Knowledge Bowl is a club that takes place at the Owatonna High School. In Knowledge Bowl, students are given the opportunity to work as a team to show off their academic skills. When the team competes they do so in meets, each meet has five rounds that students participate in. This includes the written round where they work as a team to answer multiple choice questions and four oral rounds which are set up in a way similar to Jeopardy. Students can work in teams of up to five for the written round and a team of up to four for the oral round.
Practices for Knowledge Bowl consist of running through questions from previous years or meets, read off by the coaches, Mr. Dan Saehler and Mr.Dean Smith. Students are encouraged to study different topics as well. During meets, students are given practice time and during that time, the coaches talk through possible strategies and clues to help students be successful.
The OHS Knowledge Bowl is having an excellent season this year.
Mr. Saehler said, “We have gotten some strong results from multiple teams; we had four teams finish in the top 10 at the last meet.”
Mr. Saehler is confident that as the season progresses, there will be a couple teams moving forward, potentially to state.
Senior Carter Hanson is one of many who are having a great season this year. Hanson’s team consists of five members: Matthew Larson, Elijah Leon, Cooper Ackman, John Jirele and himself.
In their last few meets they have been placing third and fourth in competitions consisting of approximately 30 teams. Paraphrasing what Hanson said, he loves being a part of Knowledge Bowl.
He said, “It’s probably the most laid-back activity I’m in, the atmosphere is super fun and full of jokes.”
The entire Knowledge Bowl team is working very hard to continue their successes and potentially progress to state. The next Knowledge Bowl competition is March 14.
