The WGI Percussion World Championships took place in the Nutter Center as well as the University of Dayton Arena during the weekend of April 18-20, 2013. High school and independent Indoor Percussion Ensembles came from as far as California, Massachusetts and Japan. The Kettering Fairmont High School Percussion Ensemble took 18th place in preliminaries with a score of 83.350 in Scholastic World, shy of the Finals. This is the group’s first season competing in the highest division of WGI.