Grove City Area School District students attended Academic Games League of America’s National Academic Games held April 24 through 25 in Kissimmee, Fla.

Students had to be undefeated or on a first-place team twice during the six local tournaments at Slippery Rock University or at the two-day regional tournament at Geneva College.

Grove City had 28 students qualify for the national tournament and 16 attended.

More than 800 students from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, West Virginia and Taiwan competed in six games over three days.

Grove City High student Chris Williams finished seventh in Propaganda in the Junior Division to bring home his first top 10 medal. He has attended the games for four years.

Also attending were Justin Vath in the Senior Division; and Matt O’Polka, Junior Division.

Middle School students Claire Coulter and Ben Hoffman were honored with their first top 10 medals at the awards ceremony. Claire placed 10th out of 90 in World Events; and Ben finished fourth out of 201 in Propaganda.

Michael Augspurger was 13th out of 208 in Mr. President and 17th out of 90 in World Events.

The World Events team of Claire, Michael, Vanessa Sprando and Brian Murone finished fifth.

Joe Hoffman finished 15th out of 201 in Propaganda; and Conner Smith was on a Linguishtik team that finished fourth in their division.

Grant Craig and Steven Shi were on an Equations team that placed second in the Elementary division. Steven and Grant, along with Elizabeth Paparone, were on the fifth-place World Events team.

Elizabeth finished 15th out of 150 in World Events; and Grant placed 17th.

Maria Wolinski placed 20th out of 183 in Mr. President.

Caroline Coulter and Jesse Mortimer also attended.

Heather Davidson, the school district’s academic games coach, received the gold Thinker trophy for coaching. This is the highest honor in Academic Games.