{"id":3024,"date":"2012-03-19T11:45:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T15:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/16th-annual-viking-challenge-held-on-march-14\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T11:45:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T15:45:23","slug":"16th-annual-viking-challenge-held-on-march-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/16th-annual-viking-challenge-held-on-march-14\/","title":{"rendered":"16th Annual Viking Challenge Held on March 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The college&#8217;s 16th annual Viking Challenge:\u00a0 A Game in Trivial Pursuit was held on Wednesday evening, March 14, with 11 local high schools sending teams:<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem High<br \/>\nCobleskill-Richmondville<br \/>\nLansingburgh<br \/>\nMaple Hill<br \/>\nMiddleburgh<br \/>\nNorth Warren<br \/>\nSouth Colonie<br \/>\nTamarac<br \/>\nTroy<br \/>\nWaterford-Halfmoon<br \/>\nWatervliet<\/p>\n<p><strong>The winners were<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>First Place &#8212; Maple Hill<\/p>\n<p>Second Place &#8212; Bethlehem<\/p>\n<p>Third Place &#8211; -South Colonie<\/p>\n<p>The first-place school received a Netbook donated by Lenovo and each of the team members received a $500 scholarship to attend Hudson Valley.<\/p>\n<p>All members of the three winning teams also received scientific calculators donated by Vice President Jim LaGatta and each of the three teams received Encyclopedia\u00a0Britannica Reference software donated by Mark Welcome of Interactive Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of School Programs also wishes to acknowledge and thank all of the following for supporting our annual event:<\/p>\n<p>Vice President LaGatta for his continued support<br \/>\nVice President Dr. Carolyn Curtis and the Office of Academic Affairs<br \/>\nAnn Carrozza and the Faculty Student Association<br \/>\nEric Kiel, Scott Friedman and Jason Bourdeau<br \/>\nMara Lefebvre<br \/>\nAndrea Hotaling and Chartwells<\/p>\n<p>And continued thanks to our Viking Committee:<\/p>\n<p>Sue Agan<br \/>\nLois Fitzpatrick<br \/>\nChris Helwig<br \/>\nScott Hathaway<br \/>\nMark Petersen<br \/>\nSandy Reizen<br \/>\nJim Zubrick, the Challenge Master<br \/>\nAnthony Salamone<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:45:23 +0000 by\u00a0s.brownrigg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The college&#8217;s 16th annual Viking Challenge:\u00a0 A Game in Trivial Pursuit was held on Wednesday evening, March 14, with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accolades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}