{"id":20371,"date":"2015-03-19T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=20371"},"modified":"2025-01-28T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T02:30:09","slug":"hundreds-compete-in-10th-annual-science-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/03\/hundreds-compete-in-10th-annual-science-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Compete in 10th Annual Science Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best and the brightest high school competitors recently gathered at Laurel Hall for the 10th annual Northeast Science Bowl Super Regional.<\/p>\n

For the third year in a row, UConn had\u00a0the largest regional championship of its kind in the US. More than 600 students on 81 teams from five states came to match wits against each other for a trophy and the chance to compete in the national championship in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

The event was hosted by UConn Engineering, with more than 165 undergraduate engineering student volunteers helping to\u00a0make this a\u00a0very successful event. Kevin McLaughlin, the School of Engineering Diversity and outreach Center Director oversaw the competition.<\/p>\n

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Trophies for the Science Bowl winners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The teams, from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and New Hampshire faced off in a Jeopardy!-style quiz bowl covering a very wide range of\u00a0scientific minutia. A few minutes into the first round, it was clear that this was no competition for mere dabblers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat type of leukocytes, characterized by their CD4 receptors secrete cytokines that activate nearby B and T cells?\u201d was an early question in the first round between teams from Avon, CT and Cheshire, CT. The answer: Helper T Cells.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really competitive \u2013 there\u2019s a lot of knowledge here,\u201d said sophomore Aranav Velaparthi, of the Cheshire team. \u201cIt makes me want to study more.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Avon, which\u00a0won the first round,\u00a0had a deceptively simple\u00a0winning strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a lot of practicing,\u201d said Emily Wert, a junior, who added that this was the first time a lot the team members competed in the Science Bowl. \u201cAnd sometimes there\u2019s beginner\u2019s luck.\u201d<\/p>\n

The all-day competition ended with “The Final Battle of the Civil War”\u00a0 – a showdown between the winners of the two regions. This year, it was hometown favorites E.O. Smith High School\u00a0from Storrs, representing the South Region, and Lexington High School from Massachusetts for the North. It was E.O. Smith High who emerged victorious and took\u00a0home the big trophy. Both teams, though,\u00a0earned their way to compete in the National Science Bowl in the nation\u2019s capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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