LC wins state Knowledge Bowl competition

Thu., March 30, 2006

By Kandis Carper kandisc@spokesman.com

“This battle occurred in 42 B.C. in Macedonia; as a result, both Cassius and Brutus committed suicide, and Octavius and Mark Antony became masters of Rome. Where was the battle? “

Answer: “Battle of Phillippi.”

Could you correctly answer a question like this?

Lewis and Clark High School’s Knowledge Bowl team can. It won first place in the Knowledge Bowl state finals competition held Saturday in Camas, Wash.

The team of six seniors – Kyl Wellman, Sarah Godlewski, John Taffin, Jeff Genung, Martin Box and Elliot Boswell – is coached by Dave Jackson and Theresa Meyer.

The team competed against 18 other 4A schools that had qualified for state (out of the 100 4A schools in Washington).

The team qualified for the championship round, where it competed against Kamiakin (last year’s champion) and Arlington and came away with a 16-to-11-to-7 victory for the state championship.

“The kids were great and represented LC like champions,” Jackson said.

Area high schools win culinary awards

Lewis and Clark High School and Lakeside High School in Nine Mile Falls took home awards from the ProStart Culinary Invitational held Saturday in Seattle.

Lakeside High School placed first in the case study portion of the competition.

LC took second in the same competition.

Lakeside also placed third in the overall competition, which tallied scores from cooking and knife skills, knowledge bowl and case study competitions.

The event included more than 200 students from 25 high schools across the state that participate in ProStart culinary arts programs, overseen by the Washington Restaurant Association Education Foundation.

This year’s entrants competed for hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship opportunities to attend advanced culinary institutions across the state and throughout the nation.

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