In these years, the following schools were new participants one or more times: Fuller JH (Jane Ledbetter), Northwood JH (Glenda Moring), J. A. Fair (Danyell Cummings and Carmelita King), Mills HS (Cindy Holmes and Marsha Pratt), and Oak Grove JH/HS (Manual Twillie, Chad Cummings, and Theodora Johnson), Mann MS (Olympia Smith), Cathedral HS (Tandy Cobb).
Peggy Whitten began a long run with Dunbar students; and Julia Markham (North Little Rock-West) and Jane Ledbetter (Mills) continued theirs at different schools, as Rick Kron was to do at Belwood Elementary in 2006.