Scholastic Challenge 2012

Congratulations go out to the team of Eric Jankowski, Hank Ward, John Stookey and Alice Liu who participated in the American Scholastic Challenge 2012 that took place online during the month of  February. Over 17,000 students participated from schools throughout the country. The competition allows participants to demonstrate a variety of problem solving skills and knowledge in many academic areas.  This year, these top four students earned high scores to place them in 2nd place, earning a Silver Award.  Special congratulations go out to Alice Liu, who earned an outstanding score of 96 out of 100 and took first place overall out of all 17,000 participants.  Way to go Alice!

Knowledge Bowl Results

Congratulations to Patton's Knowledge Bowl teams who competed at the County level yesterday in Downingtown. Individual award winners for high scores in the written round were: 6th grader, Matt Caputo, 7th grader, Nicholas Yang, and 8th grader, Ellie Covert. Also, with an overwhelming score, the 6th grade team of Eric Folmar, Ryan Hastings, Kyle Lacey, David Linskens, Matt Caputo, Allsion Herr, Sachi Patel, and Shuhan Yin placed 1st among 17 other teams, and were awarded medals. Patton's 7th and 8th grade teams did a wonderful job competing against over 20 other Chester County Teams. Great job to all!