Re: Starting a new team

• From: David <mrdavid_at_mrdavidjb.yahoo.invalid>
• Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:50:53 -0000
• Message-ID: <aqocjt+rj33_at_...>

Ricardo,

Here are a few links to different pages for how to start a quizbowl 
program.

Starting a quizbowl team (Hayden Hurst, Delaware)
http://copland.udel.edu/stu-org/acc/links/start.html

Starting a new collegiate team... (NAQT)
http://www.naqt.com/HowTo/start-a-college-team.html

Funding Academic Competition Programs (Tom Michael)
http://www.zebra.net/~tfm/funding.html

If Delaware holds any more college tournaments this year, I will let 
you know.

David Balseiro
Univ of Del

--- In quizbowl_at_y..., "Ricardo" <rjpineres_at_y...> wrote:
> My name is Ricardo Pineres.  I am currently at freshman at James 
> Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA.  My university used to have 
a 
> program about 5 years back and then it disappeared.  I have some 
> interest among the students and currently working with the 
> administration in trying to revive the program.  I am looking for 
> input on how I should approaching finances and logistics of starting 
> a new team.  I am also looking for tournaments in the Mid-Atlantic 
> Region that I could possibly send a team to.  Please e-mail me with 
> any information on how to make my team a reality and tournamnets 
that 
> we can attend.  I did quiz bowl in high school, so I now the basics 
> (I was President of the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science 
> Technology's team in Alexandria, Virginia).  I hope that I can make 
> this program a reality, but in order for this to happen I will need 
> your help.  Thank you very much.
> - Ricardo Pineres
>   pinererj_at_j...
>   (540) 612-4171