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RMA Team Wins State Odyssey of the Mind and Places Sixth in the World
RMA Student Wins 2003 Morehead Scholarship
6th and 7th Grade OM Team Takes Regionals One More Time
RMA Odyssey of the Mind Team Places Sixth in World
The 6th Place OM World Champs are Rocky Mount Academy students (left to right, kneeling) Kelsey Strickland, Clare Mayo, Emily Urquhart, (left to right, standing) Amelia Nash, Morgan Minges, Olivia Arnold, and Ashley Warren.
We are very proud of the RMA Odyssey of the Mind team who recently returned from the World competition where they competed against 48 other teams and placed Sixth with an Honorable Mention. The following story was written when they won the State Championship which qualified them to represent NC in the World Finals.........
Though the Rocky Mount Academy OM team performed illusions at the Odyssey
of the Mind State competition on April 5, the first place trophy is no
illusion. They are the State
Champs. They beat out nine other
teams performing the “Fooled Ya” problem in the Middle School division.
The OM organization thinks up problems each year from which the teams from
around the world have to choose one to solve through performance.
The RMA team of 6th and 7th grade girls chose to
solve “Fooled Ya.”
“We knew we could be creative with this particular problem.
We knew that a lot of other teams would be doing the other creative
problem because this one was more of a challenge,” Urquhart explained.
The team was required to create and present a performance that includes
two characters who fool the others by performing at least five illusions
during the performance. The
challenge did not scare them off. They
started thinking about current events, which made them think of the West Nile
virus. And from there, their
solution was born. Fevers. They each took on a fever identity – some real, some
imaginary. They were Yellow
Fever, Cat Scratch Fever, Scarlet Fever, Spring Fever, Hay Fever, Disco Fever,
and Rocky Mount Fever. While
these fevers were trying to stay away from drugs, in order to prevent their
demise, they sent a parallel message for youth to say no to drugs.
They got no help, per OM rules, from their coaches.
Warren said, “They would sit there with smirks on their faces because
they knew a way to solve a problem we might be having, but they wouldn’t say
a word.” Then, maybe later on
at night, as Coach Urquhart said, “their faces would light up when those
mental ‘light bulbs’ would click on and an idea would be hatched.”
RMA has a
history of winning OM competitions. They
have won regionals for the past four years, have had State Champs three of the
last four years, and placed 2nd in World in 2000.
RMA Student Wins 2003 Morehead Scholarship
Rocky Mount Academy is proud of
Nicholas Mosley who won the prestigious Morehead Scholarship to the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Nicholas is the only student from Nash
and Edgecombe counties to win the scholarship this year.
Nicholas, son of RMA alumni Michael and Anne Mosley, has attended Rocky Mount Academy since Kindergarten. "We're so grateful ... to Rocky Mount Academy for giving him such a good background. The school has put him where he is," Anne commented just moments after Nicholas had received the good news on March 7.
The Morehead is worth approximately $70,000. In addition to tuition, it also covers student expenses, the purchase of a laptop computer, and outstanding summer enrichment programs for Morehead Scholars only. The university gives out only 50 Morehead Scholarships a year.
6th and 7th Grade OM Team Takes Regionals One More Time
For the fourth year in a row, a Rocky Mount Academy Odyssey of the Mind team has won the regional competition for its age group. Congratulations go to team members Olivia Arnold, Clare Mayo, Morgan Minges, Amelia Nash, Kelsey Strickland, Emily Urquhart and Ashley Warren who did a winning job of the "Fooled Ya" problem.
State competition will be sweeter than ever before because, for the first time, we will be competing in our hometown. OM teams from around North Carolina will gather at N.C.Wesleyan College on Saturday, April 5. Come out and cheer on our great team!
· Rocky Mount
Academy placed second among public and independent “small” schools in the
eastern NC MathCounts contest. One
of our students placed 4th overall.
· Fifty-one percent (51%) of RMA 4th, 5th, and 7th graders are eligible this year to participate in Duke University’s Talent Search (formerly MAP) and TIP programs, based on their achievement test scores. Last year, six RMA 7th graders who took the college entrance SAT exam through TIP were honored for scoring over 510 on either the math or verbal section of that exam.
·
An RMA junior made a perfect 800 score on the math portion of the SAT.
We had another junior who scored a composite 1550 -- just 50 points shy of a
perfect SAT.
· Sixth grader Craig Park qualified to participate in the State Level Championship of the Annual Reader’s Digest National Word Power Challenge.
· RMA first
grader Anne Claire Williams is a state winner in the N.C. Reading
Association’s Young Authors Project. She
was the youngest student in the Nash-Rocky Mount area to win at the state
level.
· First grade
teacher Anne Duke Cobb won two grants this year — from The Children’s
Education Foundation and the NC Council of Teachers of Mathematics — which
allow her to enrich the learning experiences of her students.
· RMA senior
Katie Bynum was recognized in The News and Observer and the Rocky Mount Telegram recently for scoring over 1300 points in her
varsity basketball career. She has
received numerous accolades reflective of this talent.
· Another RMA
senior, Kerstin Heller, is having her photography published this year in
the Best of College Photography Annual 2003 because her piece was judged to be in the top
7% of 20,000 entries. She is now a
finalist in this annual contest.
· Our Girls Tennis team are the State Champs for the third year in a row. Our Boys Soccer team placed 4th in the state this fall. Our Varsity Girls basketball team were regular season and tournament champs this year and made it to the semi-final round of the 1A State tournament.
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