Quiz Bowl at EMS
By: Jamie
Ephrata Middle School has a Quiz Bowl team. Quiz Bowl is a knowledge competition with 17 students in it ranging from 6th to 8th grade. Mr. Miller and Mrs. DeRise decided which students would be on the team by holding tryouts where students would take a practice test and if they scored well on it, they got in. With this year being different, Quiz Bowl will be mostly virtual. For example, the competitions with other schools will now have the teams online all signed into an online buzzer and whoever uses it to buzz in first gets to answer the question. At practices, students sit around a table with the buzzer open and get asked questions that are about the world and other different subjects. Students prepare for those different types of questions by reading various topics, staying caught up on the news, and they can use Quizlet as a good resource. They do have a lot of practice matches to make sure that students are as prepared as they can be.
Ephrata Middle School has a Quiz Bowl team. Quiz Bowl is a knowledge competition with 17 students in it ranging from 6th to 8th grade. Mr. Miller and Mrs. DeRise decided which students would be on the team by holding tryouts where students would take a practice test and if they scored well on it, they got in. With this year being different, Quiz Bowl will be mostly virtual. For example, the competitions with other schools will now have the teams online all signed into an online buzzer and whoever uses it to buzz in first gets to answer the question. At practices, students sit around a table with the buzzer open and get asked questions that are about the world and other different subjects. Students prepare for those different types of questions by reading various topics, staying caught up on the news, and they can use Quizlet as a good resource. They do have a lot of practice matches to make sure that students are as prepared as they can be.