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The college’s 15th annual Viking Challenge was held on Wednesday evening, Apr. 13, in the BTC Meeting Rooms, with 11 local high schools sending teams:<\/p>\n
Academy of the Holy Names<\/p>\n
Albany High School<\/p>\n
Berlin High School<\/p>\n
Lansingburgh High School<\/p>\n
Maple Hill High School<\/p>\n
Middleburgh High School<\/p>\n
North Warren High School<\/p>\n
Tamarac High School<\/p>\n
Troy High School<\/p>\n
Waterford-Halfmoon High School<\/p>\n
Watervliet High School<\/p>\n
The winners were:<\/p>\n
First Place–Tamarac<\/p>\n
Second Place–Lansingburgh<\/p>\n
Third Place–Watervliet<\/p>\n
The first-place school received a Netbook donated by Lenovo and each of the three team members received a $500 scholarship to attend Hudson Valley.<\/p>\n
All members of the three winning teams also received scientific calculators donated by Jim LaGatta and each of the three teams received Encyclopedia Britannica Reference software donated by Mark Welcome of Interactive Solutions.<\/p>\n
The Office of School Programs wishes to acknowledge and thank all of the following supporters of our annual event:<\/p>\n
Vice President LaGatta for his continued support<\/p>\n
Dr. Carolyn Curtis and the Office of Academic Affairs<\/p>\n
Ann Carrozza and the Faculty Student Association<\/p>\n
Eric Kiel, Scott Freedman and Jason Bourdeau<\/p>\n
Anthony Salamone<\/p>\n
Andrea Hotaling and Chartwells<\/p>\n
And continued thanks to our Viking Committee:<\/p>\n
Sue Agan<\/p>\n
Lois Fitzpatrick<\/p>\n
Chris Helwig<\/p>\n
Scott Hathaway<\/p>\n
Mark Petersen<\/p>\n
Sandy Reizen<\/p>\n
Jim Zubrick, the Challenge Master<\/p>\n
Special thanks to our Viking, Vonnie Vannier!<\/p>\n
Eleven area high schools participated this year.<\/p>\n
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