Madison along with five other students in her eight grade class traveled to Yellow Springs Ohio last weekend to participate in the Power of the Pen District tournament. POP, is a series of interscholastic writing tournaments, designed for students in grades 7 and 8. POP encourages schools to develop writing teams, allows young writers to meet, compete, and receive recognition and awards for excellence in three rounds of impromptu writing, and offers immediate feedback from teacher coaches who act as judges on the quality of their written expression.
The students are given prompts in each of the three rounds. Each round they write for 40 minutes.
Awards are given to the top twelve writers in each grade. Madison placed 12th. Other Jonathan Alder eighth graders placed 11th, 10th, 9th and 2nd. Also, there is "Best of Round" for each of the three rounds and Madison won that award for the third round.
The entire 8th grade team also brought home the 1st place trophy and all six will go to the Regional competition on March 27th.
Way to go Jonathan Alder!!
Madison - we are so proud of you!!!
Madison - we are so proud of you!!! 
