INDEPENDENCE — Independence Community College celebrated the 39th Annual Competition Day on March 2 with over 600 students from nineteen Kansas and Missouri high schools.
Last Tuesday’s 60-plus competitions represented a variety of skills ranging from the traditional English, math, and science, to Haiku, drafting, newspaper design, U.S. presidential trivia, and even a contest on fingernail art.
Pre-submitted works in art, journalism writing, poetry, playwriting, drafting, and photography were submitted in advance for pre-event judging and were on display.
Ribbons were presented to the top winner in each pre-submitted category as well as the art work. All other contests were conducted at ICC the morning of the event.
Top schools in each classification included Tyro Christian School (class 1A), Oswego High School (class 2A), Neodesha High School (class 3A), Iola High School (class 4A) and Arkansas City High School (class 5A).
Central-Burden High School finished in third place among the class 2A schools.
Those students from Central-Burden, Elk Valley and Sedan schools who won awards at ICC Competition Day included:
Central-Burden High School
• Jake Emmons: world regional geography, third place.
• Sarah Fischer: accounting, fifth place.
• Lindsay Handlin: accounting, third place; filing, fifth place; keyboarding II, fifth place.
• Shalynn Shepherd: business math, fourth place.
• Tyler Taylor: pre-calculus, first place; spelling, fourth place.
• Billie Vaught: all other two-dimensional art, first place.
• Travis Wham: spelling, second place.
Elk Valley High School
• William Bennett: on-site CAD mechanical drafting, second place.
Sedan High School
• Curtis Brown: painting, fifth place.
• Naomi Cunningham: French I, second place.
• Alex Germann: U.S. history, second place.
• Jacob Germann: American presidency, fifth place.
• Kaitlyn McDonough: creativity photography, fourth place.
• Sterling Pray: Tales With A Twist, third place.
• Nick Wigton: basic algebra, second place.
• Kyle Williams: basic algebra, fourth place; chemistry, fifth place.
