High school students in Pennsylvania say they enter contests to showcase their offbeat talents and win scholarship money for college. Amber Ricci, 14, of Shaler, a sophomore at Oakland Catholic High School in Pittsburgh shot marbles and won the $2,000 National Marbles Tournament Scholarship in 2008 and was inducted into its hall of fame, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Sunday. (Story continues below)
"I was trained by my Dad and my Gram. It was years and years of practice," said Ricci, who intends to use her scholarship to study diseases ... (Continue story) |