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| McKinley Middle Magnet School's Sting Like A Bee Team placed first in the SU Land-Grant Campus' Middle School Black History Quiz Bowl on February 25, 2019. |
Baton Rouge,
La. – Teams of eager middle school students competed in the Southern University
Land-Grant Campus’s Middle School Black History Quiz Bowl Championship on February
25 in T.T. Allain Hall’s 3rd Floor Auditorium.
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 several schools throughout the
parish. The first and second place teams from each school were invited to
participant in the championship competition at Southern University.
Dr. Bandele served as the event’s
moderator and NBC Local 33 Anchor Deon Guillory also served as a guest moderator
for a round of the competition.
Awards were presented to the winners
by SU Ag Center’s Research Associate, Erica Williams Mitchell.
McKinley Middle Magnet’s Sting Like
A Bee Team took home 1st place; followed by Westdale Middle School’s Soul Train Team
in 2nd place and Scotlandville Middle Pre-Engineering Academy’s Black
Kulture Kids Team 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.
Photos from the competition can be
viewed here.
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