NJROTC team wins third-consecutive Brain Brawl
The plaque shows NC’s past 2 victories before they won for the third year consecutively.
NC/Harrison’s NJROTC’s Academic Brain Brawl team maintained their National Championship winning streak by beating 23 other schools from across the country in Annapolis, MD on Saturday, April 30th. The team expanded their previously held record by winning Nationals three years in a row.
(Pictured from left to right: Dawson Bowman, Tomas King, Alex Birchler, Andrew Kelly, & Jackson Fowler) The NC/Harrison Academic Brain Brawl team won Nationals three years running. The team practiced every week to make the win possible.
Not only did the NJROTC Brain Brawl team place first at nationals, senior Austin Birchler additionally won an individual award for “Brawl Star” for the second year in a row.
“Brain Brawl is just one of our many competitive style teams we have in ROTC, It’s like an academic college bowl style, we practice each Wednesday and Thursday each week, and we just prepare,” Birchler said.
While in Maryland, the team toured The United States Naval Academy, viewed a parade of The Brigade of Midshipmen, and spoke with midshipmen about the admissions process of the Naval Academy.
The Brain Brawl team competed in numerous subjects and won in all the areas, based off the Naval science curriculum: Maritime History, Physics, Chemistry, Seamanship, Oceanography, Meteorology.
“We had a target on our front and a target on our backs,” Commander Reeves said on the feeling of coming in as back-to-back champs.
Birchler, sophomore Dawson Bowman, junior Tomas King, Harrison senior Andrew Kelly, and freshman Jackson Fowler defeated the competition for the third time in a row at nationals. The NC/Harrison team worked hard for their well-deserved victory, and will look to defend their titles next year.
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