grady; and eighth graders Holly Zoeller and Lindsay Haffner. The students were coached in preparation for the WordMasters Challenge™ by Pamela Conway and Jody Bolduc.

The WordMasters Challenge™ is an exercise in critical thinking that first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words (considerably harder than grade level), and then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships. Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically. Although most vocabulary enrichment and analogy-solving programs are designed for use by high school students, WordMasters Challenge™ materials have been specifically created for younger students in grades three through eight. They are particularly well suited for children who are motivated by the challenge of learning new words and enjoy the logical puzzles posed by analogies.

The WordMasters Challenge™ program is administered by a company based in Indianapolis, Indiana, which is dedicated to inspiring high achievement in American schools. Further information is available at the company’s website: http://www.wordmasterschallenge.com.

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