The Scholastic Games quiz show production was halted mid-season in 2020 and modified for “Zoom” production in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. We pleased that we were able to return to in-person production with our original format in 2022.
Our Thirty-second Quiz Season:
The Scholastic Games high school quiz has been produced since 1990 as an academic competition for schools in Lorain County, Ohio. It is produced by Standout Production Group, a 501(c)(3) organization formed during the 2021-22 school year. Prior to this year, our fiscal sponsor had been the Community West Foundation, 
a charitable organization that has participated as a sponsor of our program for several years. Our charter corporate supporter is the Nordson Corporation. 
Other major support comes from designated educational funds of the Community Foundation of Lorain County, and the Nord Family Foundation. Our home radio station is WEOL, AM930/FM100.3 in Elyria, with sponsorship and venue suppport from the Elyria Public Library System and supplemental radio sponsorship from EcoTree Services.
Links to our latest archived programs are below. Participants may link HERE for our format and sample questions, Check out our link to the Standout Scholar honor roll, the students voted mot valuable to their teams over the years, and check the list to the right for links to other program information.
HERE IS OUR ARCHIVE OF THIS SEASON’S COMPETITIONS:
The latest is in BOLD TYPE
(A TIP: When listening to programs, click on the link below,
and then open the show in a new window, That way you can
listen as you continue to browse this site.)
Monday, Jan. 31 – LAGRANGE KEYSTONE vs OBERLIN (click here for program)
Monday, Feb. 07 – N. RIDGEVILLE vs OLMSTED FALLS (click here for program)
Monday, Feb. 14 – SHEFFIELD BROOKSIDE vs GRAFTON MIDVIEW (Click here for program)
Monday, Feb. 21 – AMHERST vs AVON (click here for program)
Monday, Feb. 28 – ELYRIA CATHOLIC vs FIRELANDS (click here for program)
Monday, Mar. 07 – AVON LAKE vs LAKE RIDGE ACAD. (Click here for program)
Monday, Mar. 14 – ELYRIA vs VERMILION (Click here for program)
(This marks the end of round 1 competitions, all recorded in Jan. & Feb.)
Monday, Mar. 21 – WILDCARDS (highest-scoring runner-up teams; winner to quarterfinals) AVON LAKE vs KEYSTONE (click here for program)
Monday, Mar. 28 – PLAYOFF (lower-scoring winning teams; only the winner goes to quarterfinals) AVON vs ELYRIA CATHOLIC (click here for program)
Monday, Apr. 4 – QUARTERFINAL #1 – LAKE RIDGE ACADEMY vs. VERMILION (click here for program)
Monday, Apr. 11 – QUARTERFINAL #2 -FIRELANDS vs. OLMSTED FALLS (click here for program)
Monday, Apr. 25 – QUARTERFINAL #3 – BROOKSIDE vs. AMHERST STEELE (click here for program)
Monday, May 2 – QUARTERFINAL #4 – AVON vs. LaGRANGE KEYSTONE (click here for program)
May 9 – SEMIFINAL #1 – KEYSTONE vs. LAKE RIDGE ACADEMY (click here for program)
May 16 – SEMIFINAL #2 – AMHERST STEELE vs. OLMSTED FALLS (click here for program)
May 23 – 2022 CHAMPIONSHIP – LAKE RIDGE ACADEMY vs. OLMSTED FALLS (click here for program)
HERE ARE SELECTED SHOWS FROM PAST SEASONS:
- The 2000 Championship, Elyria’s 5th – Re-presented here because one http://standoutscholars.com/?page_id=3471of the Elyria High team members, Nicole Kozdron, class of 2001, recently appeared on Jeopardy! Click to hear our program
- 4/20/20 Championship of 2011 with future Jeopardy! Champion Click for program
HERE ARE THIS YEAR’S DIALOGUES ON EDUCATION: (and a few archives, too!)
Click on the program listing below to hear the program. (Listings without links are coming soon.)
- About the Dialogues Series
- Jan. 2022 – Update from the Community Foundation of Lorain County
- Feb. 2022 – An Oberlin teacher receives state-wide honors, and perhaps national recognition.
- Feb. 2022 – Student Violence due to Covid and what to do about it – What a Lorain County Mental Health Official Advises
- Feb. 2022 – A school security expert discusses classroom violence.
- Feb. 2022 – A Superintendent Warns About Social Media – Ann Schloss of Elyria Public Schools
- Mar. 2022 – Shakespeare Comes to Lorain County High Schools – A Great Lakes Theatre Program
- Mar. 2022 – Concerns About Youth Gambling – Ohio Tackles the Problem
- Mar. 2022 – Teaching Lorain – The Local Historical Society’s Efforts to Emphasize Area History
- Mar. 2022 – The Library in the 21st Century – Inside the Elyria Public Library
- Apr. 2022 – A Visit to Ohio’s Heidelberg University
- Apr. 2022 – Notre Dame College of Ohio Responds to the Need for Nurses
- Apr. 2022 – Nordson Corporation Serves Industry and the Community
- May 2022 – The Interview with the 2022 Championship-Winning Team
ARCHIVES
- May 2021 – An Education Program Associated with NASA’s Mars Rover
- Apr. 2021 – A Drop in College Enrollments, and Possible Solutions
- Apr. 2021 – A Visit with the President of Ursuline College
- Mar. 2021 – Ohio’s University of Findlay – the University President Discusses Today’s Challenges
- Mar. 2021 – A former Scholastic Games “Standout Scholar” became a Jeopardy! Champion 20 Years Later: An interview with Nicole Kozdron
- FROM 2020 – Is it good to limit a student to only one extracurricular activity? He says no.
- FROM 2020 – Beginning higher education in high school with LCCC programs
- FROM 2020 – An earlier interview with the current president of Standout Production Group, David Lengyel, formerly a long-time academic team advisor at Amherst Steele High School
Eleven Colleges and Universities participate in our TUITION AWARD PROGRAM. Click for details!
A SPECIAL 2020 DOCUMENTARY: “HAPPY BIRTHDAY RADIO”
Scheduled commercial broadcasting in America began on Nov. 2, 1920, with election returns presented on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh. Sixty-five years 
later, Jim Mehrling, the host and producer of the Scholastic Games quiz, was able to locate and interview Leo Rosenberg, the man 
who had been the announcer on that broadcast. At age 89, Rosenberg recalled the event in vivid detail. Beginning with that interview, Mehrling has compiled a documentary on radio’s evolution and history on the occasion of radio’s centennial (last November) which he offers for your enjoyment here. Just click on this link.