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QVMS Students Earn Perfect Scores at WordMasters

Three Quaker Valley Middle School students earned perfect scores on the WordMasters Challenge in December.  

Sixth grader Marguerite Courtney scored among the top two percent among 6,500 competitors and seventh graders Annika Christensen and Molly Henschke scored in the top three percent among 5,500 seventh grade competitors nationally.

Nationally, only 104 sixth graders and 180 seventh graders achieved a perfect score.  

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Other Quaker Valley standouts in the competition included the following:

Scoring 19 out of 20

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• Grade 6:  Lia Warburton

• Grade 7:  Jake Musial and Franzi Nace

• Grade 8:  Emma Szuba ,Ryan Torbic, & Elizabeth Whalen

Scoring 18 out of 20

• Grade 6:  Nolan Carver, Rosalie Daval, David Lipton, Geoff Magan, Eric Nelson, Gabi Saladino and Kyle Torbic

• Grade 7:  Maddie Cahall, Devon Jones, Caitlyn McCloskey, Michael Parker and Ryan Weicht

• Grade 8:  Beth Fleming and Duff Klaber

Click here to learn more about the WorldMasters Challenge.

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