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Framingham Honors 10 Student WordMasters

WordMasters is a vocabulary competition. Tuesday, 10 Framingham students in grades 3-8 were honored for having the best overall score in their grade level.

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Nationally, 225,000 students compete in WordMasters, a vocabulary competition based on completing analogies.

Tuesday night, the Framingham School Committee recognized Framingham's best WordMasters.

The WordMasters program in the Framingham Public Schools is sponsored by the gifted and talented program (SAGE), overseen by director Diane Modest. The program is offered to all students in grades 3-8 in the Framingham Public Schools.

This year, three students in Framingham scored nationally. They were: 

  • Atharva Weling of Hemenway Elementary, Grade 5
  • Katie Ellsworth of Fuller Middle, Grade 6
  • Varun Tekur of Walsh Middle, Grade 8
Those three were honored along with the following students, who had the highest overall average over three WordMasters challenges in their grade or team. 

  • Molly O'Mara, Hemenway Elementary, grade 3
  • Aditya Weling, Hemenway Elementary, grade 3
  • Jake Cahn, Potter Road Elementary, grade 3
  • Noah Marshall, Hemenway Elementary, grade 4
  • Martine Schwan, Potter Road Elementary, grade 4
  • Sophie Stick, McCarthy Elementary, grade 5
  • Ayushi Shirke, Walsh Middle, grade 7
In WordMasters, students master 75 interesting and rigorous vocabulary words, which are used to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships.

Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically, said Modest.

Each student was awarded a WordMasters medal and given a certificate.

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