High School Academic Pyramid Questions
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| President or CEO | Shawn Pickrell | |||
| Location: | Vienna, VA | |||
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HSAPQ (High School Academic Pyramid Questions) is a question writing company started in 2008. It strives to provide high quality pyramidal questions to high school tournaments. For the 2008-09 season, HSAPQ produced four ACF-format sets, one Four-Quarter format set, and two NSC-format sets. For the 2009-10 season, they planned to produce six ACF-format sets and three Four-Quarter sets; however, difficulties in completing their first two sets led them to cut back to three ACF-format sets and two Four-Quarter sets.
Since 2009, HSAPQ has been the question provider for VHSL; their VHSL questions have been lauded by schools such as Maggie Walker and Christiansburg for their improved quality. Since 2011, HSAPQ has been the question provider for National History Bowl, and in 2012 will produce its qualifying sets as well.
HSAPQ runs the National All-Star Academic Tournament in June.
Legally, HSAPQ is owned by Shawn Pickrell and is a continuation of his Scholastic Bowl Company of Virginia, though in reality, most actual responsibility lies in the hands of several editors.
Current Members
- Evan Adams
- Sarah Angelo
- Sam Bailey
- George Berry
- Matt Bollinger (Set Editor)
- Joe Brosch
- Will Butler (non-writing member, Chief Technology Officer)
- Rob Carson
- Tommy Casalaspi
- Mike Cheyne
- Daniel Chupin
- Aaron Cohen
- Ben Cole
- Charlie Dees
- Ryan Dillon
- Dan Donohue (Set Editor)
- Eric Douglass
- Kurtis Droge
- Stephen Eltinge
- Carsten Gehring (Host Contact)
- Diana Gerr
- Dan Goff (non-writing member, VHSL Liaison)
- Eliza Grames
- Jarrett Greene
- Auroni Gupta
- Sid Hariharan
- Matt Hayes
- Isaac Hirsch
- Sandy Huang
- Tanay Kothari
- Jeffrey Li
- Thomas Littrell
- Jason Loy
- Fred Morlan
- Eric Mukherjee
- Ikshu Neithalath
- Benji Nguyen
- Miriam Nussbaum
- Aaron Pellowski
- Shawn Pickrell (non-writing member, Chief Financial Officer)
- Connie Prater
- Casey Reterrer
- JR Roach
- Charlie Rosenthal
- Bernadette Spencer
- Ashvin Srivatsa
- Cody Voight
- Matt Weiner (Set Editor)
- Dwight Wynne
HSAPQ also employs a number of freelance question writers, some of whom are listed below.
Former Members
- Andrew Alexander
- Jeff Amoros
- Logan Anbinder
- Bruce Arthur
- Matt Chadbourne
- Trevor Davis
- Ian Eppler
- Andrew Feist
- Ted Gioia
- Andrew Hart
- Chuhern Hwang
- Ike Jose
- Hannah Kirsch
- Jonathan Magin
- Will Nediger
- Cameron Orth
- George Stevens
- Daichi Ueda
- Andy Watkins