The Academic Excellence Challenge Team is a group of students from Neosho County Community College who compete against other students from Kansas Community Colleges in a scholar bowl format. Questions are written by instructors from community colleges in the various subjects that make up the general education requirements.

The students spend the year practicing in mock competitions between each other and in scrimmage competitions between other community colleges. The official competitions take place in the spring and consist of a preliminary, a regional, a sub-state, and a state final competition. Each year NCCC recruits a team of eight members to participate in the program.

For more information, contact: Sara Harris, NCCC, 800 W. 14th Street, Chanute, KS 66720, (316)431-2820, ext. 239, or e-mail sharris@neosho.edu

To be eligible to compete, students must be enrolled for at least six (6) semester hours of credit at the college for which they compete. A team member must have earned at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA, have completed no more than 72 semester hours, and may not have a college degree. A team member may participate for a maximum of two years.