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South Lawrence East School Hosts Parent Night
Read the Eagle Tribune's account of Parent Night
The 21st Academic Bowl season came to an exciting finish with the annual Parent Night/Awards Night at South Lawrence East School in Lawrence on Tuesday, April 10. Parents were treated to a fun evening featuring team displays and raffle items in the gymnasium followed by exhibition matches in the auditorium. All the students who attended were able to play in either the annual "Red vs. Orange" student match or in the "Parent vs. Student" match. Activities included buzzer rounds, scrabble multiplication, word building and local geography "walk-on" activities, tower building, discerning the date of a front page from the New York Times where all the dates had been whited out, and assembling a magnetic map of northeastern Massachusetts.
In the end, the Red team had prevailed over the Orange team, the Students had once again beaten the Parents, the South Lawrence East-West Middle Prime were declared the season's Champions, the Arlington-St. Augustine Double A's were awarded second place and the Sportsmanship Trophy, and the Frost-Timony Snow Dragons had won the Spirit Award.
The final event of the Academic Bowl will be a field trip on June 1. Many thanks to the Academic Bowl Parent Advisory Committee and the Academic Bowl advisors for all their help in making the evening and the season a memorable one.
The season's DVD and team pictures will be distributed in early June. Orders for these items will be received until early May. 4/18/07
Read Town Crossing's account of match 18 played at North Andover Middle School.
8th Annual Kiwanis Youth Summit a Big Success
Continuing the partnership started in 2000, the Academic Bowl and the Greater Lawrence Kiwanis Club collaborated to produce a special event involving 18 8th graders -- one from each school in the Academic Bowl. This year's topic was "Goals, Leadership and Self-Esteem." Listen to the students tell you what they learned. more... 3/9/07
Academic Bowl PAC busy planning Parent Night, needs more representation
The Academic PAC is busy planning Parent Night, April 10, to which all the students and their parents are invited. At this point we have nine schools represented but still need a parent from the following schools who will work with the advisor to contact as many of the other parents at your school to help get the word out. Georgetown, Arlington, Bruce, Guilmette, Leonard, Oliver, Parthum, South Lawrence East, Wetherbee. If you are able to play this role, please contact us for details. Other ways you can help... 3/2/07
AUDIO FILE: Audience member figures out difficult math question
At the February 27th match at Tenney Grammar School a very difficult math question was asked in the 4th round: "How much is 1/x plus 1/y ?" After several tries by all three teams, no one could get it. When the Quizmaster asked if anyone in the audience knew the answer, a student from Georgetown got it right. After the match the Quizmaster interviewed the student to hear how she figured out the solution. Hear her explanation. 2/27/07
Tenney students know how to have fun
Tenney Academic Bowl students keep their spirits up on the Academic Bowl bus trips with a wide repertoire of "repeat after me songs." Not only do all these students love to sing, they made their own "Dream Team" T-shirts, as well. Hear their opening act on the bus. 2/27/07
Postcards from China and India
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Students: Identify the landmarks and learn the information in the captions from selected postcards from China and India for matches 13-18. - 2/8/07 |
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Exhibition Match Big Success
Forty parents came to the GLEC "Lifeways Building" on Monday night, January 29, to watch a special Academic Bowl exhibition match between 23 students representing ten of the eighteen schools in the tournament. The evening match was organized by the Academic Bowl Parent Committee to give working parents a chance to see their children in action in the Academic Bowl, an in-school activity. The students completed in hands-on activities as their parents watched and then finished off the evening with a buzzer round.
The hands-on activities included a very difficult artist-observer problem, a 15 letter scrabble multiplication problem (see below), and an initiative which required making a contraption that could be guided and propelled to knock down bottles of different sizes placed at varying distances. The artists and the observers were then asked to speak about the strategies they used and challenges they faced in trying to draw a picture "out of a thousand words," so to speak. The competition was very close and exciting.
When the evening was over, it was the Orange Team that prevailed, scoring 19 points, to Blue's 18 and Red's 17. Each team had players from several schools. The evening concluded with a group photo and t-shirts for all the players. Many parents were impressed with the outstanding performance and teamwork of the students and several new parents volunteered to join the Academic Bowl Parent Committee, which did such a wonderful job in producing the event. Parent representatives are still needed from some schools. Photos of the match will be in the Academic Bowl Yearbook and will be sent to the parents of the participants and to local newspapers.- 1/30/07
1/29/07 Exhibition Match Scrabble Multiplication: 15 letters: "AFGHANISTANIRAQ" |
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The Blue Team's Solution was the highest with 11,664 points. |
The Orange Team's Solution |
The Red Team's Solution |
Evening Exhibition Match January 29 at 7 p.m. Students: If you want to be involved in this match please contact your advisor for the details. We are looking for 3 students from each school who will bring their parents to watch them in action. This event is being created for those parents who have daytime commitments which prevent them from seeing a regular match. Students will play on mixed teams.
Students: Click on "History of Communities and Schools" to read two new PDF files on Academic Bowl schools. There will be many questions from these guides in matches 7-12. -1/12/07
Academic Bowl Team Banners
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| Parthum-Tenney Dream Team 1/25/07 | Leonard-North Andover Knight Lions 1/25/07 |
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| West Middle-South Lawrence East Middle West-East Prime (SLE version) 1/25/07 | West Middle-South Lawrence East Middle West-East Prime (West version) |
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| Guilmette -Doherty Lawton Warriors (Doherty version) 12/8/06 | Guilmette -Doherty Lawton Warriors (Guilmette version) 12/8/06 |
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| Oliver-CGS "Henry K. and the Lockdowns" 1/12/07 | Wetherbee-WoodHill WoodBees 1/24/07 |
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| Bruce-Georgetown Royal Owls (Bruce version) 1/24/07 | Bruce-Georgetown Royal Owls (Georgetown version) 1/24/07 |
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| Arlington - St. Augustine AA's (Arlington version) 2/6/07 | |
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| Frost-Timony Snow Dragons (Timony version) 2/27/07 | Frost-Timony Snow Dragons (Frost version) 2/27/07 |
Evening Exhibition Match January 29 at 7 p.m. Students: If you want to be involved in this match please contact your advisor for the details. We are looking for 3 students from each school who will bring their parents to watch them in action. This event is being created for those parents who have daytime commitments which prevent them from seeing a regular match. Students will play on mixed teams. More...
Financial Contributions Received The TD Banknorth Charitable Foundation and the Sean McDonough Foundation have just made major contributions to the Academic Bowl. Please join us in thanking them. More... 1/3/07
Students: See the maps and landmarks of Greater Lawrence. There will be several questions on this information in matches 13-18. Don't forget to look at the community and school study guides and the content outline. (12/23/06)
Parents: Special Evening Exhibition Match involving all schools on January 29 more... (12/12/06)
To see the results of the matches click on the Match Results & Standings Tab to your left.
Students Find Solutions to the *MIDDLE EAST Problem
Top Scrabble Multiplication Solutions from matches 7, 8 and 9
*given the letters M I D D L E E A S T and one blank
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| Match 7: Guilmette-Doherty Squad 3 (solution pictured above) tied with Guilmette Doherty Squad 1 with 1426 Points. | Match 8: Oliver-CGS Squad 4 (solution pictured above) tied with Wetherbee-Wood Hill with 1425 points. | Match 9: Parthum Tenney Squad 4 (solution pictured above) tied with five other squads with 1426 points. |
Observer-Artist Activity
In this activity, the artist had to draw a picture based solely on the words of the observer, who had to look at the picture, remember it, and then describe it to the artist. The observer was given about seven or eight looks at the original. Pictured below are the best renderings from each match.
Top Observer-Artist drawings from matches 7, 8 and 9
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| Original Picture Seen only by the observer. | Match 7: Guilmette-Doherty Squad 1 |
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| Match 8: Oliver-CGS Squad 2 | Match 9: Leonard-NAMS Squad 3 |
Top Observer-Artist drawings from matches 7, 8 and 9
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| Original picture seen only by the observer. | Match 7: Guilmette-Doherty Squad 1 |
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| Match 8: Wetherbee-Wood Hill Squad 3 (solution pictured above) tied with Wetherbee-Wood Hill Squad 4. | Match 9: Leonard-NAMS Squad 3. |
Top Scrabble Multiplication Solutions from Each Team: Matches 1, 2 and 3
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| Arlington-St. Augustines AA ["Double A's] Squad 3: 648 pts. | Bruce-Georgetown Royal Owls Squad 1: 356 pts. | So. Law. East- West Middle Prime Squad 3: 1069 pts. |
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| Guilmette-Doherty Lawtown Warriors Squad 2: 475 pts. | Oliver-CGS Henry K and the Lockdowns Squad 4: 475 pts. | Parthum-Tenney Dream Team Squad 4: 1069 pts. |
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| Frost-Timony Snow Dragons Squad 1: 356 pts. | Wetherbee-Wood Hill Wood Beez Squad 3: 713 pts. | Leonard-North Andover Knight Lions Squad 1: 1069 pts. |
Practice Problem: Best score so far. See "Question Formats" to enter
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| Wood Hill students sent in this solution to the practice problem on the website. Can anyone beat their 3,240 points? |
PAC Meets, Plans Special Parent Event for Jan. 29
The Parent Advisory Committee met on Monday, December 4 and planned a special parent event for Monday, January 29 at 7 p.m. More information soon.
Practice Matches: November 28 - December 1
Teammates meet, form squads, practice questions, pick team name, design banners
- Frost-Timony Snow Dragons
- Parthum-Tenney Dream Team
- Arlington-St. Augustines AA ["Double A's]
- South Lawrence East- West Middle Prime
- Bruce-Georgetown Royal Owls
- Wetherbee-Wood Hill Wood Beez
- Leonard-North Andover Knight Lions
- Guilmette-Doherty Lawtown Warriors
- Oliver-CGS Henry K and the Lockdowns
Practice Materials on Website
Students: Click on the "Question Formats" tab to your left and find reference materials, practice questions, and lots of information about how to prepare for matches. 11/21/06
Parent Meeting
The first parent advisory committee meeting was held on Monday, November 20 at GLEC. Parents from Timony, CGS, Frost and Wood Hill attended. For more information and a complete schedule of the meetings, click on the "Parents: AcPAC" tab to your left. We need representation from all 18 schools at our next meeting, Monday, December 4, 2006. 11/21/06
Changes in Academic Bowl Schedule
Advisors, parents, students: Please check the schedule frequently to make sure your information is up to date.
Advisors Plan Academic Bowl Season
18 Schools Participating - Most Ever
Advisors representing 18 middle schools met yesterday to plan the tournament and put together the initial schedule of the Academic Bowl's 21st season. Practice matches will begin in the week after Thanksgiving. Sixteen of the eighteen schools will host a match. Regular matches start in December and continue until the middle of March.
Some of the items of note this year include a simplified scoring system, using the study guides developed in the last two years to learn more about our schools and communities, and a focus on the geography, history and culture of the Middle East. A content outline shows a rough outline of topics that will be covered. Each school will be developing questions and resources (links to authoritative information) on one of the countries in the Middle East.
Rosters of 7th and 8th graders and names of parent volunteers for the Academic Bowl PAC are due to the quizmaster by November 9. The next advisor planning meeting is Wednesday, November 15 at 3:15 p.m. and the first AcPAC Meeting is Monday, November 20. Each school should be represented by at least one parent at the meeting. -10/20/06
National Grid Supports Academic Bowl
We have received a check from the National Grid, the power company, in support of the Academic Bowl's 2006-2007 season. Thank you National Grid! -9/22/06
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