The 3 Musketeers Win “Benefit to the Community” Two Years in a Row
In eCYBERMISSION Problem-Solving Contest
by Nancy Jackson
May 08, 2008
Three Hiawatha Middle School students, as part of the problem-solving team, The 3 Musketeers were the north-west regional criteria winners in the area of “Benefit to the Community” in the national eCYBERMISSION web-based science, math, and technology competition. Sammie Shamburg, Brynn Wright, and Sophia Fortmeyer will each receive a $2,000 EE U.S. savings bond in recognition of their efforts to bring handicap accessible playground equipment to Hiawatha. Last year the team also won in the criteria “Benefit to the Community” for having raised the community’s awareness about the need for handicap accessible equipment.
Nearly 12,000 students from all U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and from Department of Defense Education Activity schools worldwide competed in this year’s eCYBERMISSION problem-solving contest. The $6,000 that The 3 Musketeers won this year will put the amount won by Kansas students in the six years of the contest to over $100,000, with teacher Nancy Jackson’s Hiawatha Middle School students accounting for $30,000 of that amount.
