Brain Bowl
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Brain Bowl is an academic competition in which Florida Community College teams are pitted against one another. Teams consist of up to six players, only four of whom play at any given time. A moderator reads questions from four subject areas that includes humanities, mathematics, natural science and social sciences. Each area is equally represented. A buzzer system is used to identify the player who buzzes in first. Ten points are awarded for correctly answering the tossup question. The team winning the tossup is eligible to win up to 20 points for correctly answering the followup bonus questions. After twenty questions, the team that has accumulated the most points, wins the game. In tournament play, the championship match is more lengthy, with 44 questions.
More recently founded is the annual Brain Bowl between South Lakes High School and Herndon High School in Fairfax County, Virginia. The contest, first occurring in the 2005-06 school year, will expand the athletic rivalry between the two into the field of acadamia.
Brain Bowl varies from Quiz Bowl and other forms in that only academic questions are used.
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[edit] Florida Brain Bowl Purpose
The purpose of Brain Bowl competition is to recognize outstanding student academic achievement, to help focus community interest on academic excellence in Florida community colleges, and to help foster relations among faculty and students as they work together on this joint project.
[edit] History and Scholarships
Florida Brain Bowl was created in the fall of 1981 and until 1991 was a joint project of the Florida State Department of Education and the Florida Community College Activities Association. Since 1991, the FCCAA has been the sole sponsor of the Brain Bowl.
After initially gaining the approval and support of the Florida Community College Council of Presidents, the fall of 1981 was spent developing rules and organizing regional competitions. The cash awards for the initial year came from a combination of funds from the legislative appropriation that established the Program to Recognize Initiative and Distinction in Education (PRIDE) and more than $12,000 that the founders of the Brain Bowl competition were able to raise from private sources.
Since its inception in 1981, the Florida Community Colleges Brain Bowl competition has involved more than 1,000 students in regional and state competitions. During that time, the Florida Department of Education has awarded more than $80,000 to community college students who have competed in these tournaments. Private colleges and universities, as well as state supported universities, have made available almost $1 million worth of scholarship opportunities. Each year the host school records the Championship match for future broadcast to the television viewers in the State of Florida.
[edit] Tournament History
Brain Bowl Tournament winners are: 1982: Florida Junior College at Jacksonville
1983: Florida Junior College at Jacksonville
1984: St. Petersburg Junior College
1985: Miami Dade Community College -South Campus
1986: Seminole Community College
1987: Miami Dade Community College -South Campus
1988: Florida Community College at Jacksonville
1989: Broward Community College
1990: Broward Community College
1991: Broward Community College
1992: Broward Community College
1993: Broward Community College
1994: Valencia Community College
1995: Valencia Community College
1996: Central Florida Community College
1997: Broward Community College
1998: Broward Community College
1999: Valencia Community College
2000: Tallahassee Community College
2001: Valencia Community College
2002: Pensacola Junior College
2003: Valencia Community College
2004: Okaloosa-Walton College
2005: Okaloosa-Walton College
2006: Broward Community College
[edit] Florida Community College Activities Association
[edit] Teams
[edit] Panhandle Region Teams
Chipola College
Gulf Coast Community College
Okaloosa-Walton College
Pensacola Junior College
North Florida Community College
Tallahassee Community College
[edit] East Central Region Teams
Brevard Community College
Central Florida Community College
Florida Community College at Jacksonville
Lake-Sumter Community College
Santa Fe Community College
Seminole Community College
[edit] West Central Region Teams
Hillsborough Community College
Manatee Community College
Polk Community College
South Florida Community College
Valencia Community College
[edit] Southern Region Teams
Broward Community College
Florida Keys Community College
Indian River Community College
Palm Beach Community College
