Spaulding Elementary School students win grand prize in National Reading Challenge
Epic!, a leading digital media brand for kids, challenged classrooms across the country to read a total of seven million books for Epic!’s Spring Into Reading Challenge from April 30th to May 4th. Classrooms read a total of 7,399,783 books in the five-day challenge, surpassing the goal.
Every elementary school class that collectively read at least 50 books on Epic! during the challenge earned an exclusive Epic! Reading Challenge Certificate to display in their classrooms. The top 20 classes with the most books read also won a class ice cream party, plus six-month home subscriptions to Epic! and an exclusive Epic! swag pack.
The Spring into Reading Challenge was Epic!’s most ambitious reading contest to date. During the winter, Epic! hosted the Blizzard of Books Reading Challenge with more than six million books read in total.
Grand prize winners span the nation and include classrooms in the following schools:
•Spaulding Elementary School, Lamar, SC
•Aurora Elementary School, Aurora, IN
•KIPP Valiant Community Prep, East Palo Alto, CA
•Lucy Mae McDonald Elementary, Ferris, TX
•Arbuckle Elementary School, Arbuckle, CA
•Dieterich Elementary, Dieterich, IL
•Wildomar Elementary, Wildomar, CA
•Guth Elementary School, Perkasie, PA
•Linden Elementary School, Linden, NJ
•Hudsonville Christian School, Hudsonville, MI
•St. Paul Lutheran School, Stover, MO
•Encinal Elementary, Encinal, TX
•Parishville-Hopkinton Central School, Parishville, NY
•Medary Elementary, Brookings, SD
•Sommer Elementary, Austin, TX
•St. John’s School, Houston, TX
•Foley Intermediate School, Foley, AL
•Hinckley Elementary School, Hinckley, MN
•Callison Elementary, Round Rock, TX
•Fairview Elementary, Fairfield, CA
Congratulations to the Grand Prize winners and all the amazing Epic! readers!
About Epic!
Founded in 2014 and based in Redwood City, CA, Epic! is a kids digital media brand for kids 12 and under. Epic!’s award-winning subscription service includes unlimited access to 25,000 books and 2,500 videos from leading publishers such as HarperCollins, Macmillan, National Geographic Kids, Smithsonian Enterprises, and Encyclopaedia Britannica. Kids on Epic! are encouraged to explore their interests and learn in a fun, safe, and engaging environment that includes fiction and non-fiction titles, “read to me” books, learning videos and teacher-created quizzes and reading lists. Epic! is used in 87% of U.S. elementary schools and consistently a top app in the Apple App Store. Epic! was founded by Suren Markosian, founder of several successful technology startups, and Kevin Donahue, former YouTube, Google and Disney executive, with the support of top tier investors and veterans of the children’s publishing industry. To learn more about Epic!, visit http://www.getepic.com , or follow Epic! on Facebook and Twitter.
