The Mount Pleasant High School team participates in the Comcast Academic Challenge Quiz Bowl, a competition between all high schools in the State of Delaware. 

Although a qualification test is given at the beginning of each school year, we do not eliminate anyone from the team who wants to participate.

Many of the tournaments allow multiple teams, so we would love to have everyone who's interested to come on out

Membership on the team provides the opportunity for students to compete with students from other schools in a display quick recall of information.  The Academic Bowl is broadcasted on a local cable television channel on Comcast.

Mount Pleasan'ts Academic Bowl team finished as the 1st runner-up in the 2008 Comcast Academic Challenge.  Mount's team had to play 13 matches (the most of any of the 25 high schools who participated in the statewide competition) in order to reach the final against the Charter School of Wilmington (ranked 5th in the United States by NAQT).  Mount Pleasant's team of Zach Leonard, Emily Loney, Peter Andrews, Dan Barnes, Aaron Gertler Dan Warner, Alexy Shiklomanov, and Haley Hirzel won $2,500 in college scholarships. 

The competition is scheduled to be aired on Comcast Cable Channel 73.  Beginning on March 10, Comcast will make the matches available ON DEMAND. 

The schedule for Mount's matches are:
Wednesday, March 5 - 7:00 PM
Thursday, March 6 - 7:00 PM
Friday, March 7 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, March 8 - 7:00 PM
Sunday, March 9 - 3:00 PM and 3:30 PM

With the final competition of the 19th annual Comcast Academic Challenge of Delaware concluding on February 24, Comcast is proud to announce the winner. Charter School took home the grand prize -- $5,000 in scholarship money for the school and an expenses-paid trip to the national tournament in Washington, D.C. This is the fifth year in a row that they've won the competition.

St. Mark's High School, also of Wilmington, Finished as the first runner-up, earning $2,500 in scholarship money. Additional teams who competed are:
2nd runner-up and winner of a $500 scholarship – Archmere Academy (Claymont)
3rd runner-up and winner of a $500 scholarship – Sanford School (Hockessin)
4th runner-up and winner of a $300 scholarship – Mt. Pleasant High School (Wilmington)
5th runner-up and winner of a $300 scholarship – Caesar Rodney High School (Camden)

The Comcast Academic Challenge of Delaware is a scholastic competition where area public and private high schools vie for scholarship money, academic prowess, and the chance to compete at the national level and recognition. Schools have their best and brightest pupils put to the test with questions related to math, science, history and other topics. A total of 22 Delaware schools took part in this year's competition.

Comcast has been the sole sponsor and organizer of the competition for ten years. It is an educational initiative organized by the Comcast Delmarva government affairs team, which recruits the schools, organizes the month-long competition, staffs the competition events and produces the accompanying championship video, in addition to providing the scholarship prizes.

The championship will be available for viewing on Comcast. In Kent and Sussex Counties , it will air on CDN (Comcast Delmarva Network) on channels 21 and 17, respectively. Two matches will air each night from 8-9 PM on March 7-11. In New Castle County, the series will air on channel 73 from 7:30-8:30 PM on March 5-9.

Comcast Digital Cable customers will also be able to watch the championship ON DEMAND starting March 12. It will be available in the "Get Local" folder and is free to view.

Comcast also honored long-time Comcast Academic Challenge host and supporter Dave Skocik during today's awards presentation. The competition's title prize is now known as the "Comcast Academic Challenge of Delaware David V. Skocik Championship Trophy."