For the third straight year, a team of students from Van Antwerp Middle School captured the regional title in the Middle School Science Bowl and will advance to the national competition in June.
On Saturday, March 3, Van Antwerp’s team was among 10 middle school teams from across upstate New York vying for the regional championship at the GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna. The Science Bowl tests the academic knowledge of middle school teams during a fast-paced Jeopardy-style competition answering questions in the categories of science and math. Student teams also face off in a hydrogen fuel cell car competition, which provides “hands-on” science and engineering experience and challenges students to design, build and race model cars.
Science teacher and coach Connie Soron said the Van Antwerp team won the fuel cell car races and earned perfect scores on the fuel cell quizzes. “They were also successful in every round of the academic competition,” she added.
As regional champions, the VA team comprised of the following four students, plus one alternate and coach, will travel to the national competition in Denver: Thomas Mason (captain), Michael Barnes, Gabriel Holodak, Nicholas Wolfe, and Jaclyn Dobies (alternate). Congratulations also to team members Alison Snyder and Jason Xu who participated in designing, building and racing the hydrogen fuel cell car at the regional competition.
The U.S. Department of Energy sponsors the National Science Bowl for student teams at both the middle and high school levels. The academic competition challenges students to learn more about math and science and raises awareness about careers in those fields.

(March 2007)

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