CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Eighth grade students from across the state will travel to the Capitol City Tuesday to compete in the sixth annual State History Bowl Championship.
The West Virginia Division of Culture and History is hosting the competition at the Culture Center on the State Capitol Complex. Activities begin with a general assembly at 9 a.m., followed by the first round of competition at 9:30 a.m.
Twenty-four teams of eighth graders from 18 schools in 13 counties will compete for the championship title. The students are from public, private and home-school education programs that compete on four-person teams.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, First Lady Joanne Jaeger Tomblin, and other officials will be on hand to moderate the event. The First Lady will ask the first round of questions at 9:30 a.m. The governor will host the second round at 11:30 a.m.
The tournament will include double-elimination rounds featuring questions about West Virginia state and county history, culture, geography, government, heritage, sports and tourism, prepared by the Archives and History staff.
According to a news release, the staff developed more than 1,800 questions for its online Quick Quizzes, so students could prepare before the tournament.
The West Virginia Division of Culture and History is an agency within the West Virginia Department of Education and the Arts with Cabinet Secretary Kay Goodwin.
Competitors include the following teams:
Andrew Jackson Middle School – Cross Lanes, Kanawha County
Belington Middle School – Belington, Barbour County
Cameron High School (2 teams) – Cameron, Marshall County
East Hardy Early/Middle School (2 teams) – Baker, Hardy County
Edison Middle School – Parkersburg, Wood County
Fairview Middle School – Fairview, Marion County
Frankfort Middle School – Ridgeley, Mineral County
Independence Middle School (2 teams) – Sophia, Raleigh County
Jackson Middle School (2 teams) – Vienna, Wood County
Keyser Middle School – Keyser, Mineral Couny
Madison Middle School – Madison, Boone County
Peterstown Middle School – Peterstown, Monroe County
Richwood Middle School – Richwood, Nicholas County
Shady Spring Middle School (2 teams) – Shady Spring, Raleigh County
Sissonville Middle School – Sissonville, Kanawha County
Summersville Middle School – Summersville, Nicholas County
Taylor County Middle School – Grafton, Taylor County
Wayne Middle School (2 teams) – Wayne, Wayne County