The Walnut High School Science Bowl team made the Top 8 at the Jan. 22 regional competition, which marked the 30th year NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has hosted the tournament. The event brings together science- and math-minded high schoolers from across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Santa Barbara counties. 

 

The Walnut High Science Bowl team members are Lucas He, Renee Chang, Serena Huang, Surya Donath, and Patrick Wang.

 

The team members are quizzed at a first-year college level in biology, chemistry, Earth and space science, energy, math, and physics in a fast-paced verbal format.

 

Teams have just seven seconds to answer questions like this sample from the chemistry category:

Dr. Ecniecs, who loves riddles, gave the following riddle about the periodic table: Element A is left-right adjacent to element B. Element A never shares what it holds. Element B is always taking from other elements. Both elements are a clear gas. Both elements are nonmetals. Combined, they have a mass less than that of gallium. What are the identities of elements A and B?

The answer: neon and fluorine.

Congrats to our Science Bowl team! Way to represent!