At the Power of the Pen competition our 8th graders brought home the 2nd place team trophy and the 7th graders, the 3rd place trophy! Katelyn V won 1st place as an individual. You have to read the list of other distinguished honors achieved by our writers below.
Birchwood students competed in Pepper Pike on
February 25, Saturday, at the district Power of the
Pen writing competition where they went up against
fifteen other schools. Students wrote three narratives
to three different prompts in forty-minute sessions.
Congratulations to all the participants who brought home
these coveted trophies and awards:
Third place for the seventh grade team: Anthony C,
Prathna K, Pheby L, Ammar L, Megan P, Michael T,
Haley Y.
Second place for the eighth grade team: Peter A, Clive
C, Joan C, Kavya R, Naomi W, Katelyn V.
Megan P placed seventh among the seventh graders,
while Naomi W, Joan C, and Katelyn V received the
tenth, third, and first place trophies.
“Best of Rounds” went to Megan P in Round 3, while
she and Ammar L each received an Honorable Mention
for the other rounds.
Thank you very much to Mark Gianetti and Antoinette
Abou Haidar who provided much needed help with
transportation and assistance in the tab room.
