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Meet this Week's Whiz Kids: The Memorial Middle School Cardinal Challenge Team
Memorial used a narrow loss in last year's Cardinal Challenge as motivation for this year's rematch
Patch Whiz Kid of the Week
- Who are the Whiz Kids?: The Cardinal Challenge Team
- Whiz Kids' Accomplishment: The 16 students on the team needed knowledge on subjects as disparate as the Iditarod, Rudyard Kipling, the cotton gin and Bristol Palin in a subway series against and .
- Whiz Kids' Key to Awesomeness: Overcoming setbacks. Ten of the 16 students on this team competed in the Cardinal Challenge last year and lost by a narrow margin of 10 points.
Instead of letting that deter them, they used that as fuel to study harder.
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Now they'll have a chance to show their stuff at the regional competition March 12 at John Carroll University
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