WEFM Radio to host annual Youth Reading Challenge

WEFM Radio will, this year, hold its third annual Youth Summer Reading Challenge, which seeks to build more confident readers by exposing them to training in fluency, confidence, voice and diction.

The reading challenge, which is open to young people aged 13 to 15, is also designed to expose teens to careers in the media.{{more}}

The finalists in the challenge will all compete by reading the news LIVE on air on WEFM 99.9 in August.

Registration is currently open and interested students, parents and guardians can obtain forms at WEFM’s Kingstown or Questelles office.

The deadline for submitting completed registration forms is Wednesday, July 27, 2016.

Applicants are asked to submit a short essay, along with their registration forms, on a given topic. Applicants whose forms have been submitted to WEFM will be recorded reading 30 seconds of any appropriate material, which will be judged, along with their essays, to select five finalists.

The five finalists will then be called in for one week of broadcast training at WEFM’s studios in Questelles, from August 8 to 12, 2016.

They will then compete by reading the 12:15 p.m. and 3 p.m. newscasts on WEFM on Monday, August 15, 2016.

The best reader, as decided by the judges, will emerge as the overall winner of the challenge. The five finalists will each receive a backpack with school supplies.

The winner will receive a Tablet, compliments Courts SVG Ltd, a cash prize and a trophy. The first and second runners-up will receive smart phones.

The 2015 winner was Lynallia Isaacs of Vermont, a student of the Thomas Saunders Secondary School. The 2014 winner was Neleshia Robertson of Layou, a former student of the St Joseph’s Convent Kingstown.