It was a battle of experience versus quantity in the championship match at this year's Ames Laboratory/ISU Regional Science Bowl. And experience won out.
Ankeny High School defeated Pleasant Valley High School for the title, becoming the first three-member team to win the annual Ames Lab/ISU event. Valley High School, which won the 1998 National Science Bowl, finished third. The competition drew 200 students who demonstrated their academic skills in answering questions from a broad range of science and math topics.
While most of the 40 participating schools had four or five students on their teams, Ankeny decided to field a team of only three players when a fourth student withdrew because of another commitment.
"These three students are seniors who have played together on Science Bowl teams since they were sophomores," said Ankeny coach Mark Maffett. "They decided they knew each other so well that they didn't want to add someone new."
Ankeny went on to participate in DOE's National Science Bowl along with 52 other regional winners. Nationwide, more than 9,000 students from 1,800 schools took part in Science Bowl competitions.
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