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COPPERAS COVE â Room 12 of the kindergarten hallway at Clements/Parsons Elementary School in Copperas Cove erupted in shouts of triumph Wednesday afternoon.
Four students and four faculty members of the Student 2 Student program found out they had won a national award, learning that they were truly the top Dawgs in the nation.
The students won the Military Child Education Coalitionâs annual Elementary Student 2 Student Team of the Year Award.
MCEC is a nonprofit organization that is based in Harker Heights. Founded in 1998, it focuses on ensuring quality educational opportunity for veteran-connected children in the United States.
âI am ecstatic â Iâm on cloud nine,â said Audrey Trahan, a counselor at the school and the lead representative for the S2S program. âI cannot believe that we won.â
VFW Post 8577 sponsors Pack 251.
The Pinewood Derby is a race of handmade cars down a sloped track, propelled only by gravity.
The first Pinewood Derby was held May 15, 1953, in Manhattan Beach, California, according to Scout Life magazine. Boy Scouts of America first published about the event in a BSA publication in a 1954 issue of Boysâ Life magazine.
Since then, many Cub Scout packs have put the event on their annual calendars.
In Copperas Cove, Mason Juhan has been with the Cub Scouts for two years and was this yearâs winner for his entire pack and overall winner of the Pinewood Derby 2021.