WorldQuest 2008......Let the game begin!
Hello there! What school are you from?
The portal to show what you know about the world!
Welcome to WorldQuest Global Knowledge Competition 2008!!!
.....brought to you by the World Affairs Council of Oregon AND
Lewis and Clark College!
Co-Emcee, Phil Busse, gets the ball rolling.
International student monitors stand ready for action!
Hello from Kenya!
A very sophisticated team from Beaverton High School
Arts & Communication Magnet Academy
The Dalles Wahtonka High School
Columbia River High School
International students wisk team answer pages off to the “scorers”.
Judges stand ready for any challenges. Just try them.
Creswell High School
Dallas High School
Going over the answers! Whew, we got that one right!
Co-Emcee and candidate for City Council, John Branam, begins Round 5 on Elections!
Brookings-Harbor High School
Coaches contemplating and “sweating it out” with their teams.
Union High School
Grant High School
Gresham High School
Blanchet Catholic High School
Benson Polytechnic High School
The Dalles Wahtonka
Scappoose High School
Cleveland High School
Columbia Pacific AFS Team of International Students
Vancouver Home Connection
Brookings Harbor High School
Reynolds High School
A delicious Brazilian meal awaits.
A well deserved global feast for hungry coaches and teams.
Sharing meals with international students from JAPAN.....
MOROCCO & ETHIOPIA.....
UGANDA....
MONTENEGRO......
GHANA.....
KENYA.....
RUSSIA.....
SWITZERLAND and many more countries! International guests were from Portland State, Lewis and Clark, AFS and the community.
A chance to stretch and move at three South American Cultural Stations.
A fascinating demonstration of capoeira martial arts by Grupo de Capoeira Regional do Brazil.
A master musician and instrument maker from Grupo Condor shares his craft.
Let the Children Dance had everyone doing the Samba in record time!
Opps!
Happiness is the Samba!
Waiting for the results after the final round on the Organization of American States.
This is serious!
Waiting......
and waiting!
We have our winners!
Thanks go to the organizers for their hard work!
Gourd carving from Peru wait to meet their new owners!
Scott Garrison of Education, Travel and Culture presents the awards!
Third Prize goes to......
Arts and Communications Magnet Academy
CONGRATULATIONS!
Second Prize goes to......
Corbett High School
CONGRATULATIONS! This team will compete in the National Academic WorldQuest in Washington DC in April!
First Prize goes to.....
Beaverton High School!
CONGRATULATIONS! This team will travel to China this summer with Education, Travel & Culture!
Group portraits
Then goodbye. We all leave much richer for the experience!
A million thanks goes to our WorldQuest heros....the coaches!
This wonderful event would not have been possible without the generosity of the Mark Spencer Hotel, Northwest Airlines, The Wyss Family Foundation, the Juan Young Trust, and Lewis and Clark College. We thank them all from the bottom of our hearts!
