Last Saturday was our first time competing in Texas Quiz bowl Alliance. This is a quiz bowl competition encompassing all subjects. There were 32 teams competing and the top 8 qualified for Nationals which will be in Dallas in May. It was a great day. Beckendorff took two teams one placed 22nd while the other made it into the finals. Our team came in 2nd place overall defeating many challenging teams along the way. We were only 1 of three public schools in the competition. Our school is very proud and I am so happy that our team made Nationals. Now we need to try to qualify the rest of our students. In order to do that we need to go to other regional competitions and the same team needs to compete and qualify again in order for other team members to qualify. This is going to be challenge but I know we can do it.
We have 6th grade teams that will be competing on November 5th and 7/8 grade teams competing on December 10th. If we do not qualify there we have two other chances to do so. This was such a fun experience-I know myself and my students are hooked for life. It is a lot of information to study and practice but in the end, after practicing for three weeks over the summer, we came together and made it our first time out. It is the story of the underdogs coming from behind and winning. We may not have taken 1st but 2nd is just as good for these new comers.
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