Library system sponsors reading competition
Winning first place in the Greene County Reading Competition at the high school level were Reading Raiders from Waynesburg Central High School. Team members are, from left, Emily Rockwell, Claire Kreider, Makayla Rogers, Katie Remsing, Matthew Desrosiers and Ayana Sicheri.
The second-place winners in the Greene County Reading Competition at the high school level was Order of the Phoenix from West Greene High School. Team members are, from left, Daniel Salai, Morgan Stover and Tyler Whipkey.
WAYNESBURG – The Greene County Reading Competition was held Wednesday at Waynesburg University.
Teams from West Greene, Central Greene and Jefferson-Morgan competed. There were approximately 80 students competing on 13 teams in the elementary, middle and high school level.
Winning first place on the high school level were the Reading Raiders from Waynesburg Central High School. Team members were Emily Rockwell, Claire Kreider, Makayla Rogers, Katie Remsing, Matthew Desrosiers and Ayana Sicheri.
The second-place winner was Order of the Phoenix from West Greene High School. Team members were Daniel Salai, Morgan Stover and Tyler Whipkey.
The first-place middle school team was Margaret Bell Miller’s Word Wizards. Team members were Mahala Marshall, Rachel Hutton, Catherine Thompson, Eden Rogers, Amber Warren, Dylan Scritchfield, Myles Cramer and Brooke Meek.
The second-place award in the middle school level went to West Greene’s Book Commanders. Team members were Kylie Simms, Sydney Fredericks, Gavin Scott, Daniel Kennedy, Max Cunningham (team captain), and Brock Bedilion.
First place in the elementary school level went to Bookinators from Graysville Elementary. Team members were Ben Archer, Lexie VanDyne, Chase Blake, Dani Fox, Morgan Mooney, Hailie Gaso, Elizabeth Brudnock and McKinley Whipkey.
Second place went to Graysville’s Tie Dye Readers. Team members were Macey Whipkey, Jordan Karvan, BreAnn Jackson, Olicia Kiger, Anna Durbin, Brooke Barner, Carly Stockdale and Piper Whitlatch.
The event was sponsored by the Greene County Library System.
Last May, teams in each of the three age levels were given a list of 20 books to read. Each students was not required to read all of them, but it was suggested that the 20 books should be read by the team as a whole.
At the competition, there were three rounds of 20 questions asked of the teams, questions taken from the list of books provided to the teams last year.
Therese Barry, administrator of the library system, said once a question was asked, the team would confer and the captain would give the answer.
“Maybe one student read three of the books, another read two of them, and a third, four of them,” she said. “The idea was that the team as a whole should have read all 20 of them.”