Sanjay Long '21 and Christian Miller '21 Earn Perfect Scores at Second WordWright Meet
Two teams of students representing Archmere Academy recently won high honors in this year’s WordWright Challenge, a national competition for high school students requiring close reading and analysis of many different kinds of prose and poetry. Participating with 686 school teams from all across the country, the school’s eleventh graders tied for eighth place in the nation in the year’s second meet, held in December, among all teams competing at this grade level. At the same time, the school’s twelfth graders tied for fifteenth place in the nation.
Students at the school who achieved outstanding individual results in the meet included juniors Sanjay Long and Christian Miller (both of whom earned perfect scores), Gabriella Gildea, Camron Kaiser, Lily Sabine, and Aislin Smeader; and seniors Caroline Antunes, Madi Downey, Kaylee Paranczak, Rishi Subbaraya, Ciara Trigg, and Lisa Zeng. The students were supervised by Stephen Klinge.
The texts for the second WordWright meet this year were a poem by Robert Frost for 9th and 10th graders and an essay by Stephen Jay Gould for 11th and 12th graders. The students will participate in two more meets over the coming months, and medals and certificates will be awarded in June to those who achieve and/or progress the most in the course of the year.
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The texts for the second WordWright meet this year were a poem by Robert Frost for 9th and 10th graders and an essay by Stephen Jay Gould for 11th and 12th graders. The students will participate in two more meets over the coming months, and medals and certificates will be awarded in June to those who achieve and/or progress the most in the course of the year.
Archmere Academy is a private, Catholic, college preparatory co-educational academy,
grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.
grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.
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