2025 Contest Results

Congratulations to the winning teams in the 2025 Willie ant the Beanstalk Contest

Division 1 (9^th-12^th grade) Full Division 1 results

Award	Team Name (Organization)	Contestant Names	Adviser
Best Documentation	The Vanilla Pickles (Hartford HS Ag Ed)	Faith Stone Connor Trester Emmalie Bess	Staci Garriott
Most Biomass	Olpe Eagles (Olpe High School)	Clara Traffanstedt Kyla Kuhlmann	Staci Garriott
Tallest Plant	Wolfe Pack (Cowley County 4-H)	Anna Wolfe Asher Wolfe	Sarah LaGrone
Largest Leaf	The Beanbags (Olpe High School)	Corbin Tyson Ryker Windle	Staci Garriott
Most Trifoliates	Olpe Eagles (Olpe High School)	Clara Traffanstedt Kyla Kuhlmann	Staci Garriott
GRAND CHAMPION	Olpe Eagles (Olpe High School)	Clara Traffanstedt Kyla Kuhlmann	Staci Garriott

 

Division 2 (K-8^th grade) Full Division 2 results

Award	Team Name (Organization)	Contestant Names	Adviser
Best Documentation	Grown Right 4H Team 1 (Grown Right 4H Club)	Finlee Pyles Walter Bazemore Faye Bazemore	Katy Langford
Most Biomass	Girl Group (Central Elementary School)	Lynex Hobart Peyton Maple Stevie Henning	Tammy Pippitt
Tallest Plant	Golden King Cobras (Central Elementary School)	Hayden Henderson Zyon Lansford Easton Neubecker	Tammy Pippitt
Largest Leaf	Girl Group (Central Elementary School)	Lynex Hobart Peyton Maple Stevie Henning	Tammy Pippitt
Most Trifoliates	Girl Group (Central Elementary School)	Lynex Hobart Peyton Maple Stevie Henning	Tammy Pippitt
GRAND CHAMPION*	Whitehill Wildcats (Cowley County 4-H)	Watson Whitehill Weslyn Whitehill	Sarah LaGrone

2025 Contest Summary

• 203 Teams, with 547 contestants completed
• 143 Teams finished the contest, with 63 teams completing remote judging

2025 Acknowledgements

• Thank you to the Kansas Soybean Commission, for providing the funding for the contest, including all the T-Shirts and awards!
• Thank you to all the advisers who helped the students grow soybeans and learn about plant growth and developement.
• Thank you to my students Rain Frueh and Eli Hallauer afor their work in running the contest (updateing the website, ordering shirts & awards, grading documentation, judging plants, sorting t-shirts...the list goes on).

*The best documentation score was used as the tie-breaker for Grand Champion