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Irvine High Schoolers Win Science Bowl Regional Championship At JPL

"The questions that they are asked are well beyond most high school curriculum," said coach David Knight.

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February 7, 2023

Over the weekend, Irvine's University High School team beat 20 Southern California schools at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena to stamp their ticket to Washington D.C. in April.

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They'll be competing in the National Science Bowl Championship — think Jeopardy with the brightest young minds in math, physics, biology, chemistry and earth as well as space sciences.

"The questions that they are asked are well beyond most high school curriculum," said coach David Knight. "They have to be able to, on their own, read AP or college-level books for fun on the weekends during the summer. And oftentimes not just read a certain textbook, not just once, but two, three, four times."

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