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Olivia
Ewry, Botkins eighth grader, can’t believe she won Best of Round 3.
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DeColores,
Versailles take honors at 2014 POP
Fort Loramie JHS top 7th, Tippecanoe Middle School top 8th grade teams
DARKE COUNTY – DeColores Montessori of Greenville and Versailles Middle
School took multiple honors Feb. 15 at the 2014 District Power of the
Pen Competition in Botkins. Among the top award winners were Hunter
Cuyler at DeColores, Lauren Durham, Versailles and the Eighth Grade
Team of Versailles.
Cuyler won Best of Round 1 for his essay on an item no longer wanted by
its owners. He also took top writing honors for the seventh grade
competition with a composite score of the maximum 300 points. Durham
took fifth place in the eighth grade competition with a composite score
of 284 points, while the eighth grade Versailles team, coached by Deb
Tyo took second place in the competition with a total point ranking of
1605.
Placing in the top 10 for eighth grade were Andrew Heckman, tied for
7th, and Tessa Tyo, 8th, each with 290 composite points out of 300.
Both are students at Versailles. Tyo also received an Honorable Mention
for Round 1 Best of Round.
Districts participating in the 2014 Power of the Pen District
competition were Bradford Schools, DeColores Montessori School,
Franklin Monroe Local School, Mississinawa Valley Local School,
Versailles Middle School, Anna Middle School, Botkins Local School,
Coldwater Middle School, Fort Loramie JHS, Houston Middle School,
Jackson Center Schools, Minster Middle School, New Bremen Middle and
Tippecanoe Middle School.
The top four seventh grade teams were: Tippecanoe Middle School,
Versailles Middle School, Fort Loramie JHS and New Bremen Middle. The
top four eighth grade teams were: Fort Loramie JHS, Minster Middle
School, Tippecanoe Middle School and Anna Middle School.
Best of Round winners for seventh grade were: Hunter Cuyler, DeColores;
Riley Middendorf, Fort Loramie; and Riley Swaitout, Tippecanoe. Best of
Round winners for eighth grade were: Katie Paulus, New Bremen; Bryan
Dippold, Coldwater; and Olivia Edry, Botkins.
Top 12 seventh grade contestants were: Hunter Cuyler, DeColores; Riley
Middendorf, Fort Loramie; Gina Langenkamp, Coldwater; Michelle
Altstaetter, Botkins; Joe Ballas, Fort Loramie; Tori Barge, Fort
Loramie; Addie White, Houston; Annie Livesay, Tippecanoe; Ashleigh
Jurosic, Anna; Chloe Stang, Fort Loramie; Madeline Magoto, Minster; and
Maddie May, Tippecanoe.
Top 12 eighth grade contestants were: Bryn Dippold, Coldwater; Brooke
Raterman, Fort Loramie; Taylor Hudson, Tippecanoe; Lauren Wyant,
Tippecanoe; Lauren Durham, Versailles; Abby Walker, Tippecanoe; Andrew
Heckman, Versailles; Alissa Buynak, Tippecanoe; Tessa Tyo, Versailles;
Katie Paulus, New Bremen; Madeleine Erb, New Bremen; Hattie Meyer, Fort
Loramie; and Adrienne Laughman, New Bremen.
Point rankings are determined by a team of judges. Best of Round judges
for 2014 were Elaine Schweller-Snyder, journalism teacher and yearbook
advisor at Leyman Catholic School, Patricia Ann Speelman, Local Life
Editor at Sidney Daily News and Bob Robinson, Associate Editor at The
Early Bird, Greenville.
Revised and
published courtesy of The Early Bird
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Hundreds
of seventh and eighth graders competed for writing honors at Botkins
Local School Feb. 15.
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Early
Bird’s Associate Editor Bob Robinson, Best of Round judge, stands with
the seventh grade Best of Round 1 winner, Hunter Cuyler, DeColores
Montessori School.
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Sidney
Daily News Local Life Editor Patricia Ann Speelman, Best of Round
judge, stands with the seventh grade Best of Round 2 winner, Riley
Middendorf, Fort Loramie Junior High School.
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Leyman
Catholic School journalism teacher Elaine Schweller-Snyder, Best of
Round judge, stands with the seventh grade Best of Round 3 winner,
Riley Swaitout, Tippecanoe Middle School.
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Robinson
stands with eighth grade Best of Round 1 winner Katie Paulus, New
Bremen Middle School.
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Speelman
stands with eighth grade Best of Round 2 winner Bryn Dippold, Coldwater
Middle School.
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Schweller-Snyder
stands with eighth grade Best of Round 3 winner Olivia Ewry, Botkins
Local School.
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Hunter
Cuyler, DeColoris Montessori School, far right, was the top writer for
the seventh grade with a perfect score of 300 points. The remaining top
writers, left to right, were Tori Barge, 6th, Fort Loramie JHS; Joe
Ballas, 5th, Fort Loramie JHS; Michelle Altstaetter, 4th, Botkins Local
School; Gina Langenkamp, 3rd, Coldwater Middle School and Riley
Middendorf, 2nd, Fort Loramie JHS.
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Bryn
Dippold, Coldwater Middle School, was the top eighth grade writer with
a perfect score of 300 points. The remaining top writers, left to
right, were Abby Walker, 6th, Tippecanoe Middle School; Lauren Durham,
5th, Versailles Middle School; Lauren Wyant, 4th, Tippecanoe Middle
School; Taylor Hudson, 3rd, Tippecanoe Middle School; and Brooke
Raterman, 2nd, Fort Loramie JHS.
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Fort
Loramie JHS, under the coaching of Laurie Nosek, was the top seventh
grade team.
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Minster
Middle School, under the coaching of Deb Meyer, was the second place
seventh grade team.
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Tippecanoe
Middle School, under the coaching of Bridget Hughes, was the third
place seventh grade team.
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Tippecanoe
Middle School, under the coaching of Amy Armentrout, was the top eighth
grade team.
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Versailles
Middle School, under the coaching of Deb Tyo, took second place for
eighth grade.
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Fort
Loramie JHS, under the coaching of Laurie Nosek, was the third place
eighth grade team.
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