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nowledge Masters is a challenging, academic competition in which teams of students compete internationally without leaving their own schools. The KMO began in 1983 with 72 schools and it now annually attracts up to 4,000 schools and 60,000 participants from the U.S. and several other countries. The 2006 grade 5 Knowledge Masters team prepared for their competition on Monday January 23, 2006 by practicing every day the previous week during lunch and after school on that Friday. KMO coaches, Anne 2006 Grade 5 Knowledge Masters Team Backus and Jennifer Koltutsky, helped students prepare to compete against students from other International schools as well as schools in the U.S. All 5th grade students interested in participating are welcome, making the SAS approach very different from many other schools. In most cases, teams are selective and practice for many weeks prior to the competition. The 2006 grade 6 Knowledge Masters team practices as a group regularly during the school year. Peggy Smith acts as the advisor to this lunch time activity. The team met after school on Wednesday, January 25, for their ďŹ rst competition. The 6th grade team is a smaller group of dedicated members, but all 6th graders are welcome to join the team which meets every Thursday from 1:00pm to 1:30pm in room M308. SAS has traditionally done very well in the competition, scoring in the top ten percent of the approximately 300 schools entering the competition. The scores for this year were not ďŹ nalized as of the printing of this article. Congratulations to all the students that participated in the January Knowledge Masters competition. The 5th grade students participating are Chelsea Lin, Matthew Ooi, Tara Sivaskaudan, Rohan 2006 Grade 6 Knowledge Masters Team Desai, Piyush Talwar, Sky Lalwani, Tanvi Ahuja, Ratan Kaushal, Naina Mullick, Arushi Carlra, Sylvia Shim, Laila Zaidi, Sarah Choo, Niloofar Farzaneh, Derek Wang, Nicole Wu and Alex Briskman. The 6th students participating are Wang Ki Chung, Seung Joon Sung, Ted Bang, Karel Putri Abdi and Jimmy Yoon. The next Knowledge Masters competition will be held in March. All 5th and 6th grade students are welcome to participate and should contact Mrs. Backus or Mrs. Koltutsky in the 5th grade or Mrs. Smith in the 6th grade for more information.