LADWP regional championship teams have the best record at the National Science Bowl compared to any other area or region in the nation. The teams have won four national titles and placed in the top five teams, nine of the past 13 years.
 
This year marks the 10th time that North Hollywood High School is competing in the National Science Bowl as the regional champion of the LADWP Science Bowl. The school won a national title in 2001 and placed second three times as well as receiving trophies for fourth and fifth place in other years. 

Teams from the LADWP Science Bowl that have won national titles in addition to North Hollywood are Van Nuys High School in 1995 and Venice High School in 1996 and 1997.

Science Bowl is a competition that follows the game-show format of the old GE College Bowl television series. Two teams of four students (each with an alternate team member) answer toss-up and bonus questions asked by a moderator. In Science Bowl, all the questions cover college level subjects such as physics, chemistry, earth and space science, calculus, trigonometry, and computer programming.  Some questions also cover currents events in math, science and technology.

This year 12,000 students from 1,800 high schools participated in the 67 regional qualifying competitions throughout the nation.  The U.S. Department of Energy created the National Science Bowl in 1991 to encourage high school students of all backgrounds to excel in math and science studies and to pursue careers in these fields. More than 100,000 students have participated in the program since its inception.
 
LADWP Science Bowl is one in a series of educational partnerships sponsored by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power that also includes the Youth Service Academy for "at-risk" students, Adopt-A-Schools, development and distribution of water, energy and environmental curricula and the Times in Education Program.  Further information about LADWP Education Programs can be received by logging on to www.ladwp.com and clicking on Community Involvement and then the drop down menu - LADWP in the School.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has provided utility services to residents and businesses of the city for more than a century. It is the nation's largest municipally owned utility.

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(Note to News Media:  The North Hollywood High School Science Bowl Team is scheduled to return to Los Angeles on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 4 p.m. on American Airlines Flight 247 at LAX.  Media wishing to interview team members may do so at Terminal 4 in the baggage claim area.  Parking is in structure 4. 

CONTACT
WALTER ZEISL
LADWP and National Science Bowl Media Team
(213) 923-6468 (cell)
or (301) 961-2854, 4-H Center,
from 5/1/08 to 5/6/08 at National Science Bowl