Contest Results

2024 Contest Results

Congratulations to the winning teams in the 2024 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	Reno Bobwhites 2 (Leavenworth County 4-H)	Mackenzie Calovich Isaiah Manus	Tyler Sale
Most Biomass	The Freshman Beans (Olathe North HS)	Cora Johnson Gabby Bullis Jim Brown	Greg Krenke
Tallest Plant	The Bubble Guppies (Olathe North HS)	Tess Conner-ortiz Kaitlyn Affield Molly Marty	Greg Krenke
Largest Leaf	Harvest Hustlers (Olathe North HS)	Mephis Rosenfeld Elena Martinez Angela Garcia-perez	Greg Krenke
Most Trifoliates	The Freshman Beans (Olathe North HS)	Cora Johnson Gabby Bullis Jim Brown	Greg Krenke
GRAND CHAMPION	Harvest Hustlers (Olathe North HS)	Mephis Rosenfeld Elena Martinez Angela Garcia-perez	Greg Krenke

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

Award	Team Name	Contestant Names	Organization and Adviser
Best Documentation	The Magical Fruit (Lyndon Agricultural Education)	Luke Graham Gage Kilgore Haley Burkdoll	Tim Kilgore
Most Biomass	Whitehill's Wildcats (Cowley County 4-H)	Weslyn Whitehill Watson Whitehill	Sarah LaGrone
Tallest Plant	Bean Boys (Riley County Grade School)	Tucker Lynch Cooper Nemecheck Beckett Schardein	Brittny England
Largest Leaf	Whitehill's Wildcats (Cowley County 4-H)	Weslyn Whitehill Watson Whitehill	Sarah LaGrone
Most Trifoliates	Fire Beans K.A. (Minneapolis Grade School)	Ayla Larson Kynlee Svitak	Kelly Marsh
GRAND CHAMPION	Whitehill's Wildcats (Cowley County 4-H)	Weslyn Whitehill Watson Whitehill	Sarah LaGrone

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 Rebecca Roth and Taylor Soehner and my research assistant Sarah Raugewitz for their work in running the contest (making videos, managing social media, grading documentation, judging plants, sorting t-shirts...the list goes on).

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