Brain Bowl
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Brain Bowl is an academic competition in which Florida Community College teams are pitted against one another. Teams consist of up to six players, only four of whom play at any given time. A moderator reads questions from four subject areas including humanities, mathematics, natural science and social sciences. Each area is equally represented. A buzzer system is used to identify the player who answers first. Ten points are awarded for correctly answering the tossup question. The team winning the tossup is eligible to win up to 30 points for correctly answering the follow-up bonus questions. After 24 questions, the team that has accumulated the most points wins the game. No questions about popular culture or media are used in Brain Bowl.
Florida Brain Bowl Purpose
The purpose of Brain Bowl competition is to recognize outstanding student academic achievement, to help focus community interest on academic excellence in Florida community colleges and to help foster relations among faculty and students as they work together on this joint project.
History and Scholarships
Florida Brain Bowl was created in the fall of 1981 and until 1991 was a joint project of the Florida State Department of Education and the Florida College System Activities Association (FCSAA). Since 1991, the FCSAA has been the sole sponsor of the Brain Bowl. After initially gaining the approval and support of the Florida Community College Council of Presidents, the fall of 1981 was spent developing rules and organizing regional competitions. The cash awards for the initial year came from a combination of funds from the legislative appropriation that established the Program to Recognize Initiative and Distinction in Education (PRIDE) and more than $12,000 that the founders of the Brain Bowl competition were able to raise from private sources. Since its inception in 1981, the Florida Community Colleges Brain Bowl competition has involved more than 1,000 students in regional and state competitions. During that time, the Florida Department of Education has awarded more than $80,000 to community college students who have competed in these tournaments. Private colleges and universities, as well as state supported universities, have made available almost $1 million worth of scholarship opportunities. Each year the host school records the Championship match for future broadcast to the television viewers in the State of Florida.
Tournament History
Brain Bowl Tournament winners are: 1982: Florida State College at Jacksonville 1983: Florida State College at Jacksonville 1984: St. Petersburg College 1985: Miami Dade College -South Campus 1986: Seminole State College of Florida 1987: Miami Dade College -South Campus 1988: Florida State College at Jacksonville 1989: Broward College 1990: Broward College 1991: Broward College 1992: Broward College 1993: Broward College 1994: Valencia College 1995: Valencia College 1996: College of Central Florida 1997: Broward College 1998: Broward College 1999: Valencia College 2000: Tallahassee Community College 2001: Valencia College 2002: Pensacola State College 2003: Valencia College 2004: Northwest Florida State College 2005: Northwest Florida State College 2006: Broward College 2007: Northwest Florida State College 2008: Chipola College 2009: Chipola College 2010: Chipola College 2011: Chipola College 2012: Chipola College 2013: Chipola College 2014: Chipola College 2015: State College of Florida[1] 2016: State College of Florida 2017: Valencia College 2018: Chipola College 2019: Chipola College 2020: In 2020, there was no tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021: Valencia College 2022: Chipola College 2023: Chipola College
Florida College System Activities Association (FCSAA)
Teams
Panhandle Region Teams
Chipola College Gulf Coast State College Pensacola State College North Florida Community College Northwest Florida State College Tallahassee Community College Florida Gateway College (formerly Lake City Community College)
East Central Region Teams
Eastern Florida State College College of Central Florida Florida State College Jacksonville Lake-Sumter State College Santa Fe College Seminole State College of Florida
West Central Region Teams
Hillsborough Community College State College of Florida, Manatee–Sarasota Polk State College South Florida State College Valencia College St. Petersburg College Pasco–Hernando State College
Southern Region Teams
Broward College Florida Keys Community College Indian River State College Palm Beach State College Miami Dade College