State College Knowledge Masters

State High's Academic Quiz Team

2000 NAQT High School Champions
2000 PACE National Scholastic Champions

Welcome to the web home of the State College Area High School Knowledge Masters! This web page is newly come into the world, and like all small things (i.e. babies, Ewoks, mosquitoes, and small children) it will have to undergo an incredible metamorphosis to be truly as pleasing and useful as I would like.

Who We Are:

The State High Knowledge Masters is a school-sponsored club dedicated to the pursuit of all knowledge. But we do not pursue that precious stuff purely for noble and high-minded purposes. Oh, no. We are out for blood.

If you wish to join us in this deadly quest, simply show up in room 153 South (or in South L.E.) on almost any Wednesday or Friday after school. For more information, talk to Mrs. Gittings, or Ms. Wells, or any member.

Because of our undying appetites for new knowledge and new blood, we compete in pretty much every event and every quiz-style format we can find and fund. That includes the Knowledge Masters Open (from which we take our name,) NAQT and PACE tournaments, It's Academic Tournaments, National Science Bowl, and National Ocean Sciences Bowl. Our school also has a separate Academic Decathlon team and Science Olympiad team, both having significant overlap with KM. We know that some formats are much more equal than others, but what can we say? we just can't stop hitting the buzzers. We're all adrenaline addicts.

What's new on the site:

I have posted our site to many search engines. In a week or two, it should start to show up. . .

Also, thanks to some help from Brian Victor, we now have a functioning and blessedly simple web counter, as well as a sanely arranged navbar! Thanks Brian!

If anyone from the club WANTS TO SET UP A LISTSERVE or HAS TIDBITS TO CONTRIBUTE to the lexicon or wishes to DEVOTE THEIR ARTISTIC SKILL to the site layout or is SIMPLY SKILLED IN WEB DESIGN, I would love to have your input and assistance. And I really do want to know how people like the site, so please do email me. (Alternatively, you could just tell me at practice next Wednesday.)

BY THE WAY, I have not yet had any applications for foppishness points! This is (of course) a great honor. . . DON'T be LEFT OUT!

COMING ATTRACTIONS:

• More useful links, more useless lexicography (always)
• Upgraded format (once I learn some more about web page design & so forth -- or somebody else decides to take pity on me and help out. . . )
• More pix from Julia, spiffier design -- does anybody have a decent graphics program who could formulate some kind of simple overall layout for the page??
• A sponsors page? An alum page? A GUESTBOOK?
• a constitution?? :)
• more photos gathered from around the web and scanned in from the albums of the proletariat
• a listserve/bulletin board of some sort for team and alum communication
• Any other suggestions?

No doubt I am being overly optimistic about this site. But, "in the long run, men [and women] hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high."

(Susannah will award foppishness points to team members who correctly trace her quotations, and post standings on the site. NO RANDOM GUESSING. My inbox is too full already. If suspected of random guessing, you will be made to copy the quotation 100 times in teriyaki sauce, using a wet noodle. While listening to CD's of Bob Dylan performing a cappella. Oh, yes, I can be that cruel.) [an error occurred while processing this directive]