On Saturday, March 1, the team from Chipola College of Marianna, Florida won the 2025 NAQT Community College Championship Tournament, to win back-to-back national championships. Chipola defeated the A team of Murray State University of Tishomingo, Oklahoma in an advantaged final. Chipola won the only match of the final, 370-200, to complete an undefeated run through the field and win the tournament. This was Chipola’s fifth CCCT championship, and sets up the possibility of their second three-year run in 2026. Chipola won the 2011, 2012, and 2013 championship, as well as last year’s competition. The A team of Murray State College of Tishomingo, Oklahoma finished second with a record of 10-2. The A team of Valencia College of Orlando, Florida finished third at 9-2. Murray State’s B team finished fourth with a 8-3 record. Quiz bowl is a competitive, academic, interscholastic activity for teams of four students. Quiz bowl teams use buzzers to answer questions about science, math, history, literature, mythology, geography, social science, current events, sports, and popular culture. The matches feature a blend of individual competition and team collaboration, since no individual player is likely to be an expert in all subject areas. Participation in quiz bowl both reinforces lessons from the classroom and encourages players to develop new intellectual interests. The 24 teams competed in four pools of six and then the top teams were placed in a championship pool of eight, and played round robin matches against the other teams in the championship pool. Chipola was led in scoring by Captain Devin Tharp, whose 50.00 scoring average placed seventh in the field and on the All-Star team for the tournament. Sophomore John Maupin also placed on the All-Star team with a 35.61 scoring average. Sophomore Cade Foxworth, and freshman Jeremy Scurlock both finished in the top 20 in scoring, aiding Chipola’s balanced attack. The leading scorer for the tournament was Dalton Stults of Northwest-Shoals Community College of Alabama, who had a scoring average of 83.96. Since 2002, NAQT has awarded a championship for the top Community College quiz bowl team. After their performance on Saturday, the top three teams from the Community College Championship will play again in April in Chicago at the NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament. Those squads will join 60 four-year colleges and universities in competing for the championship. The full results of the tournament are available at https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=16003 Chipola Wins Back-To-Back Quiz Bowl National Championships Chipola College Student Support Services and TRIO Society hosted Chipola College Transfer Day 2025, bringing together university representatives, faculty, staff, and students to explore transfer opportunities and academic pathways. The event provided Chipola students with valuable information about continuing their education at four-year institutions. Chipola College SSS Hosts 2025 Transfer Day
Chipola’s Honors Program recently welcomed another guest speaker- Chipola Alumnus Dr. Laura Davis! Dr. Laura Davis, a dedicated physician with a general practice at Blountstown TMHTallahassee Memorial Hospital, has established herself as a committed healthcare professional and community leader. Her journey in the field of medicine began at Chipola College, where she was an active member of the Honors Program. Chipola Alumnus Dr. Laura Davis Speaks to Honors Program Chipola College’s Welding and Building Construction Programs have partnered with Eastern Shipbuilding out of Panama City to build another artificial reef! A design plan was submitted and the students from each of these programs went to work building this SUBMARINE! This isn’t the first artificial reef program that Chipola has been a part of. Back at the end of 2022, Chipola was one of several technical schools in the area that built an artificial reef. That reef is currently located 23 miles off the coast of Panama City, FL. See the screen shot for the location. Great job to the Welding & Building Construction Teams for taking on REAL WORLD projects to teach our students REAL SKILLS! Chipola’s Welding and Building Construction Programs Build Submarine
Chipola College is an Equal Access/Equal Opportunity Institution Chipola Employees of the Month Adam Bowen is Chipola’s Career Employee of the month for March. Adam Bowen is the Distributed Computing Analyst in the Information Technology Department and has worked at the college since 2020. Pictured from left, are: Chipola President, Dr. Sarah Clemmons and Adam Bowen. Arlene Davis has been selected for the Chipola College Faculty/ Administrator/Other Professional Award of the month for March. Arlene Davis is the Dean of the School of Business & Technolo-gy and has been employed at the college since 2022. Pictured from left, are: Chipola President, Dr. Sarah Clemmons and Arlene Davis. #11 Indians defeated Tallahassee State, 62-57, to stand alone as the Panhandle Conference Champions. Chipola Women and Men are the #2 seeds in the FCSAA/Region VIII Tournament, March 12-15, at Raider Arena, in Niceville. They will both face the #7 seeds Miami Dade Women & Men. The Ladies play Wednesday at 1 PM and the Men play Thursday at 1 PM. Good luck!