Long Beach Students Earn Top Scores in WordMasters Challenge

Elementary school students in the Long Beach Public Schools Learning Activities to Raise Creativity program achieved outstanding results in their first WordMasters Challenge meet of the school year.

A team of fourth-graders representing East, Lido, Lindell, West and Long Beach Catholic Regional schools tied for the fourth highest score in the nation out of 352 schools in their division.

Nearly 150,000 students participate in this national vocabulary competition each year. Fourth-grade LARC students Ava Liguori, Hailey Brandt, Brendan Hellman, William Pagan, Owen Murphy, Rio Orengo, Jared Tate, Jake Bradley, Jacob LoCascio, Brady Romano, Jack Valentin, Oliver Reiger, John Chigounis, Daniel Quick and Noah Robinson scored 188 points out of a possible 200 in the difficult Blue Division. Ava earned a perfect score of 20, as did third-grader Troy DeFrancesco and fifth-grader Ariana Thomas. These results were achieved by only 75 out of 5,623 third-graders, 99 out of 6,615 fourth-graders and 17 out of 7,111 fifth-graders nationally. Additionally, third-graders Gabriel Da Silva, Mateo Gomez, Zachary Kramer, Dean Parenti, Michael Rossi and Hunter Stadtman received high honors in their divisions.

Under the direction of LARC teachers Mrs. Beverlee Bertinetti and Dr. Caitlin Fuentes, Long Beach students compete in the WordMasters Challenge each year and have a longstanding history of success. The WordMasters Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking that first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words and then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships.

Submitted by Long Beach Schools

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