Archmere Juniors Earn High WordWright Honors; Emily Lugg '19 Earns Perfect Score
In this year's second meet of the WordWright Challenge, the team of Archmere juniors won high honors. Held in December, the Challenge, a national competition for high school students requiring close reading and analysis of prose and poetry, included 647 school teams from all across the country. Archmere's eleventh graders placed fifteenth in the nation among all teams competing at this level.
Students who won high individual honors in the meet included junior Emily Lugg who earned a perfect score, where nationwide only 34 eleventh graders did so. Others who achieved outstanding results included juniors Abel Chen, Lewis MacMillan, and Ian Peebles; and seniors Kyra Giakas, Ryan Nowaczyk, and Grace Zhang. The students were supervised by Stephen Klinge. More than 65,000 students from 48 states participated in the meet.
The texts for the second WordWright meet this year were a short story by Eudora Welty for 9th and 10th graders, and an essay by Verlyn Klinkenborg 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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Students who won high individual honors in the meet included junior Emily Lugg who earned a perfect score, where nationwide only 34 eleventh graders did so. Others who achieved outstanding results included juniors Abel Chen, Lewis MacMillan, and Ian Peebles; and seniors Kyra Giakas, Ryan Nowaczyk, and Grace Zhang. The students were supervised by Stephen Klinge. More than 65,000 students from 48 states participated in the meet.
The texts for the second WordWright meet this year were a short story by Eudora Welty for 9th and 10th graders, and an essay by Verlyn Klinkenborg 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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