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Doing us proud

Hard work and 21st-century skills are reflected in Riverview team’s success

Riverview Elementary School turned in the kind of performance this month that the entire community can be proud of – and that bodes well for the future. Compliments on a job well done.

Riverview’s team, the Bumfuzzlers, took second place in the Destination Imagination Global Finals held in Knoxville, Tennessee, May 22-25. In doing so, it beat out 80 other entrants in their class, including state champions from around the country and 19 foreign entrants – eight from China alone.

Their performance was not only a competitive success and a source of local bragging rights, it was a triumph of the sort that tested the intellectual and cognitive skills that will produce real advances in the years to come. This was a 21st-century win.

Destination Imagination is a New Jersy-based nonprofit that comes up with thought-provoking projects from which teams choose a category. The Bumfuzzlers’ challenge involved sound waves and a machine that generated two sounds using two physical methods and two visual displays.

The team began work on the project in October and won the state title in April. That qualified the Bumfuzzlers to go to the international competition. Not bad for a project completed on weekends and after school.

A standing ovation is hard to do in print, but earning the community’s applause are fifth-graders Shaw Kassay, the son of Emily and John Kassay; Harrison Beattie, the son of Alana and Todd Beattie; Anna McCulloch, the daughter of Peggy and Kevin McCulloch; Kenzie Galloway, the daughter of Elizabeth Gordon; Grace Holst, the daughter of Jon Holst and Cara-Lyn Lappen; and Emy Mattox, the daughter of Alison Mulholland and Paul Mattox. The only fourth-grader, Avery Hand, is the daughter of Laura and Jim Hand.

From all of Durango, thanks.



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