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Photos: NSSC 2008: Round 4

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• Ice Cream Social fun: Twister!
• Figuring out which pieces go where in this game of Perfection, a Hasbro game. Eastern Greene Middle School Team 1 (IN) and Eastern Greene Middle School Team 2 (IN) students.
• The coach gets in on the action, playing Perfection, too, with an Eastern Greene Middle School Team 1 (IN) student.
• Youth Activities of Zion "YAZ" (UT) enjoys speed Connect Four.
• John Glenn Middle School (MA) sutdents laugh out loud while playing Pictionary for Kids with committee member Donna Paul and their coach.
• A coach and Rising Star Montessori (GA) student face off.
• A group gathers for a game of Taboo.
• Hopkinton Middle School Team 3 (MA) plays Pictionary fo Kids against Lexington Montessori School Team 1 (MA).
• Pictureka enjoyed with a sundae covered in about one cup of whipped cream!
• Ben Greenwood, Deborah Lunder (parent/coach of Princeton Day School (NJ)), Gregg Foster enjoy the sundae table treats.
• One of the glamorous chandeliers at the Providence Biltmore.
• The gorgeous glass elevator that goes to the top of the Biltmore, partially outside the building.
• The Skittles room was full of students waiting patiently for the chance to play an expert. Here, Lexington MA SCRABBLE Club No. 108 (MA) (obscured by onlookers) plays Jason Katz-Brown.
• Lexington MA SCRABBLE Club No. 108 (MA) vs. Jason Katz-Brown, expert player and co-creator of Quackle, the best electronic SCRABBLE opponent and game analyzer!
• Stefan Fatsis and Quincy Cerebino-Hess (from Windham) square off against Ridgefield Library Team 1 (CT).
• Joel Sherman (right) plays Stephen Sneed (of Texas State Champions - Trinity Bend Christian School (TX). Stephen's mom/coach and his partner, Peter Olson, stand to his left.
• Arizona Cactus-Pine Council Inc. Team 1 (AZ) play Joe Edley while their coaches look on with great interest.
• ESPN filmed some rules delivered by the students. Here Stefan Fatsis gives Quincy Cerebino-Hess (of Windham Nesmith Library (NH)) a line about learning the 2-letter words.
• Three girls versus two boys: Lexington Montessori School Team 1 (MA) and Mohini (of Lexington MA SCRABBLE Club No. 108 (MA)) versus Lexington Montessori School Team 3 (MA).
• Quincy Cerebino-Hess (of Windham Nesmith Library (NH)) and his dad.
• A student from Lexington Montessori School Team 3 (MA) asks Ben Lyons to sign his SCRABBLE folder.
• Boggle in the Ice Cream Sundae room.
• Andrew Bauer (of Ridgefield Library Team 4 (CT)) plays Bananagrams with John Chew (who brought this game with him), Randolph Middle School (NC), and a Ridgefield parent/coach.
• Hopkinton Middle School Team 2 (MA) plays Connect Four.
• A table after game play was over.
• Saturday morning, a student makes use of the loose, scattered tiles to form a giant two-letter-word string. Impressive! All these are good words!
• The NSSC 2008 made the front page of Saturday's The Providence Journal!
• Ridgefield Library Team 4 (CT), at least one of them seems ready for today's games to start!
• Our Lady of Victory (NY) Team 2 (NY) in fun yellow shirts, ready to play Solomon Schechter Day School (Newton) Team 3 (MA).
• Winterhaven Elementary School (OR) with their first rack of the game.
• Round 4's first bingo: WIELdED, played by Arizona Cactus-Pine Council Inc. Team 1 (AZ) for 78, was challenged by their opponents Walter C. Young Middle School Team 1 (FL).
• Another opening bingo play, RuDDIER, made by Hopkinton Middle School Team 2 (MA) vs. Walter C. Young Middle School Team 2 (FL).
• Solomon Schechter Day School of Nassau County (NY) checks the game score.
• Hopkinton Middle School Team 1 (MA) students talk to one another behind their hands in barely heard whispers.
• Slow on shutter, Hopkinton Middle School Team 1 (MA) pulls out all their tiles to play JAWLESS for 81 points, hooking beneath the A in AVE (just played by their opponents, Our Lady of Victory (MD) Team 3 (MD)).
• Atlanta Tucker Community Center (GA). Looking sharp, Joey Krafchick, in a button-down shirt.
• Clarke Middle School (MA) vs. Emerson Middle School Team 1 (CA), moments after an overdraw.
• Table 1, Evangelical Christian School Team 1 (TN) focusing intently beside annotator Gregg Foster.
• Scarsdale SCRABBLE Club (NY) vs. Princeton Day School (NJ), viewed from the back of the latter.
• Texas State Champions - Trinity Bend Christian School (TX) holding WANTERS on their rack vs. Atlanta Tucker Community Center (GA), drawing replacement tiles.
• Smitten with School SCRABBLE T-shirts that match their eyes perfectly! Eastern Greene Middle School Team 1 (IN), they aren't brothers, but are cousins, which explains the likeness!
• Dalton School (NY) puts down GARGLER, which hooked to make TIR* vs. Evangelical Christian School Team 2 (TN).
• The board in progress after GARGLER was played in the Dalton School (NY) vs. Evangelical Christian School Team 2 (TN) game. They students are at the challenge machine as this shot is taken.
• A nine-letter word! UNEQUALER* played to the ER by Lexington Montessori School Team 1 (MA) in a game with North Clay Jr. High Team Red (IL).
• Director Ben Greenwood looks up the challenge of UNEQUALER* in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition. The play was ruled unacceptable. Great try though!
• Ben Greenwood looks up UNEQUALER*.
• Donna Paul picks up the game's result slip.
• Seneca Middle School (SC) vs. Evangelical Christian School Team 3 (TN).
• Event trophies and wrapped prizes.
• Arizona Cactus-Pine Council Inc. Team 1 (AZ) leans over the velvet rope to discuss their game with their coaches.
• Coaches meet to discuss fundraising ideas with Dinah Fuller, who coaches the five teams from Indiana attending NSSC 2008. This year, her students raised $10,000 to make this trip possible.
• Atlanta Tucker Community Center (GA) vs. Texas State Champions - Trinity Bend Christian School (TX).
• Hopkinton Middle School Team 2 (MA) vs. Walter C. Young Middle School Team 2 (FL).
• The giant board.
• ESPN setting up bright lights to illuminate the giant board for student interviews.
• Maxwell Park Team 2 (CA) at the Zyzzyva machine. Wowsa Rapunzel!
• Stefan Fatsis interviews Scarsdale SCRABBLE Club (NY) under the bright lights.