North Hollywood High School team captures National Science Bowl crown

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (CNS) — A staff of North Hollywood Excessive Faculty science college students emerged victorious Saturday over students from 63 different colleges nationwide on this 12 months’s U.S. Division of Vitality Workplace of Science Nationwide Science Bowl Championship.

The win marks North Hollywood Excessive’s second Nationwide Science Bowl championship, following the title captured in 2001.

The varsity has positioned among the many high 5 groups 12 occasions on the nationwide occasion.

Naperville North Excessive Faculty from the Chicago space positioned second.

Rounding out the highest 4 groups are final 12 months’s championship staff, Dougherty Valley Excessive Faculty from San Ramon and Eastside Excessive Faculty of Gainesville, Florida.

This was the second 12 months that Nationwide Science Bowl competitors was held just about. This 12 months the regional competitions additionally have been held just about.

The North Hollywood Science Bowl Staff members are Captain Albert Zhang, Lydia Qin, Theodore Dupont, Shion Murakawa and Eric Yoon.

The coaches are Altair Maine and Len Soloff.

This title marks the fifth time an LADWP regional championship staff has received the Nationwide Science Bowl. It is also the fifteenth time a regional championship staff from Los Angeles positioned first although fifth in this system since 1993.

Final 12 months, North Hollywood positioned among the many high 4 groups throughout the digital finals, third in 2019 and second in 2018.

To qualify for the nationwide competitors, the North Hollywood staff in February received the 2021 LADWP Science Bowl Regional Competitors, the varsity’s twenty second regional title prior to now 24 years.

“Science Bowl is a proud LADWP custom and instance of the division’s dedication to the Los Angeles academic neighborhood,” LADWP Supervisor of Training Outreach Walter Zeisl mentioned.