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Royal City student excels at Global Amazing Shake

| June 5, 2020 12:31 AM

ROYAL CITY — Five sixth-grade students from Royal Intermediate School competed in the Global Amazing Shake in May, and one of them, Logan Piper, placed seventh overall.

“It was amazing to compete at that level,” he said.

Due to the closure of schools, the event was held virtually and included fifth- through eighth-grade students from around the world. The winner was from Honduras.

This was Piper’s first year competing in the Amazing Shake, and the school’s first year competing as well. In the school-level competition held in January, Piper placed in the top three.

One of the goals of the Amazing Shake is to put students in situations that test their professionalism, their ability to recover from mistakes and their ability to improvise.

Piper feels that his experience in the Amazing Shake prepared him for job interviews and probably for future classes in school.

“He worked his tail off,” said Piper’s mother, Theresa Piper, a teacher at Royal Middle School. “It was really exciting. He did so much better than we expected.”

— Rachal Pinkerton