Academic Quiz Bowl: Who, What, Where, When, Why and Everything Else

Who  Any undergraduate student  Can compete the summer after graduation  From any disciple  From any school or combination of schools - Collegiate Modified Organisms (CMOs)  Three to a team  Can bring up to 8 students from each school

What  Jeopardy type game  Categories and points  There are 8 different categories  Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Marketing, Management, Agribusiness & Finance, Resource & Policy, Quantitative, and Potpourri  There are 5 different point schemes  5, 10, 15, 20 and 25  Questions get harder as the amount of points increase

Where and When  Southern Agricultural Economics Association meetings first weekend of February  Different teams  Final round: Legends Competition  $100 travel stipend, Student reception  2015 Atlanta GA, 2016 San Antonio TX, 2017 Mobile AL, 2018 Jacksonville, FL  Agricultural & Applied Economics Association meetings in either late July or early August  School teams  Fees: AAEA registration fees  2015 San Francisco CA, 2016 Boston MA, 2017 Chicago IL, 2018 Washington DC

Why  Students really enjoy and like:  the competition  getting to know other students from around the country - networking  learning more about their selected profession  Must attend at least one session  studying the material and then seeing it later in a class  looks great on a resume  Summer internships

Everything Else Practice  Credits  Two hours a week  One hour on economic basics  Students write questions  Study materials  Mostly definitions from books  Buzzers, 2 Computers,  AAEA quiz bowl program (one round, step by step instructions)  University of Kentucky event Fundraising  RADA, raffle, dinner, silent auction

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