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Updating you on everything in the Batesville School District this morning, we are joined by phone by

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Raven Cash, the GT teacher at Eagle Mountain Elementary. And Miss Cash, good morning.

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Good morning.

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Tell me what's happening over in the GT program this week.

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Well, on February 25th, we went to Odyssey of the Mind State Qualifiers and we presented with six

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other schools in our same division were solving the same problem. And so a little bit about Odyssey of the

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Mind, it's a creative problem-solving program for kids all the way through kindergarten through college.

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And our fourth and fifth-grade team at Eagle Mountain brought home the first-place gold

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medal for that. They create, they chose problem one vehicle and that problem is this year pirates

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and the treasure. They had to design and build a vehicle that two students could safely ride on.

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They had to create a script, make all the props, and solve all the steps of that problem.

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And we will be going to the state competition Saturday, April 1st. And also this week our

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elementary chess went, Batesville Elementary schools competed in our regional chess competition.

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Our K-3 team is made up of students from all three schools, Eagle Mountain, West, and Sulphur Rock,

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won the first-place team award for their combined scores. And the top three winners for that

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division was first place third graders from Eagle Mountain, Arch Baker, second-place third grader at

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Eagle Mountain Sawyer Cairns and third place, also a third grader at Eagle Mountain, Everett Fisher.

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Well, very good. Congratulations to your students. Sounds like you guys have had a very productive

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few weeks. Yes, sir. All right, very well. Raven Cash joining us this morning from Eagle Mountain

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