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ACHS A-Team completes successful trip to Internationals Adair County High School's Heather Jackson earns No. 2 Ranking in the World in Future Problem Solving Scenario Writing; Rebecca Montgomery is on team winning No. 2 in her division. Kyle Castaneda, Sarah McQuaide, Amber Turner, and Jessi Turner finish just shy of a World Top 10 in Future Problem Solving Team team competition at Bloomington, IN. The team had finished No. 2 in Kentucky State Competition earlier Click on headline for full story with photo(s) By Chad Parnell News from Adair County High School When ACHS Academic Team member Heather Jackson won the State Championship in the Scenario Writing division of Future Problem Solving competition in March, it was a great cap on a Senior year after having four successful award-winning years as a high school competitor. However, that was before the results of the International Championships on June 6-9. Jackson accomplished Adair County's highest ever finish in the event by ranking 2nd in the world in the writing competition. The results were part of a process that started in September. After 9 months of progress, a series of evaluations, and topping the rankings along the way through each round of evaluation, Jackson had advanced to Internationals and awaited the judges' scores at that level. Students representing prestigious schools from Australia, Singapore, and Florida were announced and eventually sitting in 2nd Place overall was the Adair County student from Columbia, Kentucky. The advancement to Internationals in the first place was not merely to find out what place Jackson had earned after months of waiting. As part of the six members from Adair County who advanced in three separate competitions, Jackson also competed in the on-site Scenario Writing competition against the world's best. Teammate Rebecca Montgomery also made the trip after having advanced in the Grades 7-9 Division by winning the Kentucky State Championship in the division in March as well. Both students made quite a stir by capitalizing on the opportunity and bringing home awards in both. Jackson followed up her overall Scenario competition placement by winning 1st place. Montgomery worked alongside fellow writing competitors to earn 2nd place overall in her division. The On-Site Scenario Writing competition is unique in that the students are randomly grouped with a team of two or three other students from around the world who are representing their regions of the globe via the same qualifications as everyone else competing. Together, the group must construct a piece as a group with each writer contributing different chapters or components of the work along the way. The students have a limited time to meet, strategize, and complete the competition. In the Future Problem Solving team competition, team representatives Kyle Castaneda, Sarah McQuiade, Amber Turner, and Jessi Taylor fell just shy of the Top 10 in the world in their event, impressing judges along the way with their efforts concerning the topic of Global Status of Women. The team earned a bid to compete after having finished 2nd at the Kentucky State Championships in March. Future Problem Solving International reports that around 250,000 competitors begin the qualification rounds at the beginning of each school year. After months of competitions across the globe, the campus of Indiana University played host to representative from 13 different countries representing different regions around the world and over 40 U.S. states. Competing against qualifiers from China, Great Britain, Singapore, India, Portugal, Korea, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Turkey, and Jordan, Adair County students stood out yet again amid the pack. This was the school system's 8th year in a row of qualification for the event, which most schools worldwide and stateside do not ever get a chance to qualify for and experience. Not only that, Adair County has placed among the award recipients among the world's best in every year that they have attended. Chad Parnell This story was posted on 2013-06-11 12:47:01
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