Mrs. Dalton takes us inside the World 🌎 of Academic Competition here in Carroll County

  We have two “divisions” – VHSL Scholastic Bowl and MACC. 

Scholastic Bowl competes in Three Rivers and Region 3D. We are also members of the Southwest Virginia Academic Team Alliance. That’s a tournament circuit for any school in the Southwest VA footprint. 

MACC is a quiz bowl league with East and West divisions. West is Carroll, Grayson, Galax, Fort Chiswell, George Wythe, Rural Retreat, Bland, and Graham. East is Pulaski, Radford, Giles, East Mont, Blacksburg, Auburn, Floyd, Christiansburg, and Narrows.

Scholastic Bowl is a general knowledge game and the questions can come from any content. MACC divides into subject area teams: English, Math, Science, Social Studies, and All-Around. 

The kids can do both divisions. 

This is really the best kept secret at the high school, even though we do our level best to not make it a secret. It just takes a lot of convincing sometimes to get the kids to try it. Usually, once they play a match, they love it!

Each team has a coach:

English – Shannon Dalton

Math – Alex McMillian 

Science – Rachelle Rasco

Social Studies – Scott Sherrill 

All-Around – Scott Sherrill 

Scholastic Bowl – Paxton Berrier 

There are about 6-12 kids on each team, give or take, so it’s a big group!

We usually play in the auditorium for MACC home meets, but this season we will have to be in the cafeteria due to construction. Matches start at 6 pm. 

We are hosting the Three Rivers Scholastic Bowl tournament this Wednesday starting around 4:30 in the library. The region tournament is Saturday at Bassett.

Please feel free to come join us at any of our matches! It’s a great time. Pictures and video are allowed at MACC. Pictures allowed at Scholastic Bowl.

Hope that is a good introduction to the program!

Shannon

Thank You Ma’am for taking the time 🙏 and we hope you will continue to share the efforts of your groups of Students !