At The Middle School Level
For the 2010-2011 academic year, NAQT has introduced a program for middle school. There was a corresponding middle school national championship in 2011 held at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Chicago, called the MSNCT. The first middle school national champion was Kealing Middle School. They successfully defended their title at MSNCT 2012.
Read more about this topic: National Academic Quiz Tournaments
Famous quotes containing the words middle, school and/or level:
“Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“It’s a rare parent who can see his or her child clearly and objectively. At a school board meeting I attended . . . the only definition of a gifted child on which everyone in the audience could agree was “mine.””
—Jane Adams (20th century)
“I love thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)