<p>There are 13,000 students involved in science bowl around the country. SURELY there are a few on this website!</p>
<p>Speak up, fellow science bowlers! Anyone here going to nationals and/or know what's up with this "energy" category?</p>
<p>I was in my regional science bowl. We didn’t qualify for nationals because one other team actually has a class in their school on competitions such as that.
We actually did well even against that team, but not well enough to qualify.</p>
<p>My team narrowly won regionals after losing its first round early on! Pretty thrilling stuff.</p>
<p>As far as I know they’re just lumping energy-related, relatively basic questions in every subject into Energy. A few of them are in there solely to advertise the Dept. of Energy (did you know US emissions fell in 2009?), and the stats for them are collected on some website sponsored by it.</p>
<p>I’m in science bowl at Los Angeles. My school always gets in the top five, but then raped by noho… hopefully I’ll change that haha.</p>
<p>And yea the energy category is pretty stupid, I can’t believe they practically rid their question bank of practically the whole astronomy section during regionals.</p>
<p>ah, the fearsome north hollywood. </p>
<p>dogod, did you go to long island science bowl? (my guess is that you are from ward melville, but that might be wildly inaccurate.)</p>
<p>i thought i saw somewhere in the rules that at nationals there’s an entire category devoted to “sponsor” questions. i.e. commercial sponsor questions, like one having to do with texas instruments and… calculators? it’s possible that i was hallucinating, though.</p>
<p>to dannynobel, i feel your pain. i’m an astronomy enthusiast</p>
<p>no im from L.A</p>
<p>Congratulations, Mira Loma!</p>