April 23, 2009
103 Teams to Head to DOE's National Science Bowl in Washington, D.C.
High School and Middle School Regional Champions from Around the Country to Compete at National Championship
WASHINGTON, DC– Students from 67 high school teams and 36 middle school teams from across the nation will compete next weekend for championship titles in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Science Bowl in Washington D.C. The National Science Bowl is the nation’s largest academic competition of its kind and the only one sponsored by a federal agency. The National Finals will be held from May 2 through May 4.
Each of the participating teams emerged from a regional competition to earn an all-expense-paid trip to the event. The participating teams represent 42 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. More than 15,000 high school students and 6,000 middle school students participated in this year’s regional competitions.
Regional winners have spent months preparing for the contest, which features head-to-head competition in a question-and-answer format similar to Jeopardy. The students will be quizzed on all science disciplines including biology, chemistry, earth science, physics and astronomy, as well as math. Below is a sample question from a previous year’s high school competition:
ASTRONOMY: In a red giant, at about 100 million degrees, the helium nuclei will fuse to form more of this element than any other. ANSWER: CARBON
This is the first year that the DOE’s National Science Bowl will hold the middle school and high school competitions simultaneously. The middle school question-and-answer competition begins Saturday, May 2 at 9:30 a.m. at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, MD. The high school teams will compete solving hands-on science experiments on Saturday afternoon, May 2. The high school question-and-answer competition begins Sunday, May 3 at 11:15 a.m. The championship rounds will be held Monday, May 4 from 10:00 am to 12:30 p.m. at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Middle school teams will also compete in a day-long Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car Competition on Sunday, May 3, at the Bethesda Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, MD. Additional details will be announced in the coming days.
The 16 high school and 16 middle school teams advancing past the first elimination rounds will each return home with $1000 and $500, respectively, for their school science programs. The high school national champion will win an all-expense-paid science research trip to attend the International Science School at the University of Sydney, Australia.
DOE created the National Science Bowl in 1991 to encourage students to excel in mathematics and science and to pursue careers in these fields. DOE supports mathematics and science education to help provide a technically trained and diverse workforce for the nation.
Biographical information about the teams and additional information about DOE’s National Science Bowl are available on the National Science Bowl website.
The list of middle school and high school teams follows.
2009 Department of Energy National Science Bowl Regional Champions
Alabama Auburn Middle - Auburn Junior High School High - Auburn High School
Arizona Phoenix Middle - Madison Park School High - Brophy College Preparatory
Arkansas Fort Smith Middle - Ramsey Junior High School
Huntsville High - Huntsville High School
California Albany High - Albany High School
Cupertino High - Homestead High School
Fremont Middle - Hopkins Junior High School High - Mission San Jose High School
Fresno Middle - Edison Computech 7-8
Goleta High - Dos Pueblos High School
La Jolla Middle - The Preuss School UCSD High - La Jolla High School
Los Angeles Middle - Florence Nightingale Middle School
Lodi High - Tokay High School
North Hollywood High - North Hollywood High School
Palo Cedro High - Foothill High School
Sacramento High - Mira Loma High School
Santa Monica High - Santa Monica High School
Sunnyvale Middle - Challenger School
Colorado Englewood High - Cherry Creek High School
Fort Collins High - Ridgeview Classical Schools
Connecticut Hamden High - Hamden High School
District of Columbia High - Woodrow Wilson Senior High School
Florida Gainsville Middle - Lincoln Middle School
Plant City High - Durant High School
Weston High - Cypress Bay High School
Georgia Lilburn High - Parkview High School
Hawaii Honolulu High - Punahou School
Idaho Boise High - Treasure Valley Math and Science Center
Coeur d’Alene High - Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy
Grangeville High - Grangeville High School
Illinois Chicago High - Benito Juarez Academy
Naperville High - Naperville North High School
River Forest Middle - Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School
Rockford High - Rockford Auburn High School
Indiana Terre Haute Middle - Honey Creek Middle School High - Terre Haute South Vigo High School
Iowa Des Moines High - Central Academy
Dubuque Middle - Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School
Kansas Shawnee High - Mill Valley High School
Kentucky Goshen Middle - North Oldham Middle School
Louisiana Lafayette High - Lafayette High School
Maryland Silver Spring Middle - Takoma Park Middle School, Silver Spring High - Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring
Massachusetts Lexington Middle - Jonas Clarke Middle School High - Lexington High School
Michigan Detroit High - Renaissance High School
Saginaw Middle - Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy
Minnesota St. Paul High - St. Paul Central High School
Springfield Middle - Springfield Public Schools
Mississippi Clinton Middle - Clinton Junior High School
Columbus High - Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
Missouri Kansas City High - Pembroke Hill School
Montana Billings Middle - Will James Middle School
Helena High - Helena High School
Nebraska Lincoln Middle - Lux Middle School
Omaha High - Creighton Preparatory School
Nevada Las Vegas Middle - Faith Lutheran Jr/Sr High School High - The Meadows School
New Hampshire Exeter High - Phillips Exeter Academy
New Jersey Plainsboro High - West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North
Princeton Junction Middle - Thomas Grover Middle School
New Mexico Albuquerque Middle - Albuquerque Academy High - Albuquerque Academy
Las Cruces Middle - Sierra Middle School High - Oñate High School
New York Brooklyn High - Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn
Delmar High - Bethlehem Central High School, Delmar
East Setauket High - Ward Melville High School, East Setauket
Niskayuna Middle - Van Antwerp Middle School, Niskayuna
Stony Brook Middle - Robert Cushman Murphy Junior High School, Stony Brook
Syracuse High - Syracuse University STEP, Syracuse
Tonawanda Middle - St. Christopher School, Tonawanda
North Carolina Raleigh High - William G. Enloe High School
North Dakota Dickinson High - Dickinson High School
Ohio Centerville High - Centerville High School
Oregon Beaverton Middle - Summa Academy South
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Middle - Carson Middle School High - Pittsburgh Taylor Allderdice High School
Puerto Rico Caguas High - Colegio Catolico Notre Dame High School
South Carolina Roebuck High - Paul Dorman High School
South Dakota Aberdeen High - Aberdeen Central High School
Tennessee Oak Ridge High - Oak Ridge High School
Texas Amarillo Middle - St. Andrew’s Episcopal School High - Randall High School
Austin Middle - Austin Area Homeschoolers High - Austin Area Homeschoolers
Brownsville Middle - Harmony Science Academy
Dallas High - Science and Engineering Magnet
Mercedes High - Science Academy of South Texas
San Antonio Middle - Katherine Stinson Middle School High - Saint Mary’s Hall School
U.S. Virgin Islands Kingshill High - St. Croix Educational Complex
Vermont Woodstock Middle - Woodstock Union Middle School
Virginia Alexandria High - Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Herndon Middle - Northern Virginia Homeschoolers
Washington Pullman Middle - Lincoln Middle School, Pullman
Richland High - Hanford High School
Vancouver High - Mountain View High School
West Virginia Beckley High - Woodrow Wilson High School
Wyoming Gillette High - Campbell County High School
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