1. Academically Speaking
By Philip Ruiz and Suvan Bhat
Nutley Talent
Yantacaw School

2. Academically Speaking is a trivia competition for 5th and 6th graders
Academically Speaking is a trivia competition for 5th and 6th graders. Each town in Essex county that participated in it assembled their team of 5 to 7 participants.
Each team puts up 3 of their students (one of them being the captain) up to battle against the other team and tries to win the contest.
The teammates were notified during their Nutley Talent classes about the competition, and started to practice during lunch, as well as after school.
What is it ?

3. Nutley’s Team

4. Nutley’s Team (continued)
Our team consisted of 7 students from 3 of the 5 schools in Nutley. They are as follows:
Radcliffe School: Ian Brown(captain),
Christian Roser
Washington School: Sarah Takhim
Yantacaw School: Krishna Desai
Suvan Bhat
Jake Shoemaker
Philip Ruiz(manager)
Coach: Mrs. Woods- Murphy (Nutley Talent teacher)
Assistant Coach: Sebastian Ruiz
Nutley’s Team (continued)

5. The Rules Round1: - 4 minutes- 30 questions - May interrupt
- Buzzer round
- Only the person who signals may answer
- No discussion permitted
- +10 correct -5 incorrect
Round 2:
- 1 ½ minutes- 10 questions
- Discussion permitted
- +10 correct -10 incorrect
- Passed and incorrect questions not available to the other team
- 50 point bonus for all questions answered correctly before 1 ½ minutes
Round 3:
- Discussion is permitted
- +20 correct -20 incorrect
- Passed questions are available to the other team
- +50 bonus
- Incorrect questions not available to the other team
The Rules

6. The Rules (continued) Team Presentations(welcoming speech)
Substitutions
Round 4
- 1 ½ minutes- 10 questions
- Discussion permitted
- +20 correct -20 incorrect
- +50 bonus
- Teams may double
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- Incorrect and Passed questions available [+ or – 20] May discuss on pickups
Round 5
- 4 minutes- 30 questions
- Incorrect questions available IMMEDIATELY (Only the person who signals may answer)
- Interrupted questions answered incorrectly will be read in their entirety for the other team
- Buzzer round
The Rules (continued)

7. The Range of Questions The questions ranged from: History Science Math
Social Studies
Current Events
Geography
The Range of Questions

8. First Round-
Bloomfield vs. Nutley

9. Our team was down early but came back and pulled away to beat Bloomfield by about 200 points.
Our win in Round 1 advanced us to Round 2 vs. Livingston.
First Round- Results

10. Second Round- Livingston vs. Nutley

11. We lost by a small margin of 30 points against Livingston.
We were eliminated from the tournament but we came in 3rd place in Essex county.
We had a great experience and Nutley put up a good fight.
Second Round- Results

12. Thank you very much Mrs. Woods-Murphy for believing in our knowledge.
Thank you Sebastian Ruiz for using your time, knowledge, and experience in assisting us.
Thank you to the parents who let their kids come to practice.
Thank you Mrs. Barton, for preparing and organizing the competition.
Thank you John Mccolough for moderating the event.
Thank you also to our superintendent, Mr. Lazovick and our assistant superintendent, Dr. Gina Villani, for your supporting this wonderful program.
Special Thanks

13. Farewell