GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD — The art of cursive is slowly leaving schools, but one student is proving the skill, isn’t gone forever.
Summer Hoefakker is a fifth grader at Plymouth Christian School and she has earned national recognition for her handwriting. Every year, her class submits their assignments in the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest.
In first, third and fourth grade, Summer won her class competition. In kindergarten, she won the state championship. This year, she rose in the ranks, winning the regional competition.
Summer has always had good penmanship, and she was happy to see that she had advanced in the competition this year.
“I was kind of nervous at first, but then after I heard I got regional, I was like excited. It surprised me,” Hoefakker said.
She has one year left to enter the competition which ends in sixth grade.
