{"id":1496,"date":"2015-01-31T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2023-01-31T22:43:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:43:18","slug":"umes-hosts-honda-campus-all-star-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/umes-hosts-honda-campus-all-star-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"UMES hosts Honda Campus All-Star Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From left, Courtney Rhodes (biology), Mariah Dennis (biology) and Jonathan Wheeler (computer science), all seniors, represented UMES during a preliminary round of the day-long quiz tourney won by the University of the District of Columbia. UMES is hoping to qualify for an at-large bid to the national event. (Photo by Valentine Anamelechi)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Students from 10 historically black colleges and universities put their minds to work at UMES for the 26th annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Wheeler, a member of the UMES team says, “I think I’m more comfortable up on stage. I’m confident in my ability to perform well under the pressure now, so it’s like cool under fire.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The challenge is a pretty intense quiz bowl where teams answer trivia questions. The questions can be any and everything; science, pop culture, religion, history, you name it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question is, how on earth do you study for this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mariah Dennis, another member of the UMES quiz team says, “Let’s say growing up as a kid you read a lot of books, then you’re really good at the literature. If you watched a lot of movies in Greek history, then you’re good in that category. You just brush up on what you know, it’s hard to gain a new skill.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If all else fails, UMES’ team has a default answer, “Johnson.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dennis goes on, “It’s a common last name there’s going to be some answer that’s Johnson.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The “Johnson trick” is something the team is hoping will take them to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The schools face off against each other in a series of rounds, with four being selected as the final winners, who will qualify to compete in the Honda national tournament in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While in California, they face off against 48 other schools, have the opportunity to take home a $50,000 grant, and rub elbows with Honda executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UMES played host to a Honda Campus All-Star Challenge regional qualifying tournament Jan. 31 that drew nine other teams, including competitors (pictured) representing Sojourner-Douglas, Howard, West Virginia State, Cheney, Bowie State, Central State, Lincoln (Pa.) and Morgan State. (Photo by Valentine Anamelechi.)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dr. White continues, “Honda is looking for bright students to build its cars and to run its company.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collaborating with Honda executives gives students a great opportunity to land a job post-graduation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if UMES doesn’t make the top 4, they can still make it to California through voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voting essentially will make UMES the “people’s choice,” but however it happens, UMES plans to make it there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Originally posted at WMDT.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1559,"featured_media":1499,"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-1496","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\/1496","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=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/hcasc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}