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For a brief moment, Quinton Smith wasn’t himself. The University of Maryland Eastern Shore senior history major and Richard A. Henson Honors student, known for his easygoing and calm demeanor, felt slightly out of place among a group of his peers. It was right before he and his fellow Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC) teammates, Kevin Armstrong and Victoria Casteel were about to…Read more UMES quiz bowl members experience growth in honors competition

UMES qualified to compete at the 2017 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge National Championship Tournament on April 8-11 in Torrance, Calif.  The national tournament is “a prestigious competition that showcases the academic prowess of the brightest students from America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities.” After seven qualifying tournaments held in early February, 48 of 76 teams…Read more UMES to compete in Honda Campus All-Star Challenge

For the third year in a row, a quartet of undergraduates will represent UMES next month at the 26th annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge National Championship Tournament. Teams from 48 of the nation’s historically black institutions will vie for a $50,000 institutional grant in the quiz competition Honda has sponsored since 1989. Seventy-six teams participated…Read more UMES qualifies to compete at Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Nationals in California

Students from 10 historically black colleges and universities put their minds to work at UMES for the 26th annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge. Dr. James White, the UMES Honda All-Star Challenge team coach says, “The game has evolved the game has gotten faster and it’s because the students are smarter.” Jonathan Wheeler, a member of…Read more UMES hosts Honda Campus All-Star Challenge

A quartet of UMES undergraduates placed third this past weekend in a qualifying tournament for the 2014 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, a performance that earned them an invitation to compete in the national tournament this spring. UMES Honda All-Star team 2014A team anchored by sophomore Mariah Dennis, who competed a year ago, senior Jonathon Weary,…Read more UMES team advances to Honda Campus All-Star nationals

While America’s athletes are going for the gold in Sochi, two teams of UMES students will be competing in trials for an “Olympics of the mind,” the Honda Campus All‐Star Challenge.  The event takes place Saturday, Feb. 15 at Morgan State University in Baltimore. The Honda Campus All-StarChallenge is a game of quick recall for…Read more UMES Honda Campus All-Star team readies for competition

While college basketball teams were competing for March Madness bragging rights, other highly gifted student were doing the same – just not on the basketball court. The UMES Honda All-Stars joined more than 320 college students from 64 HBCUs for a three-day academic competition that tested their knowledge, teamwork and speed. The Honda Campus All-Star…Read more UMES Honda Team reaches Elite Eight

(Salisbury, Md. Daily Times) PRINCESS ANNE – When University of Maryland Eastern Shore senior Matthew Lang arrived in Orlando, Fla. Last week, he was on a mission. A member of last year’s UMES Honda Campus All-Star Challenge team, Lang remembers losing to South Carolina State University in the quarterfinals of the national academic competition for…Read more UMES savors high finish in challenge