AMS 7th Graders Earn Sixth Place Nationally in the
WordMasters Vocabulary Competition for the Year
A team of students representing Ames Middle School recently won
highest honors in the WordMasters Challenge, a national vocabulary
entered by over 27,000 seventh graders from 291 schools nationally.
Competing in the difficult Blue Division the Ames Middle School group
earned sixth place in the nation in the year end cumulative standings.
Two of the school's students won highest honors for year long
individual achievement as well, each of whom made only two
mistakes in the course of the year's three meets. Both placed among the
27 highest ranked seventh graders in the entire country in the year-end
standings.
The WordMaster Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking that
first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting
new words( considereably harder than grade level) and then challenges
them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds
of relationships.
The WordMaster Challenge has been administered for the past 24 years
by a company in Allendale, New Jersey, which is dedicated to inspiring
high achievement in American Schools.
