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RMA
Records Best Sports Year in School's History:
Golf
Team Wins State Title
State Championship Goes to RMA Girls Soccer Team
RMA Boys Tennis Takes 2nd Place in State
Lady
Eagles Capture NCISSA 1-A Tennis Title
4th-5th Grade Odyssey of the Mind Team Wins State Championship
Two RMA Teams Take First Place in Regional Odyssey of the Mind Competition
RMA Student Wins Local Junior Miss and Recognized for Academics
RMA Brain Game Team Takes First Place
RMA Teacher Wins Grant to Relate Math and Children's Literature
State
Championship Goes to RMA Girls Soccer Team
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RMA Boys Tennis Takes 2nd Place in State
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4th-5th Grade Odyssey of the Mind Team Wins State Championship
The 4th-5th grade Odyssey of the Mind team from Rocky Mount Academy took first place in the State finals and went to the OM World competition in College Park, MD.
The team won first place on May 6 in Hickory for their performance of the "Ody-SEE-ing Sounds" problem as well as their handling of a spontaneous problem. Per the rules of OM, the children are responsible for developing all concepts, props, costumes, and scripts. No outside assistance from non-team members, such as coaches, is allowed.
The seven team members created a play involving an underwater school (the educational kind) of fish of the sea. There are good fish and bad fish that ultimately learn the lesson to treat each other nicely. They acted, sang, dances, and swam among sunken ships and treasure chests in costumes that they made from egg crate foam and painted in bright colors.
The team then went on to the Worlds, which were
held on June 2-5, and placed 11th. They competed against 47 other teams
on their grade level from around the world, including teams from as far away
as China and Uganda.
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Two RMA Teams Take First Place in Regional Odyssey of the Mind Competition
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RMA Student Wins Local Junior Miss and
Recognized for Academics
Congratulations to RMA junior Leslie D. Dickens, who was selected as the 2002 Rocky Mount Area's Junior Miss on March 24.
Participants in Junior Miss are judged based on scholastics, interview, fitness, poise, and talent. Leslie competed against other juniors from Rocky Mount Senior High, Northern Nash High School, and Southern Nash High School and won the overall academic excellence award as evaluated by a panel of educators. Factors considered for the academic excellence were transcripts, scores on scholastic tests and other academic accomplishments. Leslie was also a winner in the physical fitness category.
Leslie will represent Rocky Mount in the North Carolina Junior Miss program in Greensboro in March, 2002.
RMA Brain Game Team Takes First Place
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RMA First Graders Make News
Rocky Mount Telegram, January 31, 2001
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RMA Teacher Wins Grant to Relate Math and Children's Literature
Rocky Mount Academy first grade teacher, Ann Duke Cobb, has received a mini-grant that aims to remind children and parents of the math teaching opportunity in literature. Funding for Cobb’s project, entitled "Serving Up Math and Literature in the Numeral Café", comes from the N.C. Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
First graders and their parents will come to RMA for refreshments one night during April which is national "Math Month" and be served up reading and shape-up snacks by eighth graders who have a special relationship with the first graders. At RMA, each child in a Lower School grade is paired with a child from an Upper School grade. The eighth grade "buddies" spend time with the first graders during the school year. The eighth graders will be the waiters in The Numeral Café and will also read the books to the children and their parents.
Ten books have been specially selected for this project, including "The Greedy Triangle", "12 Ways to Get 11", "Pigs Will Be Pigs", and "A Fair Bear Share". Snack items, in the shape of cubes, boxes, cylinders, spheres and cones will be served, such as cheese cubes, stick pretzels, marshmallows, Bugles, and candy kisses.
"My hopes are that, by reminding parents and students of the
innovative ways of learning mathematics, parents will continue to read
math-related literature to their children," Cobb commented.
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Lady Eagles Capture NCISSA 1-A Tennis Title
The Lady Eagles of Rocky Mount Academy captured the NCISAA 1-A State Tennis Championship on October 28 in Pinehurst. "It is a sweet victory after having won the regular season CPIC title and finishing second in the CPIC tournament," Head Coach Myra Smith commented.
"Every player contributed points to this victory," Smith said. Two singles victories and three doubles wins helped to clinch the title with a final score of 28-25 in a nine school competition. Abigail Lee won the No. 3 seed match against Mary Riddick Gauss of Greenfield in Wilson, 6-0, 6-2. Greenfield’s Quinn Etheridge was also defeated by an RMA player, No. 5 Leslie Dickens, in a match decided in two sets, 7-6, 6-1.
Previously undefeated in the CPIC, Greenfield’s doubles team of Gretchen Barber and Eleanor Tucker of Greenfield lost to RMA’s No. 1 team, Shelley Smith and Meredith Daughtridge, 7-5, 6-0. And the No. 2 doubles team at RMA, Abigail Lee and Catherine Woodard, defeated Ashley Boone and Brook Smith of Northeast, 6-1, 7-5. Lee and Woodard went undefeated in doubles this season. Northeast’s Jo Ann Beale and Ann Futrell suffered a loss to RMA when they went down 6-4, 6-0 to No. 3 team Ashley Jones and Genna Suggs. The win gave Jones a perfect record for the season.
In other play, Meredith Daughtridge was a runner-up in the No. 2 singles finals, as was Catherine Woodard in the No. 4 singles finals. Anna Vaughn Creech won in the quarter finals.
Exuberant over the school’s first women’s tennis championship, Smith
said, "There is a lot of heart and soul on this team. The players really
supported each other I their efforts to do their best." Smith was
assisted by Partha Daughtridge.
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