Local winners from the fifth grade were Jasmine Gengerke, third place; Tiarra DeHoet, second place; and Kenzie McInerney, first place.

Jon Wendel is pictured with Groton's fifth grade state placer, Kenzie McInerney, fifth grade, third place.

Pictured left to right are Kyleigh Englund, second grade, second place; Lane Tietz, second grade, third place; Allyssa Locke, fourth grade, third place; Brooke Gengerke, third grade, third place; Caleb Hanten, third grade, first place; and Kaleb Antonson, third grade, second place; not pictured here but in the photo above is Kenzie McInerney, fifth grade, third place. Presenting the award is Jon Wendel, Service Forester from Watertown.