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| 2018 Middle School Black History Quiz Bowl Championship Competition participants and teachers. |
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| Westdale's Wakanda Team won 1st place during the Championship Middle School Black History Quiz Bowl Competition. |
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| McKinley Middle Magnet School's Imhotep Team won 2nd place. |
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| Westdale Middle School's Freedom Riders Team won 3rd place. |
Baton Rouge, La. – Six teams of
eager middle school students from McKinley Middle Magnet, Westdale Middle
School and Scotlandville Middle Pre-Engineering Academy competed in the SU
Land-Grant Campus’s Middle School Black History Quiz Bowl Championship
Competition on Feb. 28.
Earlier in the month, SU Land-Grant
Campus Professor Emeritus and Black History Quiz Bowl organizer, Owusu Bandele,
Ph.D., conducted Black History Quiz Bowls at the three schools. The first and
second place teams from each school were invited to participant in the
championship competition at the SU Ag Center.
SU Land-Grant Campus Vice Chancellor
for Extension, Dawn Mellion-Patin, Ph.D., provided the opening remarks for the
event and Bandele served as the event’s moderator.
Awards were presented to the winners
by SU Land-Grant Campus Research Associate Erica Williams Mitchell.
Westdale’s Wakanda Team, consisting
of Kahlila Bandele; Elijah Doomes; Candi Semien; Lailah Collins and Khamerin
Edmonds, took home 1st place; followed by McKinley’s Imhotep Team, consisting
of Justin Thompson; Michael Shin; Sean Murphy and Victoria Williams in 2nd
place and Westdale’s Freedom Riders Team, consisting of Micah Dunn; Caelen
Broussard; Pamela Davis; Marshall Seymour and Phillip Antoine in 3rd
place.
The competition covered a variety of
topics including current events, politics, history, sports and entertainment.
Members of the 1st, 2nd and
3rd place teams received medals and every participant received
a book by or about some aspect of the Black experience.
The event ended with SU Land-Grant
Campus Chancellor-Dean Bobby R. Phills, Ph.D., encouraging the young students
to pursue a college education.
Photos from the competition can be
viewed here.
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