Winners announced in Wisconsin regional DOE National Science Bowl®
| Published: 02/02/2009 |
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Rockford Auburn High School of Rockford, Ill. won the Wisconsin regional championship in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Science Bowl® for high school students held January 24 at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). The winning team, comprised of Ian Douglass, Zahed Haseeb, Jordan Hoffmann, Sivia Sundaram, Christian Zarnke and Coach Jim Parker, advances to Washington, DC, to compete against 67 other regional winners at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Science Bowl® from April 30 to May 5.
Second place went to Aakash Bavishi, Abdul Moid Khan, Abdul Sami Khan, Christina Oda, Suman Sanyal and Coach Brian Harlan from Hoffman Estates High School in Hoffman Estates, Ill. Marshfield High School of Marshfield, Wis. finished in third place. Seth Berger, Alex Jensen, Elisa Prebble, Parijat Sharma and Coach Paul Herder were on team.
Twenty teams of high school science and math students from Wisconsin and Northern Illinois competed. Many of these teams spent months preparing for the National Science Bowl's regional competition, which features head-to-head competition in a fast-paced question and answer format similar to Jeopardy. The students were quizzed on all science disciplines including biology, chemistry, earth science, physics and astronomy, as well as math. Most questions are so challenging many scientists would have trouble finding an answer.
In 2009, more than 13,000 high school sophomores, juniors and seniors from 1,800 schools in 42 states will compete. Since 1991, more than 130,000 students and teachers have participated in the event.