{"id":1488,"date":"2014-02-14T11:21:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2023-01-31T22:43:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:43:55","slug":"umes-honda-campus-all-star-team-readies-for-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/umes-honda-campus-all-star-team-readies-for-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"UMES Honda Campus All-Star team readies for competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While America\u2019s athletes are going for the gold in Sochi, two teams of UMES students will be competing in trials for an \u201cOlympics of the mind,\u201d the Honda Campus All\u2010Star Challenge.&nbsp; The event takes place Saturday, Feb. 15 at Morgan State University in Baltimore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Honda Campus All-StarChallenge is a game of quick recall for students of America\u2019s Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Now in its 25th year, more than $7 million in grants have been awarded by Honda to participating HBCUs and nearly 100,000 students in 22 states have participated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am proud to say that UMES has made the cut twice in this competition,\u201d said Dr. James White, team coach and UMES\u2019 associate vice president of student life and enrollment management. \u201cWe intend to compete in this preliminary round and earn a spot to represent UMES with Hawk Pride at the National Championship Tournament in Los Angeles in April.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/01\/Honda-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/01\/Honda-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/01\/Honda-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/01\/Honda-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/01\/Honda-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/150\/2023\/01\/Honda-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Left to right: UMES\u2019 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Club members, from left, are:  Jonathan Wheeler, Evan Bryant, Mariah Dennis, Jonathan Weary, Michel\u2019le White, Courtney Rhoades, Aleaya Bowie, and Jenny Porch.  Rhoades, Bowie, and Porch will compete in this weekend\u2019s qualifying tournament in Baltimore. (Photo courtesy of Honda)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty-eight teams from qualifying tournaments will advance to the National Championship, White said.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over $300,000 is at stake this year, with the champion HBCU earning a $50,000 grant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 48\u2010team field will be announced Feb. 20 during a live webcast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHonda would like to wish good luck to all the HCASC teams attempting to qualify for the National Championship tournament this weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The journey started at the beginning of the school year and has included long hours of hard work, practice and study, in addition to your regular academic course load,\u201d said Stephan Morikawa, assistant vice president for corporate community relations, American Honda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While America\u2019s athletes are going for the gold in Sochi, two teams of UMES students will be competing in trials for an \u201cOlympics of the mind,\u201d the Honda Campus All\u2010Star Challenge.&nbsp; 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&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/umes-honda-campus-all-star-team-readies-for-competition\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">UMES Honda Campus All-Star team readies for competition<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1559,"featured_media":1489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}