A&T Students to Participate in Quiz Bowl

GREENSBORO - Five North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students will display their intellectual abilities at the 2003 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC) Quiz Bowl March 26-31, in Orlando, Florida.

The traveling team members are captain Antoine Harris, a senior political science major from Fayetteville, N.C.; Jonathan Rosero, a senior lab animal science major from Forestville, Md.; William Griffin, a junior management of Information Systems/ Bus. Econ. major from Pittsboro, N.C.; Justin Bullock, a sophomore civil engineering major from Fairbluff, N.C.; and Derrick Ware, a senior marketing major from Columbus, Ohio. Ware serves as an alternate during the competition.

The team members were selected based on their performance in the school-wide quiz bowl tournament. Four are returning members."

Harris and his team members are gearing up for the tournament.
"We practice two hours, four days a week," Harris said. "We have a good connection with each other and that really helps. We know each other's strengths and weaknesses. I feel we have a good shot at winning."

The team finished in the "elite eight" last year. Sandra Williamson serves as coach of the team. Ralph Brown, serves as tournament director; Dr. Dorothy Harris, campus coordinator; and Dr. Roselle Wilson, executive director.

HCASC has given students the opportunity to exercise teamwork and to network and establish long-term relationships with other contestants. During the competition, the initial field of 64 teams is pared down to 16 teams, of which 10 participate in a single-elimination playoff round until only the final four teams remain.

HCASC is the only competition of its kind and was established by American Honda Motor Co., Inc., in 1989. Since the inception of the program, more than 15,000 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students have participated, and Honda has awarded nearly $3.5 million in grants to HBCUs to improve campus life through facility improvements and increasing academic resources.