Program Update: National Ocean Sciences Bowl – April 2010

The 13^th Annual National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB^®) Final was held April 23-25, 2010 at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg and USF’s College of Marine Science in St. Petersburg, Florida.  Twenty-five high schools from around the United States competed in this year’s NOSB Finals Competition.  Marshfield High School from Marshfield, Wisconsin took home the top honors.

Here is a list of the top eight teams from the Finals Competition:

1^st Place – Marshfield High School – Marshfield, WI

2^nd Place – Marine Academy of Science and Technology (MAST) – Highlands, NJ

3^rd Place – Mission San Jose High School – Fremont, CA

4^th Place – La Jolla High School – La Jolla, CA

5^th Place – Punahou School – Honolulu, HI

6^th Place – Neah-Kah-Nie High School – Rockaway Beach, OR

7^th Place – Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology – Alexandria, VA

8^th Place – Arcadia High School – Arcadia, CA

Other awards were also given, including the James D. Watkins Sportsmanship Award, which is in honor of Admiral James Watkins who started the NOSB program in 1997.  This year’s winner was Langham Creek High School from Houston, Texas who demonstrated the best sportsmanship throughout the NOSB Finals Competition.

Also, Will Welch and Gwyn Welch with the help of Coach Patricia Cloutier from Contoocook Valley Regional High School in Peterborough, New Hampshire won the second annual NOSB “Living on the Ocean Planet” video contest.  The title of the winning video is “Ocean Exploration: The Future,” which will be displayed on the Oceans Today Kiosk at the Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall, among other places.

For the first time at the NOSB Finals Competition, the eOSB (electronic Ocean Sciences Bowl) was used in all competition rooms.  Caine Jette, a former NOSB participant and current Center for Ocean Engineering and Sea Grant student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, developed the software to replace the traditional NOSB notebook.  By 2013, all competition rooms at all 25 regional competitions will be using the eOSB.

The first, second and third place teams received all expense paid awards trips to experience ocean sciences in person in Massachusetts, North Carolina and California, respectively.  The fourth through eighth place teams received an array of prizes from digital cameras to marine science textbooks.

Related Posts:

• 2011 NOSB Scholarship Winners
• Program Update: National Ocean Sciences Bowl – May 2010
• 2010 NOSB Finals – Award Ceremony Video Slideshow
• The 13th Annual National Ocean Sciences Bowl
• Program Update: National Ocean Sciences Bowl – March 2010