NOHO TAKES SCIENCE BOWL HIGH SCHOOL'S TWO TEAMS FACE OFF IN LADWP CONTEST'S GRUELING FINAL.Byline: Lisa M. Sodders Staff Writer It was North Hollywood vs. North Hollywood in Saturday's Los Angeles Department of Water and Power The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving 3.9 million residents in 2006. It was founded in 1902 to deliver water and electricity supplies to residents and businesses in Los Angeles. Science Bowl - and North Hollywood won. North Hollywood High
``I have a lot of mixed feelings here,'' said Len Soloff, North Hollywood's coach. ``I wanted one team to dominate the other, but they pretty much came out equal. Other than that, it's a great day for North Hollywood.'' ``We had amazingly difficult competition,'' said Tanya Martin of Encino of the younger, less experienced B Team. ``Our own B Team - the people we trained ourselves.'' The science bowl drew more than 200 high school students from 42 teams and 25 high schools for the competition Saturday at the DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection headquarters downtown. The five-member teams, which include an alternate, answered questions in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, earth and space science, calculus, trigonometry trigonometry [Gr.,=measurement of triangles], a specialized area of geometry concerned with the properties of and relations among the parts of a triangle. Spherical trigonometry is concerned with the study of triangles on the surface of a sphere rather than in the , computer programming, and science and technology news. Students were asked to solve complex mathematical problems and chemical formulas in a matter of seconds in a game show-style format. Questions covered everything from the symptoms of various vitamin deficiencies to the oxidation state oxidation state See valence. Noun 1. oxidation state - the degree of oxidation of an atom or ion or molecule; for simple atoms or ions the oxidation number is equal to the ionic charge; "the oxidation number of hydrogen is +1 and of sulfur. This was the seventh consecutive year a team from North Hollywood has won the LADWP LADWP Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Science Bowl. Indications that North Hollywood's chances were good surfaced when the two teams squared off at the quarterfinal round, with the B Team defeating the A Team 74 to 70. ``Are you going to have to shake hands to perform the customary act of civility by clasping and moving hands, as an expression of greeting, farewell, good will, agreement, etc. See also: Shake with yourself?'' Altair Maine, North Hollywood's Academic Decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. coach, bemusedly asked Soloff. Because the science bowl is set up in a double-elimination format, more than 400 people then watched as North Hollywood's A Team defeated Venice High School's A Team 82 to 62, winning the right to square off against the North Hollywood B Team again for the championship. North Hollywood A then defeated B 54 to 46, and in the final round, 52 to 20 to clinch the championship. Venice's coach, Richard Erdman, was philosophical about his team's third-place finish - Venice lost to North Hollywood last year in a nail- biting double-overtime: ``One of these years we'll pull it off. The kids are wonderful.'' What makes the science bowl so challenging, Erdman said, is that students are quizzed in many fields that aren't covered in the standard high school curriculum. ``The only way you do well is you read continuously and you read everything,'' Erdman said. LADWP Science Bowl regional winners have won four national titles and achieved final-four status seven times since 1995. National titles were won by Van Nuys High School Van Nuys High School (VNHS) established in 1914, is a high school in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District: District 2. in 1995, Venice in 1996 and 1997 and North Hollywood in 2001. In 2003, North Hollywood placed 12th in a 66-team field at the nationals. Lisa M. Sodders, (818) 713-3663 lisa.sodders(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Tanya Marton, left, of North Hollywood's A Team gets a hug from her sister Kacey on Saturday after her group beat Venice's A Team. Joel P. Lugavere/Special to the Daily News |
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