Congratulations to Millbrook High School's Federal Challenge Team for recently winning the high school Fed Challenge competition, which tests students' knowledge on the economy and interest rates.

This isn't the first win for the young economic gurus. They have won before in the preliminary competition. The competition was held in Charlotte.

Coached by economics teacher Gene Kikolski, students spend countless hours dissecting interest rates and studying economic policies. The team is modeled after the Federal Open Market Committee, which determines how much consumers and businesses pay for loans.

Kikolski started the team in 1998.

The Federal Reserve, which sponsors the competition, is made up of 12 district reserve banks along with the Board of Governors that make up the Federal Reserve System.

Millbrook is now headed to Virginia to compete against teams from Richmond and Baltimore on May 1.

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Kudos to the students at Raleigh Latin School, who have earned top honors on the National Latin Exam.

More than 134,000 students take the exam.

Three Raleigh Latin students--eighth grader Dean Adema and freshmen Angela Taylor and Jonathan Wendt -- only missed one question on the exam.

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Head out to Lynn Road Elementary School, 1601 Lynn Road, Saturday for the school's spring festival.

The festival will include a cakewalk, carnival games, food and more.

For more information, call 870-4074.