Wright State media highlights, March 13–21

The Big Hoopla STEM Challenge, Match Day and Wright State’s Theatre’s “Alice by Heart” garnered local media coverage for Wright State this week.

Dayton Daily News: STEM Challenge brings 1,500 kids to Wright State campus
Students who participated in the Big Hoopla STEM Challenge could win full in-state tuition scholarships.

WDTN-TV: Wright State hosts the Big Hoopla 4 Miler
Wright State alumnus Austin Szekacs won the annual four-mile race that kicked off the Big Hoopla’s First Four events.

ABC22: 12 local students awarded scholarships to Wright State
Students who won full in-state tuition scholarships to Wright State were recognized during the NCAA First Four games.

Dayton Daily News: Match Day at Wright State’s Boonshoft School of Medicine: Nearly 120 new doctors find out residency placements
“You will never forget opening that envelope,” Raj Mitra, dean of the Boonshoft School of Medicine, told 119 future doctors on Match Day.

“Good Day Dayton”: Wright State Theatre presents ‘Alice by Heart’ from March 20 to 30
Cate Lightbody, a senior musical theatre major, and Aidan Fracker, a senior acting major, preview the bittersweet coming-of-age musical “Alice by Heart.”

Dayton Daily News: ‘I need to love myself:’ Panel spotlights mental health at Wright State
Panelists brought together by the nonprofit Project Blackbird used their unique backgrounds and stories to spark conversations normalizing talking about mental health during an event at Wright State.

WHIO-TV: ‘It’s exhilarating;’ 8th grader headed to D.C. after winning Wright State’s Regional Spelling Bee
Centerville student Aurora Spisak won the Wright State Regional Spelling Bee for the second year in a row, qualifying for the Scripps National Spelling Bee.