Stadium School Harvests Awards at Agricultural Quiz Bowl
 On June 23, seven 8th-graders and a 6th-grader from the Stadium School took part in the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation Quiz Bowl. The Stadium School students were not only the sole Baltimore City public school at the Quiz Bowl but also the only African American kids.
The Stadium School students did very well at the bowl, which took place at the conference center at the Maritime Institute in Linthicum Heights. Two teams of four competed in the bowl, made up of members of Stadium’s academic bowl team and other students. The Stadium Panthers team (pictured) placed third, earning themselves $15 each. They were kept out of the championship match by a school from Washington County, which beat the Panthers by 10 points—just two questions.
We only heard about the contest a few weeks before, but we do extremely well under pressure, and knew we could be competitive at the Agricultural Quiz Bowl. So we studied the materials hard and went to the bowl prepared to show our stuff.
 The students from Stadium look forward to going back next year, more prepared and ready to win. The students on the Stadium Panthers who placed third were Tyikia Rollins, Caleb Jones, Dubray Kinney and Gene Graves. The Panthers Plus, which did not place but did very well, losing by 15 points to the bowl’s eventual champions in an earlier round, were Darrian Davis, Kiayra Ingram, Reginald Smallwood and Tamara Hall.
We all learned a lot from the experience about both competition and agriculture, a subject my students may have learned little about otherwise. One player on the quiz bowl team, Kiayra Ingram, is returning in the fall, and we both look forward to forming a new team, learning more about agriculture and having a great time.
George Roycroft is a teacher and academic bowl team coach at the Stadium School. | 
