Photo courtesy of St. Mark’s School of Texas Facebook.
On May 20 the St. Mark’s School of Texas fourth grade class was announced as the 2022-2023 WordMasters Challenge national champions in their grade division.
According to a St. Mark’s news release, the team earned perfect scores in the last three meets of the year resulting in a final cumulative score of 588 out of 600 possible points, with the second-place team scoring 578 points.
The WordMasters Challenge is a national competition for students in grades 3-8 which assesses students’ comprehension of higher-level vocabulary and their ability to examine relationships between words through analogy-solving. Students are split between blue and gold divisions, with gold representing gifted students who are well above their grade average,
Competing in the Gold Division, St Mark’s fourth-graders Max Cao, Christian Collins, Montgomery Cullum, Daniel Geng, Thomas Hayes, Cole Huey, Vihaan Jain, Benny McCombie, Robert Staten, Andrew Tevis, Lawrence Tong and Caleb Zhang earned perfect scores of 20. Only 45 fourth-graders achieved perfect scores nationally.
