Environmental Club

Students from High School North’s Environmental Club recently competed in the Shore Bowl, the club’s first academic event. The relatively new organization at North, without a faculty advisor, was chaperoned by one of the participant’s parents, Arun Grover. Participating in the event were high school juniors Lily Fu, Rohan Grover (captain), Johannes Muenzel, and Vaidehi Pidaparti.##M:[more]##The seventh annual Shore Bowl was a tournament-style competition held on Saturday, February 25. It was run by the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University with a focus on biology, chemistry, physics, geology, navigation, geography, history, and literature relating to the ocean.The group competed in six preliminary rounds against six other high schools from New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. Each round included buzzer-style multiple-choice questions and two team challenge questions in which they had to answer analytical free-response questions. The team won the rounds against Hanover Park High School, Oakcrest High School, Nottingham High School, and Wyoming Area Secondary Center (which has placed in the top three every year since 2002). They lost the rounds against Seneca High School and Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science. They advanced to the quarterfinals, where they lost by a close margin to the Marine Academy of Science and Technology (a school that has placed in the top three every year since 2000).