PCA Competes in Junior Beta Convention

By: Matalie Miles, PCA Senior

National Beta Club has become the nation’s largest independent, non-profit, educational youth organization with more than 500,000 active members. This club promotes the ideals of academic achievement, character, service and leadership among elementary and secondary school students. Pinewood Christian Academy’s Junior Beta club currently has 97 members throughout the 6^th, 7^th, and 8^th grades. National Beta members from PCA are celebrating their recent participation in the Georgia Junior Beta Virtua State Convention. This typically in-person convention was adapted due to coronavirus concerns. Members took online tests and prepared competition submissions, and many were rewarded for their efforts and will provide them the opportunity to compete at the national level at the Swan and Dolphin resort at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida during summer 2021.

Winners were announced in the following competitions:

1^st place:  Champions of Book Battle – Shelby Croft, Addison Swindell, and Erica Wasson

1^st place:  Champion of 7^th Grade Social Studies – Haleigh McWilliams

1^st place:  Champion of 7^th Grade Language Arts – Ramsey Middleton

3^rd place:  Painting – Sutton Dekle

3^rd place:  Woodworking – Will Wasson

4^th place:  6^th Grade Language Arts – Tyler Trimm

4^th place:  Jewelry – Handley Kate Lewis

4^th place:  Speech – Liam Porter

5^th place:  Mixed Media – Folsom Pound

5^th place:  8^th Grade Language Arts – Helen McDonald

Junior Beta sponsors Missi Elrod and Allison Dekle are extremely proud of all the PCA Junior Beta members who competed.

6th Grade – Front row (l to r): Shelby Croft, Addison Swindell, and Handley Kate Lewis; Back (l to r): Sutton Dekle, Tyler Trimm, Folsom Pound.

7th Grade – Front row (l to r): Ramsey Middleton and Erica Wasson.