[larrymcg421]

At the beginning, we were just meeting during "club time", a period the school dedicates during the middle of the day.

The first meeting was just getting to know the kids and what subjects were their strengths and weaknesses.

Most Quiz Bowl questions come from 4 main categories - History, Literature, Science, and Fine Arts. There are some other categories sprinkled in, such as Trash (Pop Culture/Sports), Religion, Myth, Current Events, etc.

As we are a STEM school, it wasn't a surprise that almost every player identified Fine Arts and Literature as weaknesses. To deal with this, I split the kids up into three groups, one to study Literature, one to study Fine Arts (Music), one to study Fine Arts (Visual). This was a noob strategy, and I would move away from it in year 2.