NOHO STUDENTS FALL IN NATIONAL SCIENCE BOWL SENIORS OUT IN FIRST ROUND.Byline: LISA The first personal computer to include integrated software and use a graphical interface. Modeled after the Xerox Star and introduced in 1983 by Apple, it was ahead of its time, but never caught on due to its $10,000 price and slow speed. FRIEDMAN Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Quick -- calculate the molecular mass of silicon tetrachloride Silicon tetrachloride is the chemical compound with the formula SiCl4. It was prepared by Jöns Jakob Berzelius in 1823. Chemistry This colourless volatile liquid compound is prepared by the treatment of silicon with chlorine:
While you Google to figure out what the heck silicon tetrachloride even is, five of the brightest young science minds in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. already have the answer. But even with that knowledge, the North Hollywood High School North Hollywood High School, originally called Lankershim High School when it opened in 1927, is a secondary school in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The school mascot is the husky, and the school colors are blue, white, grey. seniors competing Sunday in the 17th annual National Science Bowl could not move past the first round of championship games. The North Hollywood team lost only two out of seven fast-paced quiz rounds, but in the fierce competition among 64 schools nationally it put the team in its division's third round -- just short of being able to move into double elimination. "We're done," coach Altair Maine said after the team learned that the teams from Colorado and New Jersey -- the only schools that had managed to beat North Hollywood -- had made it into the second round. "We played two real sloppy rounds," Maine said. But, he said: "It was a lot of fun. It was a good year." And the kids learned a lot. How many meters in a yottameter? They know. They can also rattle off the proper names of the three stars of the summer triangle The Summer Triangle is an astronomical asterism involving an imaginary triangle drawn on the northern hemisphere's celestial sphere, with its defining vertices at Altair, Deneb, and Vega. This triangle connects the constellations of Aquila, Cygnus, and Lyra. , and they know the chemical name of household bleach. The first four numbers in the 11th row of Pascal's Triangle Pas·cal's triangle n. A triangle of numbers in which a row represents the coefficients of the binomial series. The triangle is bordered by ones on the right and left sides, and each interior entry is the sum of the two entries above. ? No sweat for Anguel Alexiev, John Chen, Andrew David, Emily Law and James Kim This article is about the CNET editor. For the Korean guitarist, see Kim Se Hwang. For the Korean-American physician, see Jim Kim. James Kim (August 9, 1971 – December 3/4, 2006) was an American television personality and technology analyst for the former . They have the answer at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. -- along with the Haber process for the production of ammonia. One part "Jeopardy" and one part "Name that Tune," the bowl is the nation's largest science competition. More than 12,000 students compete, with about 300 making it into the final round. The winning team wins a science-related trip to its choice of Australia, France or Newport News, Va. Last year, the North Hollywood team placed second. This year, the Southland team of science smarties Smarties may refer to:
"It's a wake-up round. They need to wake up," said North Hollywood High School Principal Dr. Randall Delling, who had flown out for the competition. They stormed through the next three rounds, wiping out teams from Illinois, Albuquerque and Sioux Falls, S.D. "That was more like it," Maine told his team, while ribbing them for missing a question on centripetal acceleration. "This was second week of physics," he chided. North Hollywood went down again against a team from Fort Collins, Colo., losing 70-144. "That was nasty," said Lisa David, Andrew David's mother, who flew to Washington with her family to support her son's team. They won their final two rounds, but by then they knew the competition was already over. "Maybe it was nervousness because we knew we had to try to not lose another one" after the first loss, said team member Law, the biology whiz of the group. "We're not too somber or anything," Alexiev said. "At least there's no pressure now." lisa.friedman(at)langnews.com |
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