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2011 Scholastic Bowl Workshop Schedule

Friday, October 21, 2011 Doubletree Hotel – 10 Brickyard Drive Bloomington, IL

A Real Pop-A-Looza! Orville Redenbacker, Eat Your Heart Out! The IESA is snappin’ and crackin’ it’s way into National Popcorn Month with some of the hottest workshops in the state!

9:00 – 9:30 am- Jump right into the grease! This is a day to celebrate the great IESA event of Scholastic Bowl! Grab your popcorn get registered, and come on in! Butter not be late! (During the Great Depression, popcorn was comparatively cheap and while other businesses failed, the poppers thrived.)

9:30- 9:45 am- Head Popper ________ will welcome you to this explosive day. Watch closely as our little kernel of an idea begins to fluff up into a day of learning, leaning on each other, and tasting the delights of Scholastic Bowl. (Popcorn pops into two basic shapes called “Mushroom” or “butterfly.”)

9:45- 10:45 am- Skillet I (They’ve found evidence of popcorn from 3600 B.C. in New Mexico, however not a single trace of Milk Duds or Cardinal ticket stubs) Okay, let’s see how this kernel pops as we watch a demo match and explore the logistics. We’ve got the popper, but who’s gonna pay for the corn? A workshop on the delicious skills of fundraising for your Scholastic Bowl team. Master popper Mike Hurley of Questions Galore will fill your sack with ideas. (The Chinese pop corn using a method causing all the kernels to explode at once. Whoopee!)

10:45- 10:50 am- The chemical breakdown: large quantities of popcorn necessitates volumes of liquid, which causes…well, you can figure that one out. Take a break, for gosh sakes!

10:50 - 11:50 am- Skillet II (During World War II sugar rations diminished candy production causing Americans to eat three times more popcorn than they had before.)

11:55- 12:55 pm- All popped out? Join us in the hallway for a lunchtime banquet where we promise much more than corn.

1:00- 2:00 pm- Skillet III (At least six localities in the U.S. claim to be “The Popcorn Capital of the World”, including Ridgeway, Illinois.) Okay, you’ve got the team, you’ve got the schedule, you know the rules…Now how do you make the little buggers pop? ________ of ___________ leads you through one hot session on motivating your team.

The fine art of Fine Arts strategies as well as the exquisite language of Language tactics will be tossed and salted a bit by Suzanne Pettyjohn of Rochester. She’s one slick operator.

So where else do you go once the kernel’s popped? Mike Hurley of Questions Galore leads you on a carnival ride of Resources, Study Guides, and Reference Materials. Please wipe your hands at the conclusion of this workshop.

2:00 - 2:05pm- The English who came to America in the 16th and 17th centuries learned about popcorn from the Native Americans. Word has it that it was at a Braves game. Speaking of which …7th-Inning stretch! Go for it!

2:05- 3:05 pm- Skillet IV (Popcorn…we’re not kidding..is listed as the official snack food of Illinois. ..perhaps because its so easy to ship to our imprisoned ex-officials) Suzanne Pettyjohn, the Rochester Flash, re-pops her presentation on Fine Arts and Language Strategies while singing the first seven verses of “Take Me Out to the Scholastic Bowl Game!”

If she’s not too pooped to pop again, Pam Helfers will repeat her explosive workshop on math strategies.

(The world’s largest popcorn ball was unveiled in October 2006 in Lake Forest, Illinois. It weighed 3415 pounds, measured 8 feet in diameter, and had a circumference of 24.6 feet. And who says you didn’t learn something today?)