LIVERMORE, CALIF. – This Saturday, Sandia National Laboratories California and Las Positas College will host the first of three high school Regional Science Bowls scheduled for the Bay Area. The competition will take place Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Las Positas College campus in Livermore, with 25 teams from 11 local high schools scheduled to compete.
Registration begins at 8 a.m., with round-robin competition scheduled from 9 a.m. – noon. Following lunch and the elimination rounds from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m., an awards ceremony will take place at 4 p.m.
The Science Bowl is a question-and-answer competition with buzzers, judges, and timekeepers for high school teams consisting of five students and one faculty coach. A format of round-robin and modified double elimination will be used in the regional competitions.
A total of 25 local teams will participate. High Schools scheduled to compete include Monte Vista (Danville), Irvington (Fremont), Mission San Jose (Fremont), Granada (Livermore), Livermore (Livermore), Milpitas (Milpitas), Foothill (Pleasanton), Andrew Hill (San Jose), Chinese Christian Schools (San Leandro), California (San Ramon), and Santa Clara (Santa Clara).
Local members of the media are welcome to attend Saturday’s competition. Contact Mike Janes for more information at (925) 294-2447, mejanes@sandia.gov On Saturday, contact Sandia’s Ray Ng at (925) 784-0997.
Additional Science Bowl regional competitions in the Bay Area will take place at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Feb. 7 and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center on Feb. 28. Each winner of a regional competition qualifies to compete in the 19th annual U.S. Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl® from April 30 – May 5, in Washington, D.C. Only those students who competed on the winning regional team are eligible to compete in the National Science Bowl.
For additional information on the DOE’s National Science Bowl, visit http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/nsb/.