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Electricity filled the Warsaw Community High School Career Center Gym Thursday.
No, it wasn't a thunderstorm - it was the Warsaw Academic Super Bowl Invitational.
Students from 17 high schools competed in fine arts, social studies, mathematics, English, science and an interdisciplinary category. Each category had 25 questions.
The high school students had to answer such questions as: "Two resistors with values of 6.0 ohms and 12.0 ohms are connected in parallel. This combination is hooked in series with a 4.0 ohm resistor. What is the over-all resistance of this combination?" (The answer: 8 ohms).
Approximately 325 high school students competed in the Academic Super Bowl.
Winning teams in each category received ribbons. The over-all winners received plaques.
Bethany Christian and Penn High School tied for first and NorthWood was third.
Winners in each category were:
Fine arts - NorthWood, first; Bethany Christian, second; Concord, third. Social studies - Penn High School, first; Bishop Dwenger, second; Bethany Christian, third. Math - Warsaw, first; Wawasee and Penn high schools tied for second. English - Penn, first; Fairfield, second; Columbia City, third. Science - NorthWood, first; Penn, second; Northridge, third. Interdisciplinary - NorthWood, first; Columbia City, second; Bethany Christian, third.
Other schools' teams competing included Bremen, Garrett, Goshen, Jimtown, Mishawaka, North Miami and Plymouth.
