State History Day

Congratulations to our 4 Upper School students who presented their projects at the state history day competition in Des Moines on April 26.  The 4 competed against about 250 Iowa students in grades 9-12 in the senior division.  The team of Christopher and Christine Mbakwe won first place in their category, earning perfect marks, while the team of Meghana Pagadala and Joann Weeks won second place.  Meghana and Joann also received the Judges Choice award for their use of a Primary Source as Media.  Both teams will go up against about 2,500 of their peers from the United States, Guam, American Samoa, Department of Defense schools in Europe and Shanghai, China, in June at the University of Maryland in the National History Day competition.  24 students will represent Iowa at the University of Maryland with 4 of those coming from Rivermont.

Although Rivermont has often had students named as alternates to the national event, this is the first time since 2001 that our students will compete at the national level.

In addition, Rivermont was tied for second place in the overall school category.  Rivermont was presented two books for our library.

Joann Weeks and Meghana Pagadala

Picking Cotton and Picking Fights: Eli Whitney's Patent Problems

Christine Mbakwe and Christopher Mbakwe

RAI

This year's Rivermont Academic Invitational (RAI) brought 240 students to our campus.  On April 14 we hosted 38 teams from 21 Quad City area schools and on April 15 we hosted 22 teams from 14 schools.  Thanks to the many volunteers and businesses who made this event a great success.  Special thanks to RAI Coordinator Leigh Ann Schroeder.

Congratulations to the Rivermont team of Madeline Bowman, Adam Dada, Summer Lawrence, and Suhas Seshadri who won Third Place in the Grade 7/8 Competition.