Clover Bowl filled with bright, young minds:Students go head to head for county supremacy

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard

Conferring on a bonus question at last week’s first ever 4-H Clover Bowl are Centertown Elementary students, from left, Cody Robinson, Candice Hennessee, Kali Page and Jacob Weddington. (Will Stewart photo)

Leaning more about Tennessee, 4-H, agriculture and family and consumer sciences, local elementary school students recently competed in the first Warren County 4-H Clover Bowl.

The quiz-bowl-like competition featured 107, four-person teams consisting of county fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders.

According to county extension agents Jamie Harris and Michael Barry, the competition was instituted as a new, fun way to get the younger students more interested in state history and geography, as well as the 4-H organization and its favored subjects, agriculture and family and consumer sciences.

Several months before the competition itself, study manuals, which included all information tested in the competition, were distributed to the participating students.

To determine which teams made it to the single-elimination county tournament, each school first held its own competition.

The winning team from each of the grades at each of the participating schools advanced.

Fourth-grade tournament winners included the Dibrell Elementary School class of Mrs. Barbara Hillis, first place; and the West Elementary School class of Mrs. Irma Jordan, second place. Fifth-grade tournament winners included the Morrison Elementary School class of Mrs. Betsy McBride, first place; and the Centertown Elementary School class of Mrs. Regina Woodlee, second place. Sixth-grade winners included the Dibrell Elementary School class of Mrs. Sharon Cantrell, first place; and the Eastside Elementary School class of Ms. Lynette Maynard, second place.