MGS Students Earn Emporia Trip for WAW Celebration!

On October 5th, fifteen of our MGS students will be headed to Emporia to attend the 66th Annual William Allen White Awards Celebration and Ceremony. The students will have a sleepover at the Emporia Recreation Center where they will have read-ins with the 2018 visiting authors. In addition, the students will visit the William Allen White house and tour Emporia State University. The William Allen White house was home to progressive Pulitzer Prize winning journalist William Allen White from 1899 until his death in 1944.

The selected MGS students worked very hard this past summer to qualify for this trip. The requirement was to read at least eight books from a list of books that have received the William Allen White award. The students then had to choose their favorite book of those eight and do a presentation on the book at the Mulvane Public Library in front of teachers, family and friends.

Our Title 1 teacher, Mrs. Alicia King, wrote a grant to the Mulvane Education Foundation last year to ask for help in funding this amazing opportunity for students to participate in the William Allen White celebration in Emporia, KS. We are excited to announce that this grant was awarded by MEF and will cover the expenses of this trip! Mrs. Katie Entwisle, the Librarian for MGS and MMS, is the organizer for this activity and trip. She has enjoyed taking students to Emporia for this celebration for the past three years.

The festivities will conclude with an Awards Ceremony, at which time student representatives will present the award winning authors with their White Award Medals. The ceremony will include speeches from the authors. What an exciting time for our students to be able to meet and listen to some of the authors of the books they read over the summer!