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Hey everybody! I'm hoping that this will be the official quiz bowl forum for Alabama's 2021-2022 competitions this year !

AIAA GHS is tentatively planning the in-person tournament listed below. We hope to hold it at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, but we haven't yet gotten final confirmation from UAH. They want to wait until after the new year to see what the COVID numbers look like. In any case, the number of teams we can accommodate will heavily depend on the number of classrooms available as well as the number of moderators and scorekeepers we can gather. Ideally, I would like to include a middle school division, but I'm not yet committing to that since I don't know if I'll have enough space and volunteers to support it. A lot of the volunteers will be AIAA members, but if there are any members of the quiz bowl community willing to help with this tournament, please send me an e-mail ([email protected]). I would love to have an ASCA member who can serve as a judge to handle protests. A stats person would also be great.

March 26, 2022
AIAA Rocket City Invitational
Type: Regular Season
Level: High School Varsity
Questions: IS-211A
Host: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Greater Huntsville Section (Huntsville, AL)
Contact: Robin Osborne
Registration priority will be given to teams from northern Alabama

Best Regards,
Robin

AIAA GHS will host the following in-person tournament:

AIAA Rocket City Invitational
Date: March 26, 2022
Tournament Time: Registration will be from 7:30 am - 8:00 am. We hope to finish by 4:30 pm.
Type: Regular Season
Level: High School Varsity
Question Set: NAQT IS-211A
Location: Business Administration Building at University of Alabama Huntsville
Host: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Greater Huntsville Section
Contact: Robin Osborne, [email protected]
Cap: 18 teams
Fee: $60 per team
Buzzer Discount: -$5 per buzzer set
Minimum fee per team: $45
Please make checks payable to AIAA GHS. You may pay on the day of the tournament.

Registration url: https://www.naqt.com/registration/field ... t_id=12661

***Registration priority will be given to teams from northern Alabama***

Only one team per school may register.

Awards:
The top teams will receive trophies and cash prizes to support their schools' Scholars Bowl programs.
The top 10 individual scorers will receive awards.

For teams that are in AL but not northern AL:
If you'd like your team to participate, send an e-mail to [email protected] and I'll put you on a separate list and you'll be offered a slot on a "first-come first-serve" basis if we end up having extra slots available. Please do not register if you are not in northern AL.

On Feb. 5, registration for the AIAA Rocket City Invitational will be open to any high school team in Alabama. I'm happy to say we have enough volunteers and classroom capacity to raise the cap to 18 teams. We're still restricting registration to one team per school.

Through the generous sponsorship of Jacobs Space Exploration Group and ERC, the top 4 teams will receive the following cash prizes for their schools' Scholars' Bowl programs:

1st: $1000
2nd: $750
3rd: $500
4th: $250

As of 2/13/22 there are only 4 slots remaining. Any team in Alabama is invited to register, but we're only allowing one team per school.

Here is the field:
https://naqt.com/go/field/12661

As of 3/13/22 there is one open slot for this tournament. Any Alabama high school or middle school team is invited to register, but again, we're only allowing one team per school.

On behalf of AIAA GHS, thank you to all the Alabama teams that participated in the Rocket City Invitational quiz bowl tournament held on Mar. 26 at University of Alabama Huntsville.

A summary of the event is posted on the AIAA GHS website:
http://www.hsv-aiaa-events.org/eMag%20A ... ummary.pdf

A shorter article will be published in the June issue of AIAA’s flagship magazine, Aerospace America, in the Bulletin Section.

Official NAQT tournament stats: https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/s ... t_id=12661

Best regards,
Robin

Another article about the Rocket City Invitational, published in the Bulletin Section of Aerospace America:
http://www.omagdigital.com/publication/ ... &ver=html5

Robin