Taylor LeFave earns perfect score in first meet of WordMasters Challenge™
Taylor LeFave, a fifth-grade student at Stewart School in Garden City, recently received a perfect score in the first of three meets in the 38th annual WordMasters Challenge™—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 125,000 students annually.
The WordMasters Challenge™ is an exercise in critical thinking that challenges students to use words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships. Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically.
Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the WordMasters Challenge™, Taylor earned a perfect score of 20 on the challenge. Nationally, only 34 fifth graders achieved this result.
Taylor and students in both Stewart School and Stratford Avenue School were coached in preparation for the WordMasters Challenge™ by teacher, Taylor Macdowell, within the Quest curriculum.
Ms. Macdowell, Stewart School, and the Garden City Public Schools congratulate Taylor on this achievement. Good luck to Taylor and all the WordMasters students in their upcoming second competition.
