Students from Lincoln Middle School won the seventh annual Civics Challenge held recently.

Nearly 50 students from six Alachua County middle schools participated in the event held at the Alachua County administrative offices in Gainesville on April 17.

Lincoln Middle School teacher Patrick Penny coached the winning team.

The six middle schools that competed at the event included Lincoln, Fort Clarke, High Springs, Westwood, Mebane and Kanapaha.

The seventh-grade students, who prepared all school year, faced off in a “Family Feud” style format as they raced to answer questions that ranged from identifying which article of the U.S. Constitution outlines the powers of the legislature to naming the current Supreme Court Justices.

All participants received a Civics Challenge t-shirt and medal, and the winning team received the Civics Challenge Perpetual Plaque with the name of their school engraved on it. The plaque will hang in Lincoln Middle School for the next year.

The event was co-sponsored by the Alachua County Public Schools and the League of Women Voters.