{"id":71361,"date":"2021-06-02T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/jdhs-students-secure-a-top-10-spot-in-national-ocean-science-competition\/"},"modified":"2021-06-02T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T06:30:00","slug":"jdhs-students-secure-a-top-10-spot-in-national-ocean-science-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/jdhs-students-secure-a-top-10-spot-in-national-ocean-science-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"JDHS students secure a top 10 spot in national ocean science competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s official — the New Squids on the Dock, the National Ocean Sciences Bowl team from Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé is one of the best in the nation.<\/p>\n

After clinching the top spot at the Tsunami Bowl, a regional ocean science academic competition, the team faced off against winners from the 20 other regional bowls and earned a spot in the top 10, taking the No. 2 spot in the science briefing round and earning a ninth-place overall finish in the national competition.<\/p>\n

“I’m really proud of them. It would be a big accomplishment in any year, but in this year, it’s really exceptional,” said Shannon Easterly, the team’s coach.<\/p>\n

The Consortium for Ocean Leadership sponsors the competition, which takes place each year and includes teams from high schools across the country.<\/p>\n

Swimming in the intellectual deep end<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n

The team celebrated the win with a pizza party as members await their prize, a new ocean sciences book.<\/p>\n

“It was nice to get together and celebrate how well the team did,” Easterly said.<\/p>\n

Easterly said that the team found ways to collaborate and prepare for the competition virtually throughout the season due to COVID-19 protocols that made in-person practice impractical. <\/p>\n

To comply with virus mitigation, the two-part competition took on a new, virtual approach.<\/p>\n

Rather than travel to a central location, teams competed on Zoom. The first portion included preparing for and participating in a mock congressional hearing as a science expert.<\/p>\n

To prepare for the mock briefing, the team was assigned a piece of proposed legislation to review. Each team member wrote 300-500 words representing the opinion of a different agency and presented the findings to a panel of judges in a mock hearing and answered questions.<\/p>\n

JDHS students win regional ocean science competition<\/ins><\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to vaccinations, team members got to sit together for that portion of the competition, Easterly said.<\/p>\n

The next phase involved a QuizBowl that each team member did from home.<\/p>\n

“It was pretty intense,” Easterly said.<\/p>\n

Easterly said the team consists of all rising seniors who plan to return to compete again next year.<\/p>\n

“I’m already looking forward to it,” she said.<\/p>\n

• Contact reporter Dana Zigmund at dana.zigmund@juneauempire.com or 907-308-4891.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Squids on the Dock hung tough through an unusual season <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":71362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75,223],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-71361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71361"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=71361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}