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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Wood Hill students excel at Academic Bowl

by Lekhya Sathi

Thursday March 12 was the last Academic Bowl meet for the 2014-2015 school year. This year the Wood Hill team has won four of the five meets. The team from Wood Hill, made up of nineteen selected students from sixth, seventh and eighth grade competed with middle schools from Andover and other neighboring cities, such as Methuen, Lawrence, and North Andover.

Each Academic Bowl competition is divided into two parts. The first challenge is to as a team, simultaneously complete a fill-in-the-blank worksheet, followed by a building challenge, and a scrabble challenge in a given amount of time. After this is the buzzer round, which is played jeopardy style, with the teams being asked questions and having to press the buzzer to answer. 

In an interview right before the final meet, eight graders Nicole Papageorgiou and Allyson Care said the Academic Bowl is a really fun experience.
Each academic bowl competition is divided into two parts. The first challenge is to as a team, simultaneously complete a fill in the blank worksheet, a building challenge, and a scrabble challenge in a given amount of time. After this is the buzzer round, which is played jeopardy style, with the teams being asked questions and having to press the buzzer to answer. 
In an interview right before the final meet, Nicole Papageorgiou and Allyson Care, two eighth graders who participate in this said the Academic Bowl is a really fun experience. This year, the Wood Hill team has won 4 of the 5 meets which is really good.