Bowling Green, Ky. - Western Kentucky University’s Educational Talent Search (ETS) Academic Team won the Academic Bowl Championship in the Southeastern Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel competition.

The team, comprised of 11 middle school students enrolled in WKU’s ETS program, also won the spelling bee and placed third in both the written exam and super quiz. Sakoyia Hodge of Bowling Green Junior High School brought home a trophy for her second-place finish in the written exam.

Other team members include: Andy Goins and Rachel Hill, Edmonson County Middle School; Cody Sanders, David Chhouk and Gabriel Mercer, Warren East Middle School; Dee Walker and Jasmine Grimes, Franklin-Simpson Middle School; Indyea Nixon, Bowling Green Junior High School; and Storm Browning and Wesley Poteet, James E. Bazzell Middle School.

The 11 members were selected after receiving high scores on an assessment given to more than 100 eighth-grade participants of the WKU ETS program.
The team entered the competition in Atlanta after winning the Kentucky championship. Members of the team were also praised on their creative T-shirt design which included the phrase “Great Minds Think Like Us.”

WKU’s Educational Talent Search program serves 1,000 students in 11 counties.  Its mission is to engage qualified youth in grades six through 12 in developmentally appropriate activities that will encourage persistence in high school, enrollment in postsecondary education and a lifelong pursuit of learning in order to be productive citizens of a global society.

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For more information, contact Martha Sales at (270) 745-3757. 

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