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Determined reader wins bike, helmet
ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette
Lynn Flick wasn t surprised one of her Glenwood Park Elementary School students earned the top prize in a statewide reading competition for third graders.
Kapmuan Sang was determined to get the bicycle and helmet given to top readers, she said.
“He was so far ahead of everybody,” Flick said.
As Kapmuan paged his way through books including the “Dog Man” and “Zeke Meeks” series, he tracked his progress in Read to the Final Four through a digital literacy platform powered by Renaissance myON. He logged more than 355 hours of reading during the months-long competition.
ANGOLA â A business raising show goats and a device that prevents pants tears for those with lower limb prosthetics took the top prizes at Trine Universityâs annual Innovation Challenge, held Thursday in the T. Furth Center for Performing Arts.
Presented by the universityâs Trine Innovation 1 and Fifth Third Bank, the annual contest provides cash prizes to top business and technology ideas. Awards are funded by a gift from Fifth Third Bank, Greater Indiana.
The $3,000 first prize in the business division went to Acacia Ranch Show Goats, presented remotely by DeKalb High School students and siblings Sydney and Matthias Hefty. The business provides high-quality, cost-effective goats for the growing number of 4-H members throughout the region seeking to show the animals.