The 2018 Winners
Water on Wheels
Team Info: Alana Deryn Summary of Novel: A Long Walk to Water by : Linda Sue Park is an amazing book about a boy named Salva and he was stuck in his village during a war and runs away. Also, she writes about a girl named Nya that has to walk 8 hours every day to get...
Challenge #2 Coping with Loss: Sal and Billie Jo Meet
HES Cubcat Team Members: Eliie, Ellery, Charles, Elijah, Alex, John, Henry, and Rodney Team Facilitator: April Summey Please click here to see our Storyboard. We created a Storyboard where Sal, from Walk Two Moons, and Billie Jo, from Out of the Dust meet. Both of...
McDougle Elementary School – Wonder
Team Info: McDougle Elementary School Lisa Myles Elly, Paige, Siena, Sam, Adam, Allison Summary of Novel: Wonder, by R.J Palacio, is about a boy named August, also known as Auggie, who has a facial disorder known as Treacher Collins syndrome. Throughout the novel,...
Cubi’s Secret Finder
Team Info: Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools Team Name - Waddell Language Academy Sponsor Teacher- Stacey Hoy Participating students- Avery Fleming and Colby Luke-Judy Summary of Novel: Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish that their lives...
Poison Protection Class: Dead End in Norvelt
Team: Fluffy Bunny Productions Challenge: #3 Middle School Team Members: Sophia Nall, Macianna Kiefer Teacher: Kim Wagner, Hendersonville Middle School “Dead End in Norvelt” by Jack Gantos, is the story of a young boy named Jack, who is grounded for the...
The 2018 Runner Ups
A Dog’s Purpose Pet Vending Machine
Problem- Starvation of strays Solution- A Dog’s Purpose Pet Vending Machine for Stray Animals Creators- Samantha Packard and Jill Hines, Grover C. Fields Middle School, New Bern, NC The machines are placed around town and volunteers place food in the food slots...
A Drawing Machine
Team Info: Team Name HES Cubcats Sponsor Teacher Susan Newman/Brooke Lawson Participating students: Emily Coren, Jack Dyer, Xavier Gilbert, Riley Hernandez Summary of Novel: The Invention of Hugo Cabret Hugo is an orphan who lives in the walls of a train...
McDougle Elementary School – Becoming Naomi Leon
Team Info: McDougle Elementary School Lisa Myles Elly, Paige, Adam, Allison, Sam, Siena Summary of Novel: Becoming Naomi Leon, by Pam Munoz Ryan, is about a girl named Naomi Soledad Leon Outlaw. She lives with her little brother Owen and Gram at Avocado Acres Trailer...
McDougle Elementary School – The Ear, The Eye and The Arm and The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Team Info: McDougle Elementary School Lisa Myles Elly, Paige, Siena, Sam, Adam, Allison Summary of Novel: The Ear, The Eye and The Arm is a science-fiction story about a boy named Tendai and his brother and sister Kuda and Rita. They live in a futuristic world in...
Katelyn’s Global Solution
Challenge #3 Create a solution to a local or global issue using a character from your favorite book. Character: Mona Lisa Book: Mona Lisa Darkening by: Sunny Mona Lisa, and her 4 lovers, could most likely solve the global problem with terrorism but using their...
STOP BULLYING — No Matter Who You Are!
Challenge: #3 Elementary School Name: Glenn C. Marlow Elementary Team Members: Alex and Ezekiel Group Facilitators: Karen Whiting and Lynne Fender Book Summaries: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry is a book about two girls, Anne Marie and Ellen, who struggle to...
Problem Solution Comic Strips
Challenge 2 collection of student work 6th graders read a variety of novels and identified problems. They created comic strips using Storyboardthat.com. Their comics show how characters from different novels worked together to solve problems.
CVS Challenge #1
Team Info: Team 1: Double A Teacher: Paula Fox Participating Students: Addison and Anna Summary and Connection to the Conflict Wonder, The Hired Girl, and The Inventions of Hugo Cabaret all have a bully problem. In Wonder Aggie Pullman (the main...