gurc-midwest fall newsletter 2012
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Information about the Academic Bowl at Gallaudet UniversityTRANSCRIPT
Contact Information
700 Logan College Road, Carterville, Illinois 62918 www.jalc.edu/gurc
2013 Competition Timeline
Registration Day- Tuesday, October 30th at 6:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time)
Last Day to register a team- Friday, November 30th
Registration Forms and Team Fee due- Friday, December 14th
Final team roster and photo due- Friday, January 11th
Preliminary Pools drawing- Wednesday, January 16th at 2:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time)
Travel information due- Friday, February 1st.
What is the Academic Bowl? Gallaudet University established the
Academic Bowl in 1997. The competition consists of a question and answer game of
general knowledge and quick recall. Questions are drawn from the following
categories: history and government; language and literature; Science and
technology; geography; mathematics; the arts; deaf studies; current events; and pop
culture, leisure, and sports.
Sheri S. Cook, Director Misti Harrison, Coordinator Office C202A
700 Logan College Road
Carterville, IL 62918
VP: 618.565.0055
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Office C202B
700 Logan College Road
Carterville, IL 62918
VP: 618.565.0054
Gallaudet University Regional Center- Midwest at John A. Logan College
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The Director’s Corner by Sheri Cook
Greetings! For the past two years, I have been fortunate to be involved with the High School Academic Bowl competition at Gallaudet University. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting many coaches, players, parents, and volunteers from the Midwest region and other regions as well. I witnessed teams from residential, day and mainstreamed schools come together and compete with great interest and enthusiasm. I was deeply impressed with the players’ respect for their opponents and their gracious behavior when winning or losing a match. If you are a teacher or a parent of a high school deaf or hard of hearing child, I encourage you to earnestly think about starting an Academic Bowl Team. If your school does not have enough students to establish its own Academic Bowl team, you may gather students from two or more schools within a 25-mile radius of each other to create a team. Your school may petition in writing for special consideration to include a larger radius. Other possibilities are for a mainstreamed or home-schooled student to join the team of a local school or program for the deaf. There are many advantages your students will reap when joining an Academic Bowl team. They will learn to work together and expand their capacity for responsibility. They will benefit from studying broad range of academic subjects and increase their study and memorization skills. Students will have a tremendous opportunity to meet new people and make life-long friends. I urge you to contact me at [email protected] if you need assistance with launching a new team. If you already have a team and need your team players to practice competing with other teams before the next Gallaudet meet (March 8-12, 2013), please contact me as well. Please check out Gallaudet’s Academic Bowl website at http://www.gallaudet.edu/academic_bowl.html for more information. I certainly look forward to going to Gallaudet next spring for the 2013 Academic Bowl competition. I will be rooting for all the Midwest teams and I hope to see you there! Have a wonderful new school year! Sincerely,
Sheri Cook
Sheri Cook with a parent of a student who
competed in the 2012 Academic Bowl
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Frequently Asked Questions
By Sheri S. Cook 1. What is the Academic Bowl?
Quiz tournaments, in which teams of high school students compete against each other in local, regional and national events, is popular among high schools and colleges throughout the country. The Gallaudet University Academic Bowl competition consists of a question and answer game of general knowledge and quick recall. Questions are drawn from the following categories: Social Studies; Language and literature; Science and Technology; Mathematics; The Arts; Deaf Studies; Current Events; Potpourri; Pop Culture; Leisure and Sports.
2. When and why was it established?
Gallaudet University established its first National Academic Bowl in 1997 with the goal of promoting academic competition among school teams, and to foster academic excellence and achievement among deaf and hard of hearing students across the country.
3. What is the format of the Academic Bowl competition?
The National Academic Bowl opens with Preliminary competition on Saturday and Sunday. Eighty teams will be divided into 8 pools of 10 teams each. The 10 teams in each pool will face each other in round
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Frequently Asked Questions (continued)
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questions and 12 bonus questions. The first
player on either team to buzz in gets to
answer.
Round Two will also consist of 12 questions.
Players will take turns answering the
questions with no communication amongst
teams allowed.
The Final Round consists of 10 questions
relating to one category and usually one
topic. Teams are given two minutes to
discuss and record their answer.
During the Playoff matches, the number of
questions in Round One and Round Two
goes up to 12 to 16. During the
Championship match, the number of
questions in Rounds One and Two goes up
to 20. The number of questions in the Final
Round for the Championship match also
goes up to 15. More Details shared in the
2013 Rules and Guidelines manual.
More questions/answers are located on
www.gallaudet.edu/academic_bowl/frequ
ently_asked_questions_(Faq).html.
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Robin matches. The top 16 teams from the
previous year’s National competition will be
seeded 1 through 16 and placed into the
pools.
All 80 teams will be seeded into an 80-team
tournament bracket. The first round will
consist of 48 teams (teams seeded 1st
through 6th in all pools) and the surviving 16
teams from the first round.
The playoff bracket will then go from 64
teams in the 2nd round to 32 teams in the 3rd
round, then 32 teams in the 3rd round to 16
teams in the 4th round, then 16 teams in the
4th round to 8 teams in the Quarterfinals.
The winning teams in the Semifinals matches
will advance to the Championship match.
The losing team will play in the 3rd place
match. Both the 3rd place and
Championship matches will be shown live on
Gallaudet’s website.
4. What will an Academic Bowl match look like?
The Preliminary matches will have three
rounds. Round One will consist of 12 toss-up
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