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Check out the Winning Entries:
Comic Strip Category:
John Caudill, 8th grade,
  Edward E. Drew Middle School
Ben Jennings, 11th grade,
  Stafford High School
Jennifer Louie, 6th grade,
  Chancellor Middle School
Stephen Thompson, 10th grade,
  Home schooled
Phillip Wallace, 11th grade,
  Spotsylvania High School
 
Editorial Cartoons:
Evan Graese, 7th grade,
  Thornburg Middle School
Ben Jennings, 11th grade,
  Stafford High School
Katie McGhee, 8th grade,
  Spotsylvania Middle School
Anne Marie Paquette, 12th grade,
  Chancellor High School
Brianna Sayasithsena, 8th grade,
  Edward E. Drew Middle School
Stephen Thompson, 10th grade,
  Home Schooled
Ad Design Category:
Cody Barr, 12th grade,
  Massaponax High School
Lauren Fortune, 11th grade,
  Massaponax High School
Casie Harry, 12th grade,
  Massaponax High School
Jordan Humphries, 8th grade,
  Edward E. Drew Middle School
Emily Rafferty, 8th grade,
  Edward E. Drew Middle School
Bill Symanowski, 12th grade
  Stafford High School
 
Photography Category:
Lindsay Dawson, 9th grade,
  Fredericksburg Academy
Gillan Ludlow, 12th grade,
  Stafford High School
Lucas Tickel, 7th grade,
  Dixon-Smith Middle School

By Bob Rouse
Illustrated by Frank Yates

Catch all 10 chapters of Brain Freeze on Mondays in The Free Lance–Star. March 31–June 2

Faced with losing their school, a team of students tries to win a cross-country scavenger hunt. If they can solve the clues and beat the clock, they’ll get a new school. But someone wants them to fail...

Kids: Come along!
Solve the weekly clues to identify the team’s next destination. Plot their course on the map inside. Along the way, learn about our nation’s history and heroes and First Amendment rights. Save each installment in this folder to create your own 10-chapter book.

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This information is provided for teachers who ordered the BrainFreeze NIE package. Use the password included with the resources we sent to you, or contact us at email to access this information.
Read the full story | Weekly Rap Clues

PET STORIES CONTEST
GRADES K-5

We're looking for authors and illustrators to submit entries about their pets – real or imaginary – for a "Pet Stories" series in The Free Lance–Star's Town & County magazine.

Winners have been notified. Read winning entries in The Free Lance–Star’s Town & County Magazine; Grades K & 1 on April 12, grades 2 & 3 on April 19, and grades 5 & 6 on April 26.


The results are in–
Using newspapers in the classroom increases test scores! Of course, NIE teachers already know this. Now, we have definitive studies to prove it.
Read more.