FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications (304) 696-7153
 

SCORES competition attracts more than 2,600 students to Marshall

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – More than 2,600 high school students from West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky will visit Marshall University’s Huntington campus Saturday, March 15 to participate in the 31^st annual Search Committee on Recognition of Excellent Students (SCORES) Academic Festival.

SCORES is an academic competition that allows high school students to compete in different fields of study that are offered at Marshall. The purpose of the event is to recognize academic excellence, create relationships with area high schools, show the importance of college attendance and recruit talented high school students.

“SCORES brings more than 2,000 prospective students to campus each year,” said Jean Gilman, Marshall’s director of recruitment. “It is very exciting for us to be able to hold a competition on campus and at the same time show all the prospective students the university.”

The event, which runs from 8 a.m. to about 3 p.m., is open to high school sophomores, juniors and seniors. The students compete in a variety of tests, contests and performances which are evaluated by Marshall faculty and staff. Areas of competition for SCORES include business, education, fine arts, journalism and mass communications, and science.

Awards will be given to the top seven students in the SCORES competition, with one student winning the $1,000 Robert Wheeler Scholarship and a Marshall tuition waiver. The other six students will receive Marshall tuition waivers. First-, second- and third-place awards will be given for each division. The schools in the competition will be divided into five categories and compete for trophies.

The SCORES awards ceremony takes place at 1 p.m. at Cam Henderson Center. For more information, contact the SCORES offices at (304) 696-2246.

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