Get ready for team registration for the 2010 Gallaudet University Academic Bowl.

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Here is what to expect on 10/27/09 for team registration. The Academic Bowl home page (the page you are viewing now) will list the links that will allow teams from all over the United States to register for the Academic Bowl. This will take place on October 27, 2009 during the following times:

4 pm (Eastern); 3 pm (Central); 2 pm (Mountain); 1 pm (Pacific); 12 pm (Alaska); 10 am (Hawaii); 6 am (Guam)

Click on the link for your region and complete the online form.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

Please make sure you click on the correct link for your school’s region.

The first 16 teams that register for each region will be selected. Any team that registers in the wrong region will be rejected and the team who registered correctly after any rejected team will be selected.

When you click on the link, an automated form will appear on the web page. If you do not see the form, please be patient. Due to high web traffic during registration, the form may take a few seconds to load. Thank you for your patience.

West Region Registration
For schools in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Midwest Region Registration
For schools in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin

Southeast Region Registration
For schools in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee

Northeast Region Registration
For schools in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont

Mid-Atlantic Region Registration
For schools in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands

Additional Registration Information

After you complete the registration form and click on the Submit button, you will see a Thank You for Registering page on your computer screen. This means your registration was successfully sent to us.

What do you do next? Nothing. Please be patient and wait to hear from us if your team has been selected.

If you have any questions during the registration process, contact Sherry Duhon at:

AIM: sbduhon

Email:: sherry.duhon@gallaudet.edu

Academic Bowl 2010 Regional Host Sites Announced

Midwest:
Location/Host: Oklahoma School for the Deaf Sulphur, Oklahoma
Dates: February 4 – 8 , 2010

West:
Location/Host: Utah ( site will be announced )
Dates: February 18-21, 2010

MidAtlantic/At Large:
Location/Host: New Jersey School for the Deaf Trenton, New Jersey
Dates: March 18-20, 2010

Northeast:
Location: Old Rochester Regional High School Mattapoisett, MA
Dates: March 25 – 28, 2010
Host: READS Collaborative Program for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Southeast: TBA

Academic Bowl 2010 Nationals Announced

The 2010 Academic Bowl national championship will take place at Gallaudet University April 24-27, 2010.

Visit ab.gallaudet.edu for more information on the Academic Bowl.

Congratulations to University High School of Irvine, California, for capturing the 2009 Academic Bowl trophy.

To learn more. visit the website at ab.gallaudet.edu.

The Academic Bowl 3rd place and championship matches will be webcast live on April 27, starting at 7:00 p.m. EDT. Want to meet your webcast hostess, Allie Pucciarelli? Watch her video here.

Be sure to bookmark the live webcast page. Go to the Academic Bowl website here.

Battle of the Scholarly Sixteen: Teams Announced to Vie for 2009 Gallaudet University Academic Bowl Championship

PRESS RELEASE (APRIL 13, 2009) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gallaudet University is set to host the 13th annual National Academic Bowl competition, to be held April 25-28, 2008, on Gallaudet’s campus in Washington, D.C. Sixteen teams of deaf and hard of hearing students from across the United States will be arriving on Gallaudet’s Kendall Green campus on Saturday, April 25th. The first Academic Bowl match will take place on Sunday, April 26th, at 8:00 a.m. EDT.

This year’s national finalists include:

Southeast Region
White Station High School (Memphis, Tennessee)
Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (St. Augustine, Florida)
South Plantation High School (Plantation, Florida)

Midwest Region
Indiana School for the Deaf (Indianapolis, Indiana)
Minnesota North Star Academy (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Michigan School for the Deaf (Flint, Michigan)

West Region
California School for the Deaf (Fremont, California)
Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
University High School (Irvine, California)

Mid-Atlantic/At-Large Region
Maryland School for the Deaf (Frederick, Maryland)
W.T. Woodson High School (Fairfax, Virginia)
Monroe #1 BOCES (Rochester, New York)

Northeast Region
New York State School for the Deaf (Rome, New York)
EDCO at Newton North High School (Newtonville, Massachusetts)
Rochester School for the Deaf (Rochester, New York)

New this year is the introduction of one wild card team selected to attend the nationals by winning a sudden-death 20-question quiz competition. The wild card team that will be competing at nationals is the Learning Center School for the Deaf of Framingham, Massachusetts.

Over the course of two days, each team will compete to reach the national final match, which takes place on Monday, April 27th, at 8:15 p.m. EDT. The awards ceremony will take place immediately following the championship match.

This year’s national competition will be webcast live by Gallaudet University’s media services department, beginning with the third-place match on Monday, April 27th, at 7:15 p.m. EDT. Be sure to check out all of the action on the web; bookmark the official live webcast page at ablive.gallaudet.edu.

For more information about the championship, visit the official Academic Bowl website at ab.gallaudet.edu.

About the Gallaudet University Academic Bowl

Gallaudet University established the Academic Bowl for Deaf and Hard of Hearing High School Students in 1997, with the goal of promoting academic competition among school teams. Quiz tournaments, in which teams of high school students compete against each other in local, regional, and national events, have gained wide popularity among high schools and colleges throughout the country.

At each regional Academic Bowl, teams compete against each other in answering questions on a wide variety of subjects. The first and second place winners from each of the five regions compete in the National Academic Bowl at Gallaudet University in late April.

Beginning with the 2007-2008 competition year, the Academic Bowl program is administered through the Gallaudet University College of Professional Studies and Outreach (CPSO). To learn more about CPSO, please visit us online at cpso.gallaudet.edu.

About Gallaudet University

Gallaudet University, federally chartered in 1864, is a bilingual, diverse, multicultural institution of higher education that ensures the intellectual and professional advancement of deaf and hard of hearing individuals through American Sign Language and English. Gallaudet prepares its graduates for career opportunities in a highly competitive, technological, and rapidly changing world. Visit Gallaudet online at gallaudet.edu.

The Gallaudet Academic Bowl, coordinated by CPSO, was recently featured in the Lower Hudson Valley Journal News website. The article and video covers the BOCES team preparing for the Academic Bowl. Learn more.

For more on the Academic Bowl, including the Scholarly Sixteen finalists, go to the official site here.

The 13th annual Gallaudet University Academic Bowl, which is coordinated by CPSO, announces its first regional competition in February 2009. Deaf and hard of hearing students from across the

Official Academic Bowl logo

United States will be vying for a chance to compete at the nationals in April 2009.

The first regional competition takes place starting February 12, 2009, at California School for the Deaf in Fremont.

For more information about the Academic Bowl, click here.

The week of September 30-October 3 brought together CPSO’s Regional & National Outreach (RNO) team for their annual fall meeting here at Gallaudet University.

The team consists of RNO director Janne Harrelson and 6 GURC directors, Judy Coryell (Hawai’i and Pacific region), Pam Snedigar (West region), Kim Krebs (Midwest region), Kathy Vesey (Northeast region),   Lisa Jacobs (Mid-Atlantic region), and Steve Larew (Southeast region).  Jean Bergey, project director for History Through Deaf Eyes is also a member of the RNO team.

The GURC directors had a very full agenda throughout the week, and met with numerous people on campus.  Topics included offering and marketing extension courses, recruitment efforts, updated Clerc Center training initiatives, GURC program review, outreach work with Quest: Arts for Everyone, Gallaudet’s pending articulation agreements with community colleges, and documentation and reporting, among many others.  The week coincided with the Board of Trustees meetings to give the out-of-town directors an opportunity to attend the open Board sessions, and interact with board  members during the dedication and opening ceremony of the James Lee Sorenson Language and Communication Center.

The RNO team also had the opportunity to attend a luncheon hosted by CPSO in collaboration with the First Year Experience (FYE) office to honor Academic Bowl participants who are currently Gallaudet freshmen.  The regional directors enjoyed seeing the students again and talking with them about how they are doing at Gallaudet.  To learn more about this event, click here.

Another highlight of the week was for the GURC directors to ‘watch’ together the online registration for the regional Academic Bowls coming up this year.  It was exciting to see how quickly registration filled up for many regions; the first region filled up in only a couple of minutes!

To view photos of the GURC annual meeting, click here.

In the coming months, CPSO will be posting “Get to Know” profiles of the various GURC directors on the CPSO blog.  Stay tuned!  To learn more about Gallaudet Regional Centers, visit the official website here.

Thanks to CPSO staffer Peck Choo-Kim for taking the photos.

Team registration for the 2009 Academic Bowl, which took place on October 2, recorded almost 100 schools from across the United States.

The deadline to register your school is October 17, 2008.  For more information, please go to the official Academic Bowl website.

Photo by Peck Choo-Kim

On October 1, 2008, over 20 former Academic Bowl participants from across the U.S. enjoyed an Italian lunch at Old Jim with CPSO staffers.  The participants, who now attend Gallaudet as first-year students, talked about their Academic Bowl experiences and answered trivia questions presented by Sherry Duhon, CPSO staffer and Academic Bowl coordinator.

To view photos of the day’s event, click here.

Thanks to CPSO staffer Peck Choo-Kim for taking the photos.