August 20, 2008
Dear Potential Scholars Bowl
Team Member (and Parent/Guardian):
Welcome! The 2008-2009 Auburn High School
Scholars Bowl team has two major events this year. They are the Knowledge
Masters Open (KMO) Tournaments. KMO are computerized academic competitions in
which a team of students works to answer 100-200 questions within a limited time
period. KMO competition questions are multiple-choice and cover all
subject areas in 15 categories. The questions involve higher level thinking
skills in analysis and application as well as knowledge and comprehension.
Students work as a team during competitions, discussing what their responses
will be. The results of the contest are tabulated into overall, state and
enrollment-size rankings. Last year AHS ranked 7th (out of 20) in the
state, and 244th (of 703) in the world; see http://www.greatauk.com/kmoh.pdf
for more details.
KMO was designed to stimulate enthusiasm for
learning and recognition for academic accomplishment. The contest runs on a
classroom computer to allow all students the opportunity to compete in a large
academic event without the expense of traveling to a central site. This is
especially important to us because of increased gas prices and the
school-systems inability to fund many field trip- type activities. Traveling
with a dozen or so Scholars Bowl team members to academic competitions is highly
cost-prohibitive.
The dates for the KMO
tournaments are December 3, 2008 and April 22, 2009. The Scholars Bowl team will
be competing after the school day each of those particular Wednesdays.
Please feel free to contact
me for further information…
Cory
Callahan, PhD candidate (A.B.D.)
Social
Studies Department