Junior and Senior Students Earn WordWright Honors

In this year's third meet of the WordWright Challenge, two teams of Archmere students won high honors. Held in February, the Challenge, a national competition for high school students requiring close reading and analysis of prose and poetry, included 631 school teams from all across the country. Archmere's eleventh graders placed eighth in the nation and the twelfth graders placed twelfth in the nation.

Students who won high individual honors in the meet included juniors Charles Liston, Zoe Akoto, Leah DaCosta, and Alsion Lobo, and seniors John Luke Pileggi-Fraguada and Claire Moosberg. More than 63,000 students from across the country participated in the meet. The students were supervised by Archmere English Department Chair and Teacher, Stephen Klinge.