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Siegel Middle, Siegel High and Stewarts Creek High Beta Club members place at national competition Aug 02, 2021 at 06:03 pm by WGNS
By AMANDA CHEUVRONT and KEITH RYAN CARTWRIGHT
All their springtime work paid off for the Beta club members from Siegel Middle with a pair of top five finishes at the National Beta Convention, including first place in the performing arts solo, duo, trio category.
The first-place team included McKenna Elliott, Samantha Festervand and Reese Lynam and they beat out more than 30 schools competing in-person and even more virtual entries.
Fellow eighth-grader Noah Wright took third in social studies.
This was the second year in a row Wright placed at the National Convention. He was third in the seventh grade competition last year.
Through the pandemic, the
Boys & Girls Club has also been doing what it can to provide in-person distance learning support to small groups of children at McGrath and Newhall elementary schools.
Now for spring break, the club gave those same students the opportunity to take a break from school and instead continue exploring the arts, be active and have fun with all the same health and safety protocols on the two campuses.
“Really, it’s about the kids having fun right now because what we’ve been doing with them each day (normally) is helping them with schoolwork,” said Matt Nelson, CEO of the club. “It’s been such a stressful year that this is the most time they get to just unwind and do fun things, play outside, do art projects, fun activities and games. The kids haven’t really been able to play like that for a long time.”