The first weekend in February Claire participated in the Optimist Brain Bowl. She was one of five team members with an alternate. They had to take a test to qualify for the team. Yes, she is one to two girls on the team. The other girl is her best friend, Dana. They practiced after school for months to get ready for the competition. They didn't really practice "knowledge" but mostly how to work as a team.

Claire's team competed against 26 other elementary schools from the Denver Metro area and placed 4th! Woohoo!

The questions were hard!

This is her school's third year competing.