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High School - Middle School - Elementary School November 22, 2009Our subscription service now has 8 of the 20 sets for the year completed; if you join now, you will get all 8 of those at the same time and then pick up the other 12 through the rest of the school year. If you joined for the first half of this school year, your last subscription set will be December 14. The second half of the year will begin on January 18, 2010.Sign up today! Also, we will gladly pay you a referral bonus of up to $100 for any business you can bring us in our writing areas of: 1) patent applications (if you have an invention you’d like to patent, or if you are a patent lawyer with more work than you can currently handle, contact us!) 2) technical documentation (software manuals, technical reports, project proposals, R&D work, etc.) 3) projects for gifted and talented students (math leagues, Science Bowl, English/history bowls, etc.) 4) educational assessment projects, including test item development for standardized tests in all subjects September 12, 2009We offered free sample questions in a large nationwide e-mail campaign this week. If you have not received your free samples yet, drop us an e-mail today! Those that receive samples will get another e-mail from us in about 10 days reminding them that our subscription service will begin on October 5.June 17, 2009We congratulate another subscription-service member, Kentucky's Johnson County High School and their coach, Brenda Porter, for their victory over teams from 18 other states and the U.S. Virgin Islands at the 2009 National Tournament of Academic Excellence!We obviously can't guarantee every one of our 2009-10 subscribers equal success, but generally, the more questions you hear, the better a team you become--and our subscription service certainly helps with that! May 28, 2009For 2009-10, we offer free sample academic competition questions in the official state-sanctioned formats of:
Alabama (middle school and high school)Georgia (middle school and high school) (half-game only)Illinois (middle school, JV/frosh-soph and varsity) (half-game only)Kansas (varsity)Kentucky (middle school and high school) (partial sets only)Missouri (middle school and varsity) (half-game only)Ohio (OAC)Oklahoma (varsity) (half-game only) andPennsylvania (state Academic Competition)We also offer a sample varsity game in the 4-quarter "Questions Unlimited" format used in Indiana, Louisiana, New York and Texas.We even offer a partial oral round from the written/oral "Knowledge Bowl" format used in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Washington (both middle school and high school)! If your state/level is not listed above, we will send you our generic sample set of questions for that level upon request. May 20, 2009We heartily congratulate four of our subscription-service members for their successful seasons in 2008-09! First is Oakwood University of Huntsville, Alabama, which won the 2009 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge for the second straight year! Coach Dr. Rennae Elliott's team won 12 of their 13 games in the tournament, including two straight over North Carolina Central after an opening loss in their best 2-out-of-3 final series. Oakwood Captain Alesis Turner was one of the tournament's top scorers. Oakwood is one of only 4 schools ever to have repeated as champions. More information on the tournament is here. Second is Detroit's Country Day School, which won 4 tournaments in 2008-09, including the Michigan State Championship, Class B at Michigan State University and the All-Class State Championship at the University of Michigan! Coached by Eugene Jurkiewicz and Brad McNellen, the team was undefeated in their Inter-County League and took their perfect record for the season to the NAQT National Championship at the end of May, where they finished in a tie for 11th to 16th out of 192 teams. In addition, they won NAQT's pre-nationals "Goldfish" championship. More information on the Michigan State tournament is here. Third is Brophy Prep High of Phoenix, Arizona, which both purchased our subscription service and commissioned extra games from us in National Science Bowl format just to prepare them for the rigors of national competition. Brophy swept through their regional Science Bowl tournament and through the round-robin games at the national finals in Washington, D.C., reaching the double-elimination round of 16 and losing two games by just one question each. A phenomenal result for coach Cheryl Lenox and her students! Fourth is Jonas Clarke Middle School from Lexington, Massachusetts, whose commissioning of extra games from us in National Science Bowl format helped them reach the championship round in the 2009 National Science Bowl for middle-school students. Second place in the whole U.S. is a fantastic result for coach Dr. Mohammed Jaleel and his students! If your team can use hundreds of extra questions to prepare them for the rigors of serious academic competition, join our subscription service for 2009-10 when we start in the fall. Pick up our other available sets while you're at it, and talk to us about writing your league questions! May 19, 2009Avery Enterprises has purchased the entire mailing list of the former Patrick's Press. We will begin contacting their customers when school gets going again in August, and the new owner of patrickspress.com will include a note on that website to contact Avery Enterprises for all future competition needs. We welcome Patrick's Press customers into our fold and look forward to serving you for many years to come! May 11, 2009Avery Enterprises mourns the recent death of John Campbell, longtime owner of our competitor Patrick's Press of Columbus, Georgia. As a result of Mr. Campbell's passing, Patrick's Press will no longer produce competition questions of any type at any level, effective immediately. Plans are in place to have the Patrick's Press question-writing business completely shut down by the end of May 2009--though a buyer may be found who will still sell Mr. Campbell's large number of quiz books and study guides. If your school, league or organization has been using Patrick's Press for their quiz events, we invite you to try out Avery Enterprises questions for the 2009-10 school year! We also invite you to try out our subscription service for next year, which is very similar to Patrick's Press Accent on Academics. March 25, 2009We are now winding down for the 2008-09 school year. Our subscription sets are all done, so if you order them now, you'll get all the questions at once. Our Science Bowl sets are done for the year; middle schools now have 3 sets available. For high schools, we now have "easy", "medium" and "hard" Science Bowl sets available. This year, all Science Bowl national events will be held at the same time in the same general area, so make sure to get the extra practice sets you need for nationals success! If you need free samples, e-mail us and we'll get them right out to you. Our "free questions" website page is one of the top drivers to our website; we get more hits off the word "free" (when combined with "quizbowl", etc.) than anything else. We used to simply put questions up for free download, but this has one drawback-- we don't know who downloads them. In order to keep providing as many free samples in different formats as we do, we need to expand our marketing, and adding your e-mail address to our database when you request a sample set is a painless way to do it. Your address isn't given out; we simply use it for 3 or 4 e-mailings each year regarding our products, and you can drop out any time. Next fall, we plan to expand our website to make things easier to find, to expand our subscription service, to expand our product line, and to make more questions available for elementary and middle schools. So bookmark this site and come back when you start school in August/September to see what's new! December 8, 2008Merry Christmas! Our last subscription sets for the fall went out today. We will now take a break from that until January 19. If you signed up for a half-year subscription, we will e-mail you in January to encourage you to renew. Testimonials continue to arrive from satisfied customers; we have put them up on various pages of the site. If your high-school Science Bowl team needs some practice questions, we have a regional winner who swears by them; they just missed making the final rounds in Washington last year using our tournament set for extra practice, and their seniors are loaded for bear in 2009! We'll be creating 2 more high-school tournament sets (and 1 more middle-school set) after the holidays. We even have some middle schools ordering our high-school sets! For more info, phone us or e-mail us at the link below. Sometimes, we get calls from people saying, "I forgot to order questions for our event--and we start playing in 30 minutes. Can you help?" Absolutely! Many of our questions for 2008-09 are already written, so putting together a round for, say, this afternoon or tomorrow and e-mailing it to you is no problem. Though rush jobs like this do cost extra, you can literally pull our rounds out of the printer and start playing right away! October 8, 2008This week, we finished our first set of math tournaments for a set of school districts in New York; the problems are used in their qualifying events for the New York State Math League. We also picked up a quiz league from Indiana who had been putting their own tournament sets together by hand each year from a set of questions provided by one of America's largest suppliers. Once the league's coaches saw our better material in their own 4-quarter format (and that it comes to them already formatted in games), they had no qualms about switching over to us. If your league's still putting together games by hand, drop us an e-mail and let us save you from that chore! In the next week or so, we will be finishing our large set of Illinois Scholastic Bowl questions. The state is one of our largest customers, and the top teams there are as good as any in America. If your Scholastic Bowl league or tournament is coming up, we'll be happy to help you! Finally, our 2008-09 quizbowl subscription service (which brings you quality tossups or bonuses downloaded directly from our website) will begin next Monday, October 13. Sign up for this service today! August 20, 2008As we get ready for our September marketing blitz, we have added a set of lightning rounds (10 questions in 60 seconds) and a set of worksheets to our catalog. Lightning-round sets are used in the state formats of Indiana, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New York and Texas, along with individual tournaments in Missouri and other states. If your team commonly plays a lightning round in your games, pick up your set of 50 lightning rounds today! Worksheet rounds are used in the state formats of Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina and Ohio, along with individual tournaments in other states. If your team's league or next tournament specifies a worksheet round, you can use practice. Pick up your set of 25 worksheets today! Pick up your lightning round and worksheet sets today to be ready for your team's first practice session! |
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