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02/07/2008: "Knowledge Bowl - 2008"

The results are in, and the three year running champs of knowledge, the mighty Rotary Club, has fallen.



This year the winner of the San Juan Public Schools Foundation Knowledge Bowl 2008 is the 11th & 12th grader team of Kate Fyrquist; Kara Dunn; Otto Schmidt; Cody Price; Theo Pratt and Angela Gossom; who won with a grand total of 86 points.

The teams consisting of 8th grade students, a 9th and 10 grade team, and a 11th and 12th grade team going head to head with four local community service groups: Kiwanis, Soroptomists, Lions, and Rotary Club. Teams matched wits to answer tricky trivia questions on a range of topics, from physics to local history. The event was emceed by Ralph Hahn, with entertainment during intermission by the Friday Harbor Jazz Band (along with some special guests) -see photos below.

The Knowledge Bowl is presented each year by the San Juan Public Schools Foundation. Through its two main fundraisers, the Phone-a-Thon and the Business Partnership Program, the Schools Foundation raised $56,900 in 2007. These funds were used to enhance local public education programs, such as High School Spanish (textbooks), 4th & 5th grade Social Studies, Middle School Special Education, and the Auto Shop and Biology Lab at the High School, as well as other projects throughout the year.


The Soroptomist Club came in second


The 9th & 10th graders (Hannah Snow; Trevor Youngquist; Stephen Chadwick; Megan Cuomo; Hannah-Waite, and Jenni Dunn) were third


The 8th graders (Stewart Bell; Lucas Jagel; Jenny MacDonald; Audrey Olshefsky; Larissa Nash, and Malcolm Wynn) came in forth

At last the fallen Rotary Club;


Then the Lions;


and last, but not the least: the Kiwanis Club


And in the beginning there was the band