By Andrew Edwards
Staff Writer
Wetumpka Middle School is about to send around 25 of their 100 beta club students to Fort Worth, Texas to compete at the national convention. This is first time that WMS will attend the event.
The team recently attended the state beta club convention in Birmingham, AL – and they didn’t come back empty handed.
Part of the WHS team participated in a category called ‘songfest’ which is where students had to modify a popular song to fit the theme of the state convention. The students used the template from the song “Runaway Baby” by Bruno Mars and changed the lyrics to the convention theme of “make it as far as you can see”.
To qualify for nationals, the team had to place either 1st, 2nd or 3rd. WHS students left no doubt as they took home the 1st place prize.
The team also placed 2nd in group talent, which is where several members of the beta club performed an educational skit that was based on segregation.
Two members of the group talent team, Kyla Webhart and Abby Mullino, have been invited to perform a new skit as an opening routine at the National Beta Club Convention. They will perform alongside just a handful of other students from across the country.
The team also qualified student Ella Higby in the creative arts category. She had one hour to write about the prompt ‘If your favorite movie or book character came to life for a day, how would you spend it with them?’. She placed 4th.
More so, Higby explained that she was initially supposed to be in the poetry category but was swapped to creative writing at the last minute. Even with the sudden change, she was still able to secure a place at the national convention.
“We were all hugging and crying when we found out that we made it to nationals. It means so much for us to come from a small community and have the opportunity to compete against so many other schools from all across the country at the national convention,” said beta club member Abby Mullino.
Now the attention moves to fundraising for the convention.
WMS is hosting a yard sale event on campus March 14th from 7:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. The event will also have a raffle and silent auction to win various prizes. Please try to make it out to this event and support a team that’s due for big things once they arrive in Texas this summer!
