Science Bowl

Science Bowl is a fast paced quiz-show style competition where students try to be the first to buzz in to answer science and math questions. Questions are from all areas of science - earth science, physical science, general science, and life science. The event is sponsored by Bonneville Power Adminstration and is held at the University of Portland.

ExCEL placed 2nd place in the Oregon/Western Washington Regional Middle School Science Bowl on January 27th. Team members Annika Horlings, Brita Horlings, Robbin Goss, Kirben Smoody, and Trisha Williams went through 12 rounds of competition before emerging as 2nd place winners. Fifty-two teams from around the Northwest participated. Kirben Smoody also earned an "All-Star" award for being one of the top answering students of the day.

ExCEL sent two teams to the middle school competition. The ExCEL-2 team did very well also, making it to the afternoon double elimination rounds. Teams members were: Genny Billington, Noah Collins, Rebecca Sokolowski, Wilven Smoody, and Hayley Williams.

Some of Our History:

ExCEL began participating in 2003 in the Middle School Science Bowl. Their first year we had a team take 1st place at the Regional competition. The team went undefeated through a long day of answering science and math questions. Team members Kelvin Crockford, Jeremy VanGelder, James Williams, and Kirsten Williams represented Oregon/Washington at the National competition in Golden, Colorado. They tied for 5th place in the nation in both the solar car competition and in the academic competition.