The World Affairs Council of Harrisburg
thanks the following donors to the Academic WorldQuest Scholarship Fund

THE DEAN'S DIVERSITY COUNCIL OF PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

HARSCO CORPORATION

SHEETZ

THE HALL FOUNDATION


The World Affairs
Council of
Harrisburg


2012 ACADEMIC WORLDQUEST Competition

8:30 a.m. registration
March 24, 2012


Elizabethtown College
Leffler Chapel

Important Dates


Feb. 1, 2012 -- End of $15 team registration

March 1, 2012 -
WACH WorldQuest registration is due


March 24, 2012 -
WACH WorldQuest Competition


April 21, 2012 -
National WorldQuest Competition

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Academic WorldQuest is a Flagship Program of the World Affairs Council network. The game was invented by the Charlotte Council and is now widely played at the adult and high school levels around the country. It is a team game testing competitors' knowledge of international affairs, geography, history and culture. The World  Affairs Council of Harrisburg hosted its first local competition in March 2011.

ABOUT THE COMPETITION  
The competition is played among 4-person teams that answer rounds of  questions projected by PowerPoint onto a screen. The questions test their knowledge of current affairs, world leaders, geography, recent history, flags, international organizations, countries, regions, the world economy, culture, religion and more. A full competition is 100  questions, 10 rounds of 10 questions. The team with the highest number of right answers is the winning team.

A team consists of four students.  They can be freshman, sophomores,  juniors or seniors.

If you would like more information about forming a team or participating, please email us.

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All teams must be registered by March 1, 2012

Please submit this form either by email or snail mail by that date.
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There is a minor registration fee involved with Academic WorldQuest. The fees are designed so that the more teams a school registers, the lesser the cost. The fees are as follow:

Registration Costs
REDUCED PRICE FOR ANY TEAM THAT REGISTERS BEFORE FEB. 1 - $15 PER TEAM

AFTER FEB. 1, 2012


Schools with one team --  $30

Schools with two teams -- $25 per team

Schools with three teams -- $20 per team

Schools with four or more teams -- $15 per team

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2012 Competition Categories:
US Education: Competing Globally
US Energy Policy
US Economic Competitiveness
Middle East
Afghanistan/Pakistan
China
NATO
UN Millennium Development Goals: Child Health
Azerbaijan
Current Events


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Would you like to help us plan our 2012 competition?

The committee is just forming! email wacharrisburg@gmail.com for more information
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Academic WorldQuest 2011


More than 50 students from throughout Greater Harrisburg participated in the March 19 contest at
MESSIAH COLLEGE
representing the following schools:

Cumberland Valley
Harrisburg Academy
Hershey High School
Sci Tech High School
Susquehanna Township



And the 2011 Winner of Academic WorldQuest is:

THE THURSDAY CLUB!



Megan Ireland, Maia Paddock, Jeff Rohrer and Aaron Match

The Thursday Club is a group of home-schooled students who meet each Thursday to socialize and discuss literature, the arts, politics, etc.  They will compete against students from all over the country on April 30 in Washington, D.C., at the national WorldQuest competition sponsored by The World Affairs Councils of America!










 
 
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