POTTSTOWN, Penn.–More than 100 students gathered at the Pottstown Middle School to participate in the Pottstown Reading Olympics, where representatives from Diamond CU, including the mascot, Chip, were on hand to cheer the students on.
Diamond CU has been the sponsor of the Reading Olympics for 12 consecutive years, which helps the school to buy needed supplies, transport participants, and provide matching t-shirts for the students to show off their team spirit.
The annual Reading Olympics event encourages children from all Pottstown elementary schools to get excited about reading, learn teamwork skills, and improve reading comprehension. The event is a rapid-recall question and answer competition that asks teams of students to answer questions pulled from 45 books. Pottstown holds this day-long Reading Olympics event, coordinated by Karen Neitz, at the middle school to prepare students before the larger Montgomery County Reading Olympics.
“The Reading Olympics is a great tradition for the Diamond CU Team and compliments Diamond’s other work with Pottstown School District, including Junior Achievement, speaking to Financial Literacy classes, and holding a Financial Reality Fair,” stated John Faust, President/CEO of Diamond CU.