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| Episcopal High School's Umoja Team took home first place during the SU Land-Grant Campus' High School Black History Quiz Bowl Championship Competition on February 27. |
Baton Rouge,
La. – Six teams of high school students from McKinley Senior High,
Scotlandville Magnet High, Southern University Lab, Episcopal and Indira Mira
Institute competed in the Southern University Land-Grant Campus’s High School
Black History Quiz Bowl Championship on Feb. 27, 2019. The competition was held
in the 3rd Floor Auditorium of T.T. Allain Hall.
SU Ag Center’s Vice Chancellor for
Extension, Dawn Mellion-Patin, Ph.D., provided the opening remarks for the
event and SU Land-Grant Campus Professor Emeritus and Black History Quiz Bowl
organizer, Owusu Bandele,Ph.D., served as the event’s moderator.
Awards were presented to the winners
by SU Ag Center’s Research Associate, Erica Williams Mitchell.
Episcopal’s Umoja Team consisting of Justin Thompson, Madison Bell, Zykia Howard and Sean Moraes, took
home 1st place; followed by Scotlandville’s Period T Team consisting of Bryce
Hudson, Cadarius Moore, Trimell Carey, Neiyo Sumo and Johnny Williams in 2nd
place and Indira Mira Institute’s Team BR.U.H.S. consisting of Jesscia Fisher,
Naimah Frazier, Calista Joseph, Cyntrell Smith and Robert Joseph 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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