{"id":4021,"date":"2015-01-30T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/?post_type=news&p=4021"},"modified":"2015-01-30T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T18:00:19","slug":"nc-blue-heron-bowl-chapel-hill-feb-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/nc-blue-heron-bowl-chapel-hill-feb-7\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Blue Heron Bowl: Chapel Hill Feb. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
Contact: Posted Friday, January 30, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n The 2015 Blue Heron Bowl will take place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Feb. 7.<\/p>\n This quiz bowl is focused on marine science topics. In the competition, two teams, each composed of four students and one alternate will square off against each other to answer marine science-related questions.<\/p>\n There will be a set of matches, each match consisting of six minutes of toss-up and bonus questions, followed by two team challenge questions and ending with a final six minutes of toss-up and bonus questions.<\/p>\n Students are coached by a marine science or general science teacher. Participating schools, listed by county, include:<\/p>\n Alamance<\/strong><\/p>\n Camden<\/strong><\/p>\n Dare<\/strong><\/p>\n Durham<\/strong><\/p>\n New Hanover<\/strong><\/p>\n Orange<\/strong><\/p>\n Wake<\/strong><\/p>\n Winners of the Blue Heron Bowl will be sent to the National Ocean Science Bowl<\/a> competition in April, this year in Mississippi. For more information on the national competition, go to http:\/\/nosb.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sponsors of this year\u2019s bowl are North Carolina Sea Grant, UNC-CH, UNC-CH Institute of Marine Sciences, Duke University Marine Lab, Discovery Diving and Seahorse Coastal Consulting.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n North Carolina Sea Grant: Your link to research and resources for a healthier coast<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2015 Blue Heron Bowl will take place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Feb. 7. Twelve North Carolina schools participating in the quiz bowl are from Alamance, Camden, Dare, Durham, New Hanover, Orange and Wake counties.<\/p>\n Contact:
\nJanelle Fleming, Blue Heron Bowl, 252-726-6323, <\/em>Janelle.fleming@gmail.com<\/em><\/a>
\nKatie Mosher, NC Sea Grant, 919-515-9069, <\/em>kmosher@ncsu.edu<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n
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\nJanelle Fleming, Blue Heron Bowl, 252-726-6323, Janelle.fleming@gmail.com<\/a>
\nKatie Mosher, NC Sea Grant, 919-515-9069, kmosher@ncsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1389],"tags":[],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"class_list":["post-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"yoast_head":"\n