MVCTC Youth Connections Team – Knowledge Bowl State Champions
Marysville, OH -- The Miami Valley Career Technology Center (MVCTC) Youth Connections team won first place in the Senior Division at the State Knowledge Bowl Competition on April 12 at the Honda Heritage Center in Marysville, Ohio. The team of four students earned a total score of 390 points.
Knowledge Bowl is an academic competition that allows Career Based Intervention (CBI) students to compete against each other in a both regional and state competition. Teams can have up to ten (10) students. Each student is responsible for learning his or her categories. Preparation for Knowledge Bowl requires both in school studying and studying at home.
Knowledge Bowl encourages teamwork, demonstrates that learning can be fun, develops student pride, and is good for community relations. The KB contest has 20 categories, with 100 questions per category. Many of the questions focus on content from End of Course Exams, the ACT, Work Keys, various credential assessments, CBI classroom and work-related topics, financial literacy and random, fun trivia.
The MVCTC Youth Connections Knowledge Bowl Team included Keegan Jarrett (Oakwood), Hannah McQueen (West Carrollton), Jakob Trout (West Carrollton), and the captain Olivia Shedd (Brookville).
MVCTC Youth Connections teacher, Todd Engel, shared, “Knowledge Bowl provides our students with an opportunity to see their true potential and abilities when they truly apply themselves. They realize that learning can be fun when they work together as a unified team to accomplish things that they never thought were possible. The students became very passionate and committed to the studying and learning of their categories with hours of preparing both at school and at home and they develop not only good study habits that will serve them well in the future, but also a great deal of self-confidence.”
MVCTC Youth Connections is based on instruction in a small personal setting with a great deal of flexibility and a curriculum that will allow students to receive their high school diploma and gain skills necessary that lead to long-term employment. All students enrolled in Youth Connections are a part of the Career Based Intervention (CBI) program. While attending Youth Connections students are still considered a part of their home school, and are able to participate in extra-curricular activities and graduate with their home high school.
Youth Connections will be holding their Student Celebration on May 10, 2019, at 10:30 a.m. Youth Connections has over 985 students who have completed graduation requirements since inception and may reach the 1000 students served mark by the end of this school year.
For more information about the MVCTC Youth Connections program, please visit http://www.mvctc.com/YouthConnections.
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Photo: - The MVCTC Youth Connections Knowledge Bowl Team displays their 1st Place Team Plaque and individual Gold Medals.
(left to right) – Aden Penrod (Teacher - Chaperone) Jakob Trout, Olivia Shedd, Hannah McQueen, Keegan Jarrett, Todd Engel (Teacher – KB Coach)
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