The Wellington Landings Middle School Academic Games team placed first in the Social Studies Games tournament that concluded on Tuesday, Jan. 27.
The WLMS team members are: sixth grader Santino Carotenuto, and seventh graders Cruz Alvarez, Andrew DellaVecchia, Eli Grave de Peralta, Lucas Kearney and Cristophe Martin-Aguirre.
The Palm Beach County Academic Games League was founded in 1973 and is the local level of the Academic Games League of America. The competition features top-performing students from elementary, middle and high schools from across Palm Beach County competing in tournament-style games.
The middle school level Social Studies Games season consisted of three categories: World Events, Presidents and Theme (the Cold War this year).
The individual team members performed as follows: Social Studies (all categories/total points) – Cruz Alvarez, second place; World Events/Theme – Cruz Alvarez in first place, Eli Grave de Peralta in second place, Andrew DellaVecchia in fourth place and Santino Carotenuto in fifth place; and Presidents – Cruz Alvarez in fifth place.
Cruz Alvarez, Eli Grave de Peralta, Andrew DellaVecchia and Santino Carotenuto earned an invitation to the state tournament to be held Feb. 18. Alvarez, Grave de Peralta and DellaVecchia earned an invitation to the national tournament, to be held in April, where they will represent Palm Beach County. The team is coached by Ashley Cartagena.
