Read to the Final Four winners announced

Because the NCAA and the Cleveland Native Organizing Committee put together to host the 2024 NCAA Girls’s Last 4 this weekend at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, third graders from 4 Better Cleveland faculties had been celebrated for his or her efforts as a part of the NCAA Learn to the Last 4 program.

Designed to have interaction, encourage and incentivize elementary college students’ love of studying, the Learn to the Last 4 program challenged 1000’s of third graders within the space in a March Insanity-style studying competitors. Taking part faculties and college students had been awarded particular incentives as they superior by the nine-week program.

Greater than 115 faculties within the Cleveland space participated in this system, studying a complete of greater than 13.5 million minutes. On Friday, the “Last 4” faculties are taking a subject journey to Tourney City introduced by Capital One to be acknowledged by the NCAA and the Cleveland Native Organizing Committee for his or her success.  

Our Girl of the Elms Faculty in Akron, Hannah Gibbons-Nottingham Faculty in Cleveland, Austinburg (Ohio) Elementary and Fernway Elementary in Shaker Heights had been the highest 4 faculties within the competitors, collectively studying greater than 1.3 million minutes. Our Girl of the Elms received the competitors, with 30 college students studying a median of 13,770 minutes per scholar. The varsity will obtain a Scholastic books library refresh from the NCAA, tickets to the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame and a particular Studio 525 expertise on the Cleveland Public Library. Every third grader from the Last 4 faculties obtained a prize package deal that includes objects from the NCAA, NASA and Scholastic.

“Because the program started in 2016, the NCAA has seen every metropolis take this studying problem to a brand new stage, and Cleveland has definitely accepted that problem,” mentioned Lynn Holzman, NCAA vp of girls’s basketball. “The studying enthusiasm from this metropolis and native third graders’ pleasure to decide to learn has been so superb to see all through the Learn to the Last 4.”

“After we convey huge occasions just like the NCAA Girls’s Last 4 to city, it is essential to contain the neighborhood and to make sure there is a long-term influence,” mentioned David Gilbert, president and CEO of the Better Cleveland Sports activities Fee. “The dedication of the 1000’s of scholars who participated on this program and skim greater than 13.5 million minutes illustrates what a brilliant future now we have in Northeast Ohio. We’re grateful to the NCAA for initiatives like this, which can go away an enduring impression on college students all through the Better Cleveland space.”