High school memory champs.

PositionMind Games - Sophia Hu of Hershey High School, Pennsylvania - Brief article

Remember this name: Hershey High School. The Hershey, Pennsylvania, school's memory team was just crowned the winner for the fourth time at the USA Memory Championships, an annual competition for recall wizards of words, photos, and numbers. The team's secret: intense training. The 15 people on the squad--who admit they're the butt of a lot of jokes--meet weekly with coach Colette Silvestri, memorize all they can in 15-minute stretches, then spill it out, trying, for example, to match dozens of names to photos of strangers. Sophia Hu...

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