Edu News| February 4, 2013
Irvine School Wins Regional Science Bowl at JPL
University High School of Irvine buzzed their way to victory on
Saturday, Feb. 2, in the Los Angeles regional round of the National
Science Bowl competition at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena,
Calif. Battling through questions about Saturn's moon Mimas,
parallel-plate capacitors and hydrogen bonding in organic molecules,
University earned 80 points in the final match against the second place
team, Arcadia High School, which scored 24 points.
Santa Monica
High School placed third out of the 24 teams from Los Angeles, Orange
and Santa Barbara counties that gathered at JPL on Feb. 2. The
sportsmanship award went to Maranatha High School of Pasadena for their
exceptional graciousness with other teams and competition officials,
spirit of fair play and enthusiasm for science.
Coordinated by the Department of Energy, the National Science Bowl
quizzes students on biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and Earth
and space sciences. The competition, which attracts about 20,000 middle
and high school students nationwide, is designed to inspire students to
pursue a career in science or math. The JPL regional high school
competition has been in existence for 21 years.
The main prize
for the winners of the regional competition is an all-expense-paid trip
to Washington, D.C., to compete in the National Science Bowl on April 25
to 29, 2013. Other prizes for University High School included a trophy,
medals, winner's banner, a NASA backpack, calendars with space images
and a toy version of NASA's Mars Curiosity rover. The main prize for the
sportsmanship award winners is a trip to Catalina Island to visit the
Wrigley Marine Science Center, part of USC's Wrigley Institute for
Environmental Studies.
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