Hello all! I'm still pretty new as a moderator in the Academic Challenge/Quizbowl circuit even after a year or two of helping organize a team and I'm looking to get deeper in this year. The biggest problem is I have no experience from high school with this type of group and I have had very little assistance from those here who have any experience. Hopefully someone can help me - I am always having trouble finding out about events being run in NE Ohio, especially near Cleveland, and I wanted to know is there some place where I can find that list for this upcoming year? My students keep asking me for more and I don't know what to tell them since the few I found last year were an hour or more away and traveling with them is not necessarily an easy thing to arrange. In addition I am always unclear on what events my students can participate in - there appears to be some rules regarding question sets and at times events are listed with additional items attached to their names and I am unclear what the differences actually are, if there are any! Thanks for entertaining my ignorance and getting me some info to help out. I have some fantastic young men interested and would love to let them showcase their skills at more events, I just need help finding them! Thanks again.
Robert Ryan
Benedictine High School Academic Challenge moderator