Edgewood student wins reading and writing contest

Edgewood Elementary School fifth-grader Tre` Roberson recently won the HOAR Program Management/GoDaddy Bowl Reading and Writing Contest.   

He was presented with the award and a $5,000 prize during the 13th annual program ceremony at the Mobile Civic Center Theater. 

The contest was open to all fifth-graders in the state of Alabama, the Gulf Coast regions of Florida and Mississippi, and focused on improving students’ reading and writing skills.

Ten students were selected as finalists, and they had to submit a book report about Gennifer Choldenko’s book Al Capone Does my Shirts: A Tale from Alcatraz.  

Over the past 12 years, the HOAR Program Management/GoDaddyBowl Reading and Writing Program has donated more than $234,500 in scholarship money.

More than 2,000 fourth -grade students attended this year’s awards ceremony. 

Tre’ is the son of Jay and Niva Roberson.