VALLEY SWEEPS SCIENCE BOWL.Byline: Sharline Chiang and Jennifer Knight Daily News Staff Writer Three teams from Valley high schools brainstormed their way to a sweep of the annual Science Bowl competition Saturday. 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. won a marathon 11 matches without defeat to take the contest championship, beating Francis Polytechnic High School of Sun Valley. The North Hollywood B team took third. The sweep dethroned past champion Venice High School Venice High School may refer to:
``It's like winning a title in football, only better,'' said Walter Zeisl, coordinator of the competition for the sponsor, the 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. . For the students, the contest was an endurance match, requiring them to know the most arcane facts of chemistry, biology and physics - and be able to summon them quickly. A sample question: Which statement is not true of nucleic acid hybridization Hybridization is the process, discovered by Alexander Rich, of combining complementary, single-stranded nucleic acids into a single molecule. Nucleotides will bind to their complement under normal conditions, so two perfectly complementary strands will bind to each other readily. ? A) Double-stranded DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. denatures at high temperatures. B) A DNA strand cannot hybridize hy·brid·ize intr. & tr.v. hy·brid·ized, hy·brid·iz·ing, hy·brid·iz·es 1. To produce or cause to produce hybrids; crossbreed. 2. with an RNA RNA: see nucleic acid. RNA in full ribonucleic acid One of the two main types of nucleic acid (the other being DNA), which functions in cellular protein synthesis in all living cells and replaces DNA as the carrier of genetic strand. C) A DNA strand can hybridize with another DNA strand. The correct answer: B. North Hollywood High School team members are Gregory Marsden, Iris Ahronowitz, Emily Kuwahara, Michael Saji and Emily Wang. Teacher and coach is Koh Ikeda. Francis Polytechnic team members are Kunthea Chun, Chu-Chih Hu, Myduyen Huynh, Colin Lewis and Surapond Somkaew. The coach is DWP engineer Lawren Minor. Cory Abramson, Alec Bellanca, Vinly Eng, Paul Lakin and Erin O'Neil compose the North Hollywood High School B team. Len Soloff is the teacher coach. It was pure stress - and fun - for the students, said Alen Kirecci, 17, a Van Nuys High senior. After losing a round in the bowl Saturday, his team had just minutes to race off for another 18-minute showdown. ``You just want to block everything out and concentrate,'' said Kirecci, looking confident as the competition moved into its sixth hour. Hundreds of students from 42 Los Angeles-area public and private schools - including 21 from the Valley - converged at Department of Water and Power headquarters downtown to compete for the regional title in the Los Angeles Science Bowl. The winning team now moves on to the National Science Bowl in Washington, D.C., on May 4. The first-place team won $1,000 in science equipment, materials or software of their chose for its school. Each student received a $1,000 Hitachi scholarship. Even after hours and hours of studying, the pace of rapid-fire questioning on subjects like science, physics, biology and chemistry and other science subjects can leave even the brainiest of brains dizzy, players said. Each team had five seconds to answer tossup questions and 20 seconds to answer bonus questions. ``Everything flashes before you,'' said Van Nuys High School team member Carlos Huang, 17. But still, plenty of students took care to keep themselves from taking wins, or losses, too seriously. ``It's fun. It's competing in something that we do well,'' said Josh Tasoff, 16, of the Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies (also Sherman Oaks CES or SOCES) is a (magnet) public school in the San Fernando Valley, Southern California, United States. in Reseda. |
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