Sho Stern, Jerry Pua, Melissa Malzkuhn, and Jesse Sanders, representing California School for the Deaf-Fremont (CSDF), proclaim their first place finish first in last year's National Academic Superbowl, sponsored by Gallaudet University. Teams of deaf students from around the United States competed in the bowl. Broadcast live by satellite to 181 sites, students back at CSDF watched and cheered as their schoolmates answered their way to victory.

Maryland School for the Deaf was runner up in the contest. Newton North High, from Newtonsville, Massachusetts, placed third; Missouri School for the Deaf placed fourth; and Alabama School for the Deaf placed fifth in the second annual National Academic Bowl.

Students raced to answer questions from nine categories, including history, language, geography, Deaf studies, math, and science. Questions included naming the country that has the highest waterfall in the world (Venezuela) to solving the problem

to naming the common name for acetyl salicylic acid (aspirin!).

Did you know the answers to these questions! Well, team up with other deaf students and sign up for this year's National Academic Bowl! The National contest will be held again in spring.

For more information, contact: Bernie Palmer, National Deaf Academic Superbowl, Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Ave. NE, Washington, DC, 20002-3695, Bernie.Palmer@mail.gallaudet.edu.

Photo courtesy of California School for the Deaf-Fremont

General comments may be sent to: Ken.Kurlychek@gallaudet.edu
Last modified November 10, 1998
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