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Congratulations to Ihovanni Tinoco for winning the Around the World States Competition in U.S. History! For six years now in Mr. Shields’ history class he has had an Around the World Competition on learning the 50 states.
When explaining how the competition works Mr. Shield says, “It is called around the world, where you have two students stand up and I point to a state on the map and whoever says the state first wins. Then I took the fastest in each class and had them compete against each other to find the three fastest in each class. Then I had a little bracketed tournament for all my classes. We started out with a sweet sixteen.” The overall grand champion winner for the whole eighth grade was Ihovanni Tinoco. He won a gift certificate to a local restaurant.For some people that might sound a little strange. So Mr. Shields went on to explain, “I started it because I wanted to find a fun way for the students to learn the states. I think it makes learning easier when we can make it fun or make a game out of it. A lot of students perform better when there is some competition on the line.
Ihovanni Tinoco, the winner, said, “ It feels awesome to win. I was super nervous but the states just came to me.”
The following students made it to the sweet sixteen and won a king sized candy bar: Kazdin Lewis, Carly Staheli, Kaden Jepperson, Emma Kucharek, Nate Segeberg, Isaac Englund, Bob Gabbitas, Allysa Gardiner, Tanner Huber, Emma Ferrin, Lydia Davies, Kelsea Johnson, Ihovanni Tinoco, Kaylie Remund, Cougar Pope and Kaylee Marshall.
They may not have won but, they still did a really good job!