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Wynbrooke Class Wins Jeopardy! Game and a Celebrity Visit
Kelly Miyahara from Jeopardy! recently dropped in to play a round of the game with fifth graders at Wynbrooke after the class won a contest.
If you're smarter than these fifth graders, you must be a genius.
Cynamon Walden-Small's class at Wynbrooke Elementary won an interactive, electronic version of Jeopardy! from the game show and WATL-TV, and Kelly Miyahara, a Jeopardy! Clue Crew member, personally visited the class recently and played the game with them.
The questions weren't easy and touched on anything from the transcontinental railroad to an Asian mountain range, but the three teams missed only a couple of questions through the whole game, and they had a blast.
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"I am so impressed," Miyahara said several times. "That was amazing."
The class was one of five in the metro Atlanta area that won the Jeopardy game and a visit from Miyahara by producing a winning video. (Click on the video to see the students performing the winning song for Miyahara.)
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The game will be used in class in the future, Walden-Small said. "You can program your own questions" into it, she said. The technology makes it more exciting to learn, she said.
Walden-Small is a big Jeopardy! fan, and when she heard the contest advertised, she knew her class had to try. She wrote the lyrics to a tune from Sesame Street.
"I'm so proud of them," she said of her students. "They just really did an awesome job."
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