HUNTINGTON -- RESA II held the Academic Games Tournament at the Huntington Civic Center and Wayne County Schools had five students qualify for the National Tournament.

Wayne, Mason, Lincoln, Logan and Mingo Counties brought a total of 140 students to participate in the games.

Here are the students who received prizes from Wayne County:

Emily Fleming, Spring Valley High School

Taylor Spry, Fort Gay Elementary

Carly Christian, C-K Middle

Jared Mounts, Buffalo Middle

Erin Wroblewski, Vinson Middle.

The students participated in five games: Equations (Math); LinguiSHTIK (Language Arts); Mr. Presidents (Social Studies); Current Events (Social Studies) and World War I (Social Studies).

The games were played throughout the day and challenged students in various academic challenges. For additional information, go to www.waynegiftedprogram.com or www.academicgames.org.

Red Dawson and Terry Smith from RESA II opened the games Friday. The awards ceremony was presented by Eddy Pendarvis, the director of gifted education at Marshall University.

The national tournament will be April 20-23 in Wheeling. The tournament moves to different states each year, and this is West Virginia's year to host.