The 2012 Edmonds-Woodway High School Hi-Q team

Edmonds-Woodway High School’s Hi-Q team began three months of intense academic competition Jan. 11, hoping to win the 2012 championship trophy.

The team is competing against 12 other Snohomish and Island county schools in Hi-Q, the nation’s longest-running academic quiz competition, run locally by Everett Community College.

In each competition, three local high school teams compete by answering questions from 13 categories. 

Points are accumulated throughout the season to determine which teams advance to the play offs. 

Edmonds-Woodway, which has won the academic quiz competition three times since Hi-Q started in 1976, begins this year’s competition at 8:30 a.m. Jan. 11 at Mariner High School.

The team will also compete at 9:05 a.m. Feb. 9 at Archbishop Murphy High School in Everett and 9:45 a.m. March 2 at Edmonds-Woodway High School.

Semi-finals will be held Feb. 26 and finals on March 3.

Team members include Emma Spence, Nicholas Dienst, Sabrina Bounds, Trent-Jilian A. Dorsey, Estella Jung, Katarina Nguyen, Dylan Bratz and Alex Springer. Their advisor is Dan Crist.

Hi-Q is in its 36th year of academic competition in the region.

Hi-Q is sponsored by Everett Community College, Fred Meyer stores, MountainCrest Credit Union, the Everett Community College Foundation, University Center of North Puget Sound and the participating high schools.

For more information about Hi-Q and the 2012 season, visit www.everettcc.edu/hiq or call EvCC High School Relations Coordinator Amy Hammons at 425-388-9073.