FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 30, 2000
CONTACTS:
David Christy (916) 353-4436 (Western Area Power Administration)
Patrick Keener (530) 224-4361 (Redding Electric Utility Department)
FOLSOM, CALIF. -- Students from Ashland High School in southern Oregon won a trip to the National Science Bowl with their victory in the Redding Regional Science Bowl Saturday.
Ashland will join 52 other high school teams from across the country competing for the title of 2000 U.S. Department of Energy National Science Bowl Champions in Washington, D.C., on May 5-8.
Members of the team, which is coached by Wes Reynolds, are James Marr, Jessica Reynolds, Max Doty and Johanna Salazar-Lazaro. An Ashland team also placed second in the school's first year at the Redding competition.
The National Science Bowl is an academic competition among teams of high school students. Since the program began in 1991, it has brought together more than 60,000 high school mathematics and science students - as well as their teachers - from across the country. The program is designed to encourage students and their teachers to achieve educational excellence in the sciences. Competing teams are quizzed on scientific topics in biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, earth science, computer science, and mathematics.
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