Holy Redeemer Stingrays are champs of Science Quiz Bowl

They’ve been hitting the books for more than a year now and this week primary and high school students from across the Belize District faced off in a science competition dubbed the “Quiz Bowl”. According to organisers, the event is part of an educational outreach programme initiated by Marine Scientist, Dr. Caryn Self-Sullivan and the Hugh Parkey Foundation to stimulate interest in environmental education and conservation.

Caryn Self-Sullivan, Marine Scientist
“These students have been participating in field trips and using modules that the Foundation provided them after their teachers had done a teachers training event out at the caye. Then at the end of the year we have this Quiz Bowl as an evaluation tool to determine how much they remembered, how much they learned. We worked really closely with the Ministry of Education in developing this programme and so we have steering committee that we have several teachers and representatives from the Ministry of Education serve on and they helped us identify the best standard where the curriculum is a good match for the concepts that we’re trying to teach about the marine environment.”

At the end of the competition Holy Redeemer Stingrays beat their peers to win first place, five hundred dollars, a bundle of science books and a field trip to Hugh Parkey’s Spanish Bay facility. Our Lady of the Way Evangelical School from Ladyville placed second while the Muslim Community School had to settle for third. The boys and girls of Saint John Vianney School got an honourable mention for placing fourth. In addition to monetary gifts and educational material, all the top participants will have the opportunity to visit Spanish Bay.