With its strong finish at Maine Quiz Bowl Alliance Fall Invitational III, the quiz bowl team from Hebron Academy proved itself worthy to play on a national stage. On Friday, April 26, the team is set to represent its school in a 143-team national competition: National Academic Quiz Tournaments’ Small School National Championship Tournament.
Quiz bowl is a competitive, academic, interscholastic activity for teams of four students. Quiz bowl teams use buzzers to answer questions about science, math, history, literature, mythology, geography, social science, current events, sports, and popular culture. The matches feature a blend of individual competition and team collaboration, since no individual player is likely to be an expert in all subject areas. Participation in quiz bowl both reinforces lessons from the classroom and encourages players to develop new intellectual interests.
This will be Hebron Academy’s first time attending the Small School National Championship Tournament.
The SSNCT is the only quiz bowl national championship pitting small schools against each other. It has one division containing non-selective public schools with 500 or fewer students in their top three grades, and another division for other schools with 350 or fewer students in their top three grades. Hebron Academy may face a familiar foe in Rosemont, as Gould Academy (from Bethel) will also be attending.
The team, in the Open Division, will consist of Kate Dilworth, James (Quin) Doyle, Sylvie Gill, Mason Hatfield, Martha Morrill, Vaughn Ross, and Kali Salazar-Perez. The team will be coached by Joshua Kangas.
Tournament results will be updated throughout the three days of competition at naqt.com/go/stats/14701.
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