Winners of First Annual Central Pennsylvania Memory Competition to Compete Nationally; ''Mental Athletes'' Demonstrate the Powers of Memory.HERSHEY, Pa. -- In the first Annual Central Pennsylvania Memory Competition held January 21 at Cumberland Valley High School Cumberland Valley High School (CV) is a coeducational public high school located in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The school was founded in 1954. The mascot is an Eagle. in Mechanicsburg, Pa, 25 students or "mental athletes" from central Pennsylvania high schools competed in teams of five to see who had the best memory abilities. This winning team will compete nationally at the USA National Memory Championship, on March 11, 2006 in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . The winning team was from Mechanicsburg High School, and included senior Erin Luley and juniors Jen Nauss, Andrew Castongua, Dan Niesen, and Billy Celline. The team was coached by Gifted Education Gifted education is a broad term for special practices, procedures and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented. Programs providing such education are sometimes called Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) or Teacher, Monica Shirey. Students who participated in the competition came from three area high schools: East Pennsboro, Cumberland Valley High School, and Mechanicsburg Area Senior High Mechanicsburg Area Senior High is a secondary school located on 500 South Broad Street in the borough of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Communities Mechanicsburg Area Senior High (MASH), which accepts Students ranging from Grade 9-12, serves several communities, including School. In the five "mental athletic" events, the students prove that the human brain can learn and retain massive quantities of information if trained properly. The students, like sports athletes, trained for these games with their coaches. The five memory competitions included recall of a deck of 52 playing cards playing cards, parts of a set or deck, used in playing various games of chance or skill. The origin of playing cards is unknown, and almost as many theories exist as there are historians of the subject. in less than five minutes, memorizing a string of 1,000 digits, memorizing 500 random words, an unpublished poem and 99 names and faces. Rhonda Hess, president of Rhonda Hess & Associates, a leadership development firm in Hershey, Pa, and Pennsylvania Memory Chairperson, sponsored the event, which was co-hosted and co-sponsored by Donna Benson, president of the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education. Rhonda taught the students' teachers memory systems in order to prepare them for the competition. Long hours of coaching by the teachers paid off. Erin Luley came within two points of breaking the eight-year standing USA record for poem memorization mem·o·rize tr.v. mem·o·rized, mem·o·riz·ing, mem·o·riz·es 1. To commit to memory; learn by heart. 2. Computer Science To store in memory: . Rhonda Hess is committed to building future leaders Future Leaders is a UK schools-led charitable organisation that aims to widen the pool of talented leaders especially for urban challenging secondary schools. It was founded in March 2006 by Nat Wei, a former founder of Teach First. both in and out of the office, and works as a professional executive leadership coach. She has served as a judge and keynote speaker at the USA National Games and will present at the 9'th annual USA Games on March 11, 2006. |
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