A team of students representing Deerfield-Windsor School recently won high honors in this year’s WordWright Challenge, a national competition for high school students requiring close reading and analysis of many different kinds of prose and poetry.  Participating with 631 school teams from all across the country, the school’s twelfth graders tied for eighth place in the nation in the year’s first meet held in October.

Students at the school who achieved outstanding individual results in the meet included Helena Augenstein, Lacey Coleman, Virginia Moore, Emily Pursel, Brooke Timmerman, and Mattie Veillands.  More than 63,000 students from 48 states participated in the meet.  The students were supervised by Irmgard Schopen-Davis, Chair of the Upper School Humanities department.