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Results from the Division 1 Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Competition

At the Division 1 Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Competition on February 27, 2010, Cobb County was represented by McEachern High School, Lovinggood Middle School, Shallowford Falls Elementary, and Teasley Elementary. At the elementary level, Shallowford Falls Elementary took 5th place and Teasley Elementary took 2nd place. Lovinggood Middle School took 3rd place in the middle school division, and McEachern took 3rd place at the high school level. Marietta High School took first place and proceeds to the state finals at The University of Georgia on March 20, 2010. We wish them luck!

Congratulations to the winners of the West Region HRRB!
On Saturday, February 6, 2010, six Cobb County schools -- Shallowford Falls Elementary, Teasley Elementary, Lovinggood Middle, Dodgen Middle, Osborne High, and McEachern High -- along with Marietta High School competed in the West Region Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl in Carrollton, Georgia.

Teasley Elementary, Shallowford Falls Elementary, Lovinggood Middle, and McEachern High were all winners in their division and will advance to the divisional competition on Saturday, February 27, 2010. Marietta High School also advanced to the divisional competition. Congratulations to all the schools that competed at the West Region competition on February 6!


Thanks for making the Fourth Annual CCSD Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl a great success!
We are proud to announce the winners of the Fourth Annual CCSD Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl, which took place Saturday, January 30, 2010, at Allatoona High School. In the elementary division, Teasley Elementary won first place and Shallowford Falls Elementary took second; Dodgen took home the first place prize in the middle school division, with Lovinggood winning the second place award; and in the high school division, McEachern won first place, followed by Osborne High School in second place. Best of luck to these teams as they represent Cobb County Schools at the West Regional Bowl on Saturday, February 6, 2010, at the University of West Georgia.

We were also very pleased to host Marietta High School as guests in our high school competition, where they earned 370 points! Marietta High School will go on to compete in the West Regional Bowl on February 6.

Scores for each school that participated in the Bowl are listed below. Congratulations to all 32 schools that participated in the 2010 CCSD Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl!


Elementary schools
Team Name Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Total Score
Austell Intermediate 20 30 10 60 20 70 210
Belmont Hills 30 20 30 60 30 0 170
Big Shanty 50 70 50 50 30 60 310
Birney 40 50 0 40 80 50 260
Brown 10 30 10 30 50 40 170
Casa Montessori 50 50 70 30 70 60 330
Cheatham Hill 40 50 60 60 20 70 300
Dowell 30 40 0 10 20 10 110
Ford 10 30 20 20 20 30 130
Keheley 10 10 40 50 70 30 210
Kemp 20 20 20 30 70 70 230
Lewis 30 60 40 40 40 40 250
Norton Park 50 20 40 40 60 10 220
Riverside 30 10 20 30 20 10 120
Shallowford Falls 70 70 60 30 70 50 350
Still 30 70 60 60 40 40 300
Teasley 80 40 80 70 60 80 410
Middle schools
Campbell 30 20 70 60 50 30 260
Dodgen 40 80 60 50 70 50 350
Durham 20 10 10 40 20 20 120
Floyd 40 40 60 40 20 30 230
Garrett 0 50 20 30 30 30 160
Lovinggood 60 50 30 60 70 60 330
McCleskey 50 40 40 20 60 30 240
Palmer 50 30 20 30 20 40 190
Smitha 10 30 40 20 60 20 180
High schools
Allatoona 50 10 20 20 20 30 150
Kennesaw Mountain 20 20 10 50 20 10 120
Marietta 60 80 60 50 60 60 370
McEachern 50 80 60 40 50 40 320
Osborne 40 50 20 40 60 30 240
Sprayberry 30 30 60 30 30 30 210

Check out the Ruffin Reading Bowl video!
The Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl competition is all about recognizing readers and sharing the love of reading. In the competition, students compete on factual knowledge of 20 books. Elementary and middle school teams read and compete using the Georgia Book Award title list, while high school students read and compete using the Georgia Peach Teen Reader's Choice nominee list. Although a team of five students will compete against another team of five students at the same level (for example, high school students compete against other high school students) the student that buzzes in the quickest will be called upon to answer the question without assistance from teammates.

History of the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl
Helen Ruffin was the media specialist at Skyhaven Elementary School in DeKalb County until her retirement in 1992. To encourage her students to read, she created a competition game based on the Georgia Children's Book Award nominees. The idea took hold in DeKalb County and grew to a statewide competition in 2003.

 
     


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