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LifeSmarts Team Earns 3rd Place in State Competition Lou DiCesare, IHS Business Education Teacher March 26, 2009
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Business students from Irondequoit High School competed in the 2009 LifeSmarts state competition on Tuesday, March 24TH, 2009 in Albany.
LifeSmarts ( www.lifesmarts.org ) is a quiz-show style competition that tests students' knowledge on consumer-related issues. LifeSmarts, a program sponsored and state-run by the New York Credit Union Foundation, is a consumer education competition that tests teens in grades 9-12 about personal finance, health and safety, the environment, technology, and consumer rights and responsibilities. Students begin by logging on, taking a series of practice quizzes, and forming teams to compete first online, and then at the state level, for a chance to go to the national competition, which will be held in St. Louis, MO, next month.
Twelve teams were invited to the New York State Museum in Albany to compete in the in-person LifeSmarts state championship. Nearly 60 teams across NYS registered on-line and competed through Internet tests at the LifeSmarts website.
The top twelve team scores from the Internet tests are invited to Albany to compete for the right to represent NYS at the LifeSmarts national competition, a feat that Irondequoit High School has earned eight times before this week’s competition, competing in cities such as Phoenix, New York City, Minneapolis (twice), San Diego, Washington D.C., and Orlando (twice).
The Irondequoit team members included: Students Grade Max Rick 12 Jackson Frenzel 12 Brianna Vay 12 Devin Smith 12 Brendan Frawley 12 Marcie Dineen 11
These six team members were out of the 200+ students at IHS that took the on-line tests. The top 20 test scores competed for the right to make the IHS LifeSmarts team. The Irondequoit team won its first match in the modified double-elimination contest, but lost in the semi-finals by one question to the eventual winner Saranac Lake High School. This was the 12th consecutive year Irondequoit High School has placed in the LifeSmarts state competition.
All of this made was possible by the efforts of sponsors who support the learning objectives of the LifeSmarts program. The sponsors were organized by the New York Credit Union Foundation. Transportation costs for the Irondequoit team to attend the Albany event on Tuesday were paid for by the Summit Federal Credit Union and ESL. The other eleven schools (out of the nearly 60 schools) that qualified to compete in this in-person state contest included: 1. William Floyd High School 2. Saranac Lake High School 3. Pembroke High School 4. Pittsford Mendon High School 5. Fairport High School 6. Cairo-Durham High School 7. Sachem High School 8. Starpoint High School 9. Torah Academy 10. Brentwood High School 11. Tonawanda High School
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