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Updating you on everything in the Batesville School District this morning, we are joined by phone by
Raven Cash, the GT teacher at Eagle Mountain Elementary. And Miss Cash, good morning.
Good morning.
Tell me what's happening over in the GT program this week.
Well, on February 25th, we went to Odyssey of the Mind State Qualifiers and we presented with six
other schools in our same division were solving the same problem. And so a little bit about Odyssey of the
Mind, it's a creative problem-solving program for kids all the way through kindergarten through college.
And our fourth and fifth-grade team at Eagle Mountain brought home the first-place gold
medal for that. They create, they chose problem one vehicle and that problem is this year pirates
and the treasure. They had to design and build a vehicle that two students could safely ride on.
They had to create a script, make all the props, and solve all the steps of that problem.
And we will be going to the state competition Saturday, April 1st. And also this week our
elementary chess went, Batesville Elementary schools competed in our regional chess competition.
Our K-3 team is made up of students from all three schools, Eagle Mountain, West, and Sulphur Rock,
won the first-place team award for their combined scores. And the top three winners for that
division was first place third graders from Eagle Mountain, Arch Baker, second-place third grader at
Eagle Mountain Sawyer Cairns and third place, also a third grader at Eagle Mountain, Everett Fisher.
Well, very good. Congratulations to your students. Sounds like you guys have had a very productive
few weeks. Yes, sir. All right, very well. Raven Cash joining us this morning from Eagle Mountain
Elementary on this morning's edition of Pioneer Update. And it's brought to you by Citizens Bank,
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