Re: question

• From: puritanone <info_at_puritanone.yahoo.invalid>
• Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:42:01 -0000
• Message-ID: <aeqtr9+sh8u_at_...>

--- In quizbowl_at_y..., ttumc_webmaster <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> I saw part of Calvin's performance on TV--very impressive! Congrats 
> to him.  I think it's probably not too soon to think about 
attending 
> the University of South Florida in a couple years! <G>
>

We prefer the temperate climate of Michigan.


 
> To get started in Quiz Bowl, you should visit the Maize Pages for a 
> lot of good info: http://www.umich.edu/~uac/mac/maize/index.html
> 
> There are occasionally "open" tournaments that accept exhibition 
> teams from all quarters.  Typically, however, your sons would 
> represent their school or equivalent (for example, in Pinellas 
> County, FL, there is a home school coalition called HEAT that 
> competes in sports and other competitions versus the neighboring 
> public and private schools) in a quiz competition.  Matt Weiner has 
a 
> good page on H.S. tournaments at: http://www.hsquizbowl.org.  There 
> are also various competitions for elementary or J.H. teams, but I'm 
> not too familiar with them.  I believe they are mostly localized 
> events (i.e., county or statewide).  Here are a couple I know of: 
> http://www.greatauk.com/KMO.html and 
> http://www.newsbowl.com/newsbowl/index.html.
> 

Thanks for all the helpful information.  I'll be checking them out.


- J. Parnell McCarter
Grand Rapids, Michigan
www.puritans.net