CONGRATULATIONS to the ICHS Literary Team and Literary Coach, Mrs. Abby Dove!!!
Congratulations to the ICHS Literary Team for placing 2nd in the Area Literary contest today! I am very proud of all of these students and the talent we have at Irwin County.
Our Area champions qualifying for state were the following:
JT Wilmot-1st place in rhetorical essay 🥇
Callie Lowery-1st place in personal essay 🥇
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Other Area winners were:
Jade Biggers-2nd place in humorous interpretation
Isabella Hall and Callie Lowery-2nd place in duo interpretation
Haven Johnson-Jordan-2nd place in dramatic interpretation
Skylar Furhman, Carlie Brooks, and Mona Eady-2nd place in trio
JT Wilmot, Malique Dyous, Haven Johnson-Jordan, and Nate Phillips-2nd place in quartet
LePairea Harper-3rd place in girls solo
Gage Morris-3rd place in international extemporaneous speaking
Kellen Wynn-3rd place in domestic extemporaneous speaking
Mary Wright-3rd place in argumentative essay
Nate Phillips-3rd place in boys solo
Our Literary team scored a total of 54 points, only 3 points behind the first-place team of Charlton. Our students did very well!
Thank you to Chris Oldham for preparing the students for the music competitions, and thank you to Wendy McFarland for coordinating the event and the many unseen preparations that went into making today run smoothly--all while kicking cancer's butt!
Special thanks to Kristie Hansen Clark, Kayla Haire, Jami Willis, and Anna Howell for running the tally room, to Jana Jones Griner, Sonya Peck Rankin, and Sarah Woodruff Roberts for assisting the team as timekeepers, to Ray Pierce, along with Sonya Rankin, for providing research materials, and to Charlea Richardson, Kaitlyn Lindsey, and Keira Smith for running the concessions stand.
Our Area champions will compete Saturday, March 26th at Georgia Military College in Milledgeville.