Jake Mealey (president)  Favorite Color: Green  Favorite Subject: Science  Reason for Joining Reading Olympics: I enjoy reading and making new friends in a exciting environment  Fun Fact: I enjoy watching livestreams on twitch.tv, as well as playing video games on my PC.

Abi Lua (vice-president)  Favorite Color: Red  Favorite Subject: English and Latn  Reason for Joining Reading Olympics: “I love reading but, due to time constraints, often find myself unable to read as much as I would like to. with reading Olympics, I am given more of a priority to read books and therefore am able to somehow fit in reading as a part of my academic schedule.  Fun Fact: After watching a movie, reads the accompanying Wikipedia article on it

Tutu Gbadebo (Secretary)  Favorite Color: Purple  Favorite Subject: History  Reason for Joining Reading Olympics: “I love Reading.”  Fun Fact: Knows the names of the kings and queens of England since William I

Anika Tahsin (Treasurer)  Favorite Color: Green  Favorite Subject: English  Reason for Joining Reading Olympics: “I felt nostalgic of my elementary days when I first started high school, and seeing the Reading Olympics booth at the activities fair sophomore year brought back good memories of when I was in Reading Olympics in elementary School.”  Fun Fact: unintentionally kills all potted plants that she is put in charge of

Mrs. McKee (Advisor)  Favorite Color: Blue  Favorite Subject: English  Reason for becoming Reading Olympics Advisor: “ I want to hang around people who recognize the importance and magic of reading.”  Fun Fact: Plays the violin and has played over 200 weddings

What is Reading Olympics?  Reading Olympics is a club in which we read books from a set list of 44.  In late March – early April, we go to a competition, usually at Wissahickon High School, and answer content-based questions from the books.  Each question is worth one point and the goal is to have fun with your peers and make new friends.

What is Reading Olympics? (continued)  Before the competition day, after school we will meet here in K126 and have a pizza party to celebrate how far we have come.  Note: There are dues for this club! Dues are $5 and will contribute to snacks for each meeting as well as the pizza party at the end of the year!

Things in the works  Possible Charity event? Ideas?  Possible field trip at the end of the year? A tour of the Free Library of Philadelphia?  Future T-shirt meeting (TBD)  Future fundraiser?

New Method  This year, in order to have all the books read by at least one person, we will each pull a book at random from a hat. This book is your book for the week. If you pull a book that you have already read, please place that slip back in the hat and draw again.

Meetings  Our full club meetings will occur on the first Monday of each month leading up to the competition. We will add meetings if we feel it is necessary.  During each meeting, it is expected from each member to share important details about the book that they have read for this meeting. In addition, a summary of the book is to be submitted to the Wikispace page!

Wikispace

IMC  A number of our books are located in the IMC here at the high school  Lets go down to the IMC to see!