VENICE SNAPS NOHO HIGH SCIENCE BOWL WIN STREAK.Byline: Lisa M. Sodders Staff Writer North Hollywood High
``It had to happen sometime,'' said 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. Principal Randall Delling. ``We just didn't get the luck, didn't get the breaks,'' echoed North Hollywood Coach Len Soloff. ``But (Venice is) a great team, and I wish them all the luck in Washington.'' The Venice team - Nicole O'Keeffe, Jonah Rosenthal, Seth Rotkin, Lorenzo D'Amico and Andrew Bernstein, led by coach Richard Erdman - will next compete in the U.S. Department of Energy National Science Bowl from April 28 to May 2 in Washington, D.C. Saturday's 13th annual regional contest was held at the downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or headquarters of the Department of Water and Power, which sponsors the event. North Hollywood and Venice high schools have been fierce rivals for years in the science contest. Both teams are national champions, with Venice winning in 1996 and 1997 and North Hollywood winning in 2001. ``It's too good to be true,'' said a jubilant Lorenzo D'Amico, 17, of the Venice team. ``For years, we've been trying to beat North Hollywood.'' Coach Erdman is planning to retire in a year; team members wore blue ``Revenge of the Erds'' shirts in his honor. More than 200 Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. students from 26 high schools competed in five-member teams Saturday in the regional competition, which includes college-level questions in 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. The double-elimination competition is run much like a game show, with two teams facing off with buzzers as a moderator reads questions. The two powerhouse teams met each other in the final round, which Venice won 116 to 112. As students answered questions on everything from entropy to Erlenmeyer flasks, black holes to buckyball buckyball, colloquial term for buckminsterfullerene, a roughly spherical fullerene molecule consisting of 60 carbon atoms. Buckytube is a generic term for cylindrical fullerenes. molecules, more than 300 people watching sat on the edge of their seats, groaning when a team member got a question wrong, gasping when they got a difficult one right, and erupting into cheers when rounds ended. LADWP LADWP Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Science Bowl regional winners have won four national titles and achieved final-four status seven times since 1995. In 2004, North Hollywood won the regional competition and placed fifth in a 60-team field at the nationals. Lisa M. Sodders, (818) 713-3663 lisa.sodders(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Members of the Venice High School team react to beating North Hollywood High School in the Science Bowl finals. (2) Members of the North Hollywood High School team react as they lose to Venice High School in the Science Bowl finals at 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 in Los Angeles on Saturday. Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer |
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