Logan Krone Participates in Regional Spelling Bee

SW/WC Service Cooperative’s Regional Spelling Bee was held on Tuesday, February 11 at the Redwood Area Community Center in Redwood Falls.  Twenty-eight students, who were local winners, competed against each other through a written test and three preliminary oral rounds.  The scores for those two events were added together and the 17 students with the top scores advanced to the afternoon’s spell-down.  After fifteen intense rounds, Alyssa Boynton of Murray County Central Jr. High was declared the champion.  Other winners included Asa Ulferts (Yellow Medicine East Jr. High – second place), Cadence Dove (Dawson-Boyd – Stevens Elem. – third place), Michaela Bosveld (Marshall Middle School – fourth place), and Daniel Bauer (Holy Redeemer, Marshall – alternate).  The top four students advance to the Multi-Region State Spelling Bee on February 25 at Fergus Falls with the winner from that event going on to the National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C.

Logan Krone, grade 6, from Lester Prairie School participated in the Regional Spelling Bee.  All students received certificates with the top four students also receiving trophies.

Schools in the eighteen county service area were invited to participate in this academic enrichment activity sponsored by the Southwest/West Central Service Cooperative.  The Multi-Region State Spelling Bee is sponsored by the following Minnesota Service Cooperatives:  Lakes Country Service Cooperative, Northeast Service Cooperative, Northwest Service Cooperative, Resource Training & Solutions and the Southwest/West Central Service Cooperative.

Sponsors for student activities provided by the SW/WC Service Cooperative include Title Sponsors:  Southwest Minnesota Workforce Council (for Career Expo), The Schwan Food Company (for Culinary Skills Challenge) and Southwest Minnesota Arts Council (for Young Artists).  Program Sponsors include Blue Cross Blue Shield, Great River Energy, Junior Achievement, Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc., Marshall Radio, Minnesota West Community & Technical College, Southwest Minnesota State University and SW/WC Service Cooperative.