Cleveland - Ten Birchwood School students traveled to Canton on March 4 for the regional Power of the Pen competition, and brought home the first and third place team trophies for eighth and seventh grade, respectively. Sarah D, Trevor L, Prithvi P, Hassan S, Daniel W, and Hannah Y constituted the first place eighth grade team. Joan C, Dhweeja D, Katelyn V, and Naomi W comprise the seventh grade students who won the third place trophy.
The Power of the Pen is an Ohio interscholastic writing competition where schools are represented by teams of six. These young writers demonstrate their imagination and creative writing skills by writing three impromptu narratives in a single morning. They compete individually as well as a team and can advance from the district level through regional and state contests.
Four Birchwood students received special recognition for their performance in individual rounds of writing. Katelyn V finished third among all seventh grade writers and also received the honor of “Best of Round” for writing the best essay in Round I. Naomi W came in fourth, Joan C placed eleventh, and Trevor L finished in fourteenth place among several hundred writers who competed. These students along with Hannah Y will be going on to the state competition at the end of May at Wooster College.
