Macomb High School Scholastic Bowl team to vie for national honors
With a championship win at the Prairieland Conference Scholastic Bowl, the Scholastic Bowl team from Macomb Senior High School has earned a chance to play on a national stage.
The team will compete in a 143-team national competition: the National Academic Quiz Tournaments' Small School National Championship Tournament, which will begin Friday.Quiz bowl is a competitive, academic, interscholastic activity for teams of four students. 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.Macomb has attended the Small School National Championship Tournament nine times before. Most recently, in 2023, they entered two teams — one of which made the playoffs and finished in 13th place.The team will consist of coach Brian Powell and members Ingrid Jones, Henry Lauer, Celena Mangalaraj, Daksh Patel, Isaak Ratermann, and Tyler Thurman. Thurman, Lauer, and Mangalaraj competed in the 2024 Individual Player National Championship Tournament in Rosemont, Ill.; and Mangalaraj, Patel, and Thurman participated in the 2023 Small School National Championship Tournament in Rosemont.Tournament results will be updated throughout the three days of competition at naqt.com.
This article originally appeared on Pekin Daily Times: Macomb High School Scholastic Bowl team to vie for national honors
