By Christina Luna
Are you passionate about the world of science? Do you want to know more than you are being taught in your regular classes? Well you should join the Science Bowl that’s offered at Lincoln every year. Science Bowl is a team that focuses on studying different sciences: astronomy, geology, math, and other subjects as well. There are two teams that actually compete in the regional competitions: Team A and B. Non-competing students that still form part of the Science Bowl are known as the Support Crew. The competing students meet twice a week and the non-competing students meet once a week.
Well, how do you get prepared for the competitions? “The competing students study on Tuesdays for about 2 ½ hours only in one subject; we also meet in Christmas break for three days for 6 hours,” Kathia Garcia mentioned. Kathia is one of the competing students that is in Team B. It might seem that it’s a lot of work, but it’s the most wonderful activity that science fanatics get to do.
“When you are in Science Bowl and it’s your senior year you have the last chance to prove what you have,” Ericka Saracho stated. Ericka is also one of the competing students, but she is in Team A. Having fun and learning new things every day are advantages that are obtained by studying various subjects; just like these students that find time to prove what they have.
The Lincoln students competed on February 27, against other regional schools in the LADWP Regional Science Bowl competition.
Team B competed against North Hollywood’s Team A during Round 1. It seemed that this was a really rough start; Lincoln lost this round of the competition. But after this loss, the students turned on their light bulbs. Their batteries were now fully charged, and they came back by winning 4 consecutive games. Nevertheless after so much effort, a misfortune struck. The Lincoln competitors lost the last round of the competition against Marshall.
After the morning session the teams were now in their 30 minute break. During lunch it was known that Team B would not advance. Team B had obtained a score of 4:2. According to the Science Bowl regulations a team advances or not depending on their record of winnings/losses or on their points. Team B’s record was unfortunately not good enough to advance to the afternoon rounds.
In the morning session, Team A had obtained a score of 5:1 and as their result they had advanced to the afternoon rounds. The next competitor was Sherman Oaks CES and underestimating this competing team was one of the inaccuracies that the Lincoln students had made. They lost this round of the competition. The following team to compete against was Venice; they had a victory of 132 points. The next team to defeat was Granada Hills. A misfortune struck once again, Lincoln lost with a double elimination, which means if a team loses twice they are eliminated from the competition. At first Ericka had thought that this wasn’t the best they have done, but she was proud of her team. She thought that there was more effort to be shown by her part but nevertheless this was an exciting day to strike that inner lightning that each Lincoln student had even though it meant not winning. Team A obtained the 8th place out of 42 competing schools. We can be proud of the great effort Lincoln students demonstrated.
Keep rocking it, Lincoln Students.
Science Bowl Coaches: Ms. Paulson and Ms. Kaing
Team A: Team B:
Andy Hu Kathia Garcia
Ericka Saracho Kevin Dang
Karen Chu Mark Duong
Ken Chhan Qiao Kuang
Tommy Truong William Wong
Support Crew: Benjy Kwong, David Ramon, Juan Ramon, Kary Tran,
Lizbeth Garcia, Steve Pan
