Xtreme Challenge brings eight high schools to campus
April 1, 2008

Contributed to Crusader

The third annual Xtreme Challenge brought more than 140 students and sponsors from eight area high schools to the campus of Seward County Community College Wednesday. Academic challenges and campus tours were presented for visiting students during the morning, followed by an awards ceremony to recognize winners.
“I thought it was an excellent recruiting event for SCCC,” said Celeste Donovan, dean of student services. “Anytime we get a group of high school students to visit campus and see how well maintained it is and give them a chance to meet faculty helps college involvement.”
Satanta High School student Brittany Nimz won first place overall in the Xtreme Challenge and took home a laptop and a $300 SCCC scholarship as her prizes.
Nimz competed in Entrepreneurship, Keyboarding and Document Processing, and Jeopardy Business English. She won a $25 Hastings gift card for placing second in the Administrative Professionals academic category.
“I was very surprised.” Nimz said of winning the overall award.
Zeke Long of Rolla High School won a $300 SCCC scholarship and a high definition television for his second-place standing, and the third-place winner, Ian Green of Satanta High School, received a digital camera. Overall winners must compete in three of the contests offered, and they must be in at least two academic categories.
Rolla High School earned the Xtreme Challenge Overall High School Award for 2008.
The nine academic categories were open to all high school students, freshmen through seniors. Each contest ranked the top 10 competitors, and, at the end of the day, all contestant points were tallied to determine the high school with the most overall points. High schools represented in the SCCC challenges were Bucklin, Moscow, Elkhart, Liberal, Rolla, Satanta, Southwestern Heights and Turpin, Okla.
Chris Flowers of Liberal High School won a video mp3 player in a drawing from names of students who took campus tours.
The top student in each of the nine academic challenge areas received an mp3 player, while the second-place overall student in each challenge received a gift certificate to Hastings, and the third-place winner in each academic category received a flash drive. Overall winners in each academic category are listed below.
Marcia Hatcher, marketing instructor and coordinating business division chairperson, is hoping that next year even more students will be able to win prizes, with not only category winners but challenge winners receiving awards.