Penn High School Academic teams qualify for state finals

Posted on April 22, 2016

Members of the Penn High School Academic Super Bowl-Social Studies team proudly display their first-place ribbons they earned at the Mishawaka Regional meet on Tuesday, April 19. Left to right, front row: Emily Schlundt, Celine Wang, Keegan Palonis and Luke Jerzak. Back row: Coach Pete DeKever. For the Social Studies team, this was the 22nd regional championship since 1992.  Penn Social Studies has won 12 state championships.

Penn High School's Kingsmen, the NorthWood Panthers  and the Northridge Raiders will be sending three teams each to the Academic Super Bowl state finals on Saturday, May 7 at Purdue University-West Lafayette.  

 
The Kingsmen teams which qualified for the state finals are Social Studies, Math and English.
 
Qualifying from NorthWood are Social Studies, Science and Math.
 
Making it to state from Northridge are the school's Fine Arts, Math and and Interdisciplinary teams.
 
Other teams qualifying for the state finals from area schools include Concord in Fine Arts, Jimtown in Social Studies and Interdisciplinary, LaPorte in Interdisciplinary, Elkhart Christian in Fine Arts and LaPorte LaLumiere in English and Wawasee in Social Studies.
 
The 30th annual Academic Super Bowl state finals will be contested at Purdue University's Loeb Auditorium.
 
Academic Super Bowl consists of 25 multiple choice questions per round with three students from each school competing at one time.  The team with the highest score is the state champion.
 
This year's ASB topic is "Hoosier Heritage"  celebrating Indiana's 200th anniversary of statehood.
 
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