If you’re looking for a club to test your knowledge and have fun while doing it, Scholar Bowl is the club for you. Several students get together every Tuesday after school to practice and prepare for competitions.

“[Scholar Bowl is] a competition with questions that range in variety of topics,” junior Madeline Belfonte said. “There’s topics about things you learn in school but also things like League of Legends, which is a computer game. So it’s all sorts of stuff.”

Preparing for competitions is not as easy as it may seem. Students who participate in Scholar Bowl work hard during practices in order to advance to more competitions.

“Our teachers are provided with the games that have all the questions from previous tournaments. We usually go through two of those at each of our practices,” Belfonte said. “We play with buzzers so it’s like a real competition, and we just split our team in half and play against each other in the library.”

The competitions are fairly challenging and require knowledge not only amongst the team, but also individually.

“Essentially, we’ll be asked a question, and if the other team buzzes in first then they get to answer. The first round is all individualized, you can’t converse with your teammates and you have to answer. If not, it passes to the other team,” Davis said. “The second round is worksheets. You and your teammates have 20 minutes to fill out 20 questions. The third round is just like the first round but with bonus questions. If we get it right, then the team confers on the bonus question.”

Scholar Bowl is also a great way to get involved and make friends too.

“I don’t think a lot of people know about [Scholar Bowl]. It actually is very competitive; it’s not just a game. It’s competitive and you go to tournaments,” Belfonte said.

Any student who is interested can join Scholar Bowl, as it is not an exclusive club. Junior Aaron Davis was pleasantly surprised when he answered a question correctly at his first practice.

“I only got one question right [the first time]. But I really had a blast, it was a really good time,” Davis said.

Students in Scholar Bowl have high hopes for the future of the club and are eager to spread the word.

“[We’re] really hoping to get more freshmen and sophomores to join in the next few years,” Davis said. “It’s all juniors right now, so we want some more underclassmen.”

Club sponsors Glory Fagan and Mrs. Schaeffer have coached many Scholar Bowl teams in the past at LHS.

“[Scholar Bowl] is a MSHSAA competition,” Fagan said. “I coached my first Scholar Bowl team in the 1980’s so it has been around a long time. We have a long history of very successful Scholar Bowl teams.”

There are several upcoming events for Scholar Bowl. The students and sponsors are excited to participate and hopefully advance in the competition.

“We have one more conference event in March, and districts in April,” Fagan said. “You win a few, you lose a few, and you come to expect that. We just want to win a few more than we lose.”

Scholar Bowl is a great way to get involved, and is open to any student who wants to join.

“It’s just like any other MSHSAA activity or sport, anybody can participate who meets the MSHSAA requirements, which has to do with their grade point average and things like that,” Fagan said.

If you are a student who is interested in joining Scholar Bowl contact any club member, Mrs. Fagan or Mrs. Schaeffer for more information.

“It’s definitely a really fun experience. I think a lot of people are scared to like it because they think they won’t know any answers,” Davis said. “If you just go and try, you’ll find out you know more than you think.”