Blackwell HS Hornets Are Academic Competition District Champs!

On March 23rd, Blackwell earned a district 11-1A academic championship with 571 total points!
 
Underlined students and teams are regional qualifiers. 
 
This is not an event that is easy or where everyone receives an award.  These exceptional results represent steady-consistent effort over time and resulted in exceptional performances.
 
Accounting - 2nd Matthew Shipman, 3rd Makayla Lee, 6th Marlene Sanchez, and 2nd team Zach Pierce

Calculator Applications - 2nd Samuel Ottaberry, 2nd team Makayla Lee, Tori Campos, and Blane Crosson

Computer Applications - 1st Samuel Ottaberry, 2nd Matthew Shipman, and 3rd Luz Cano

Computer Science - 1st Samuel Ottaberry, 2nd Matthew Shipman, 3rd Zach Pierce, 5th Bryson Smith, and 1st team

Copy Editing - 4th Kinley Cummings and 6th Makayla Lee

Current Issues - 4th Hunter Jackson, 5th Luz Cano, 6th Eli Drake, and 1st team Emorie Anglin

CX Debate - 2nd Dusty Boyd/Cooper Claborn(also state qualifiers!), 3rd Eli Drake/Stockton Solis, and 4th Hunter Jackson/Marlene Sanchez (February 9th)

Editorial Writing - 2nd Kinley Cummings, 3rd Gloria Gonzalez, and 4th Cooper Claborn

Feature Writing - 4th Gloria Gonzalez

Headline Writing - 3rd Dawson Dominey, 5th Bryson Smith, and 6th Gloria Gonzalez

Informative Speaking - 1st Cadi Powers and 3rd Chris Gieck

LD Debate - 1st Cadi Powers, 2nd Sam Meier, 3rd Chris Gieck, and 4th Dylan Taylor

Literary Criticism - 6th Brionna Sommerfeld

Mathematics - 5th Samuel Ottaberry, 6th Matthew Shipman, 2nd team Makayla Lee and Hunter Jackson

News Writing - 5th Kam Sneed

Number Sense - 1st Samuel Ottaberry, 2nd Matthew Shipman, 1st team Makayla Lee and Tyson Walls

One Act Play - All Star Cast Cadi Powers/Tyson Walls, Honorable Mention Dusty Boyd/Brionna Sommerfeld (March 2nd)

Persuasive Speaking - 1st Dusty Boyd and 5th Hunter Jackson

Poetry Interpretation - 4th Autumn Clark and 6th Brionna Sommerfeld

Prose Interpretation - 2nd Dusty Boyd, 5th MaKinlee Killough-White, and 6th Ashtyn Hamilton

Ready Writing - 6th Kinley Cummings

Science - Top Physics Samuel Ottaberry and Top Chemistry Jesse McKinney

Social Studies - 1st Karter Cummings, 5th Tyson Walls, 6th Marlene Sanchez, and 1st team Jesse McKinney

Spelling - 2nd Kinley Cummings, 2nd team Cooper Claborn, Shelby Rasco, and Talia Campos
 
2nd team Journalism - Combining scores from following events: Copy Editing, Editorial Writing, Feature Writing, Headline Writing, and News Writing

1st team Speech - Combining scores from following events: CX/LD Debate, Informative/Persuasive Speaking, and Poetry/Prose Interpretation