Academic WorldQuest 2006
Document Actions
2006 Informational E-mails
2006 Weekend Program
Teams
Forty eight teams came representing schools and councils in Anchorage, Asheville, Atlanta, Brattleboro-Putney, Buffalo, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Colorado Springs, Columbia, Dallas\Ft.Worth, Dayton, Denver, Greenville NC, Hampton Roads, Hartford, Hawaii, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Juneau, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Louisville, Maine, Missoula, Naples, New York (FPA), Palm Beaches, Palm Springs, Peoria area, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland OR, Poughkeepsie area, Providence, Raleigh, Reading PA, Richmond VA, Sacramento, San Antonio, Savannah, Springfield MA, Stamford, St. Louis, Valley Forge, Ventura County CA, Washington DC, and Wilmington.
There were 210 student participants and another 115 chaperones, teachers, and council staff members overall.
Competition
John Donvan of ABC News was the Master of Ceremonies and we thank him for giving so generously of his time.
Marianne Leach, Kendra Link, Hoang Anh Lam, Mark Rebstock, Ann Nicocelli, Beth Windisch, and Ellen Doukoullos were judges. We thank them for their Saturday afternoons and a job well done.
There were 100 tough questions in 10 rounds on Great Decisions, Countries, the UN, People in the News, Flags, Nobel Prizes, US Neighbors, Landmarks and Monuments, Peoples of the World, and Current Events.
Winners
Five teams tied for first at the end and went into a sudden-death tiebreaker.
These teams took the top prizes:
1st - Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology from Washington, DC
2nd - Raleigh Charter High from Raleigh, NC
3rd - Bellaire High of Houston
4th - Hellgate High of Missoula
5th - Alamo Heights High of San Antonio.
Prizes were engraved plaques and one-year subscriptions to Foreign Policy Magazine.
The New York Times, the UN Foundation, Foreign Policy Magazine, Foreign Affairs, and the World Affairs Councils of America donated gifts, door prizes, and AWQ T-shirts.
The weekend included a nighttime bus tour of Washington at the peak of the cherry blossom season, a session on international careers with David Sadoff of the Executive Office of the President, tickets to the Washington Monument and the Spy Museum and the Holocaust Museum, and an evening with Capitol Steps.
The event was held one block off the Mall and very close to Capitol Hill, the Smithsonian, and monuments.
Many teams visited their congressional delegations on Capitol Hill.
Sponsors
Many many thanks to our national sponsors Noel Lateef and Great Decisions, Mike Patten and the New York Times Knowledge Network, Amb. Jim Jones and the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Alex Lari and the Claremont Group.
And thanks to the 94 local sponsors who made it possible for the teams to come to Washington. Their names were on the program and will be listed on the national website.