St. Rose School Students Place at State PSIA Academic Meet

St. Rose of Lima Catholic School had 17 students participate at the State Private School Interscholastic Association (PSIA) Academic Meet on Saturday, April 27, at Texas State University in San Marcos.

PSIA provides an extracurricular academic program for private, parochial, charter, and home-school students in grades 1-8. This includes 20 skill categories, producing 62 grade-level appropriate contests: Art, Calculator Applications, Creative Writing, Dictionary Skills, Impromptu Speaking, Information Skills, Listening Skills, Maps, Graphs & Charts, Mathematics, Modern Oratory, Music Memory, Number Sense, One-Act Play, On-Site Drawing, Poetry/ Prose Interpretation, Ready Writing, Science, Spelling, Storytelling, and Vocabulary.

Only the top two winners from each of the 8 “A” Districts advance to compete at the State Meet. Students were presented with either a medal or ribbon for their accomplishments.

Students who also competed in the state meet were Abigale McBride, Emileigh Divin, and Levi Johnson.

Congratulations to those who placed at the state meet: 8th grade: Allen Ballard-2nd place Art Memory, Miranda Bonner- 5th place.Mathematics and 8th place Ready Writing, Maximo Hernandez-10th place Ready Writing, Will Taylor-10th place Art Memory.

7th grade: Caroline Bartek- 3rd place Science and 7th place Ready Writing.

6th grade: Abraham Mc-Bride-6th place Science, Cal Schiffli-10th place Mathematics, Charlotte Schmidt-3rd place Ready Writing.

5th grade: Briley Hartensteiner- 9th place Number Sense, Rylee Wright-3rd place Vocabulary and 7th place Ready Writing.

4th grade: Noah Heger-9th place Maps, Graphs, and Charts, Brylee Stoever-9th place Ready Writing.

2nd grade: Brody Lewis-10th place Spelling.

1st grade: Claire McCourt-7th place Creative Writing.