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READING OLYMPICS 2013-2014

Jake Mealey (president) Favorite Color: Green Favorite Subject: Science Reason for Joining Reading Olympics: I enjoy reading and making new friends

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READING OLYMPICS2013-2014

Jake Mealey (president)

Favorite Color: Green

Favorite Subject: Science

Reason for Joining Reading Olympics: I enjoy reading and making new friends in a exciting environment

Fun Fact: I enjoy watching livestreams on twitch.tv, as well as playing video games on my PC.

Abi Lua (vice-president)

Favorite Color: Red

Favorite Subject: English and Latn

Reason for Joining Reading Olympics: “I love reading but, due to time constraints, often find myself unable to read as much as I would like to. with reading Olympics, I am given more of a priority to read books and therefore am able to somehow fit in reading as a part of my academic schedule.

Fun Fact: After watching a movie, reads the accompanying Wikipedia article on it

Tutu Gbadebo (Secretary)

Favorite Color: Purple

Favorite Subject: History

Reason for Joining Reading Olympics: “I love Reading.”

Fun Fact: Knows the names of the kings and queens of England since William I

Anika Tahsin (Treasurer)

Favorite Color: Green

Favorite Subject: English

Reason for Joining Reading Olympics: “I felt nostalgic of my elementary days when I first started high school, and seeing the Reading Olympics booth at the activities fair sophomore year brought back good memories of when I was in Reading Olympics in elementary School.”

Fun Fact: unintentionally kills all potted plants that she is put in charge of

Mrs. McKee (Advisor)

Favorite Color: Blue

Favorite Subject: English

Reason for becoming Reading Olympics Advisor: “ I want to hang around people who recognize the importance and magic of reading.”

Fun Fact: Plays the violin and has played over 200 weddings

What is Reading Olympics?

Reading Olympics is a club in which we read books from a set list of 44.

In late March – early April, we go to a competition, usually at Wissahickon High School, and answer content-based questions from the books.

Each question is worth one point and the goal is to have fun with your peers and make new friends.

What is Reading Olympics? (continued) Before the competition day, after

school we will meet here in K126 and have a pizza party to celebrate how far we have come.

Note: There are dues for this club! Dues are $5 and will contribute to snacks for each meeting as well as the pizza party at the end of the year!

Things in the works

Possible Charity event? Ideas?

Possible field trip at the end of the year? A tour of the Free Library of Philadelphia?

Future T-shirt meeting (TBD)

Future fundraiser?

New Method

This year, in order to have all the books read by at least one person, we will each pull a book at random from a hat. This book is your book for the week. If you pull a book that you have already read, please place that slip back in the hat and draw again.

Meetings

Our full club meetings will occur on the first Monday of each month leading up to the competition. We will add meetings if we feel it is necessary.

During each meeting, it is expected from each member to share important details about the book that they have read for this meeting. In addition, a summary of the book is to be submitted to the Wikispace page!

Wikispace

http://ReadingOlympicsNPHS.wikispaces.com/

IMC

A number of our books are located in the IMC here at the high school

Lets go down to the IMC to see!