The Scholastic Games quiz show has completed 34 seasons as a showcase of excellence in education in Lorain County, Ohio. Its unbroken history includes a modified “Zoom” season in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In-person production resumed with our original format in 2022. Our 35th season is in preparation.
Our Most Recent Broadcasts: The Championship Program of 2024 – Amherst Steele vs. Avon Lake High School (click here to hear it)
THE SEMIFINALS: #1 – Avon Lake vs. Vermilion High (click here to hear it) and #2 – Amherst vs. Elyria High (click here to hear it)
OTHER SELECT PROGRAMS FROM THIS SEASON: Program #8 N. Ridgeville vs. Oberlin; #2 Avon vs. Elyria #5 Amherst vs. Olmsted Falls #7 Brookside vs. Firelands #10 WILDCARD-Firelands vs. Midview, #11 QF1 Amherst vs. BlkRiver, #12 QF2 Avon Lake vs. Brookside #13 QF3 Elyria vs. North Ridgeville #14QF4 Midview vs. Vermilion
LINK HERE TO THE ENTIRE WEOL ARCHIVE OF COMPETITIONS
The Scholastic Games high school quiz was first broadcast in 1990. It is now a creation of Standout Production Group, a 501(c)(3) organization formed during the 2021-22 school year, headed by a Board of Directors. 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 support from the Elyria Public Library System, the Community West Foundation.
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.
SELECTED FROM PAST SCHOLASTIC GAMES SEASONS:
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The 2021 Championship-VIDEO ZOOM Version Click here to See
HERE ARE SOME ARCHIVES FROM THE SCHOLASTIC GAMES COMPANION PROGRAM DIALOGUES ON EDUCATION:
Click on the program listing below to hear the program. (Listings without links are coming soon.)
- About the Dialogues Series
- Jan. 2024 – Local Philanthropy and Scholarship Opportunities Await the Community Foundation of Lorain County
- Feb. 2024 – Lorain County Community College President, Dr. Marcia Ballinger on innovative educational programs
- Feb. 2024 – Microelectronics Training at Lorain County Community College
- Feb. 2024 – “Music on a Mission: An Innovation in Early Education
- Feb. 2024 – Anti-smoking and Anti-vaping Program from the Lorain County Health Department
- Mar. 2024 – Help with Starting a Small Business from Lorain County Community College
- Mar. 2024 – Sheffield’s Brookside High School Celebrates 100 Years
- Mar. 2024 – A NASA spokesman previews the solar eclipse
- Apr. 2024 – A spokesperson from the Goddard Spaceflight Center gives a postmortem of the solar eclipse
- Apr. 2024 – A 19th Century Schoolhouse is restored as a Museum by the North Ridgeville, Ohio, Historical Society
- Apr. 2024 – The latest from our hosts, the Elyria Public Library System from its Marketing and Communications Director, Jennifer Harmon
- HIGHLIGHTS OF LAST YEAR’S PROGRAMS:
- Feb. 2023 – Lorain County Retired Teachers offer new college scholarships for local students
- Mar. 2023 – Are schools using best methods to teach children to read? An expert views the controversy
- Mar. 2023 – Ken Trump of National School Safety and Security Services discusses tstandoutscholars.comhe vital topic of school safety concerns
- Mar. 2023 – Ken Trump on School Safety part 2: ways of training school staff to be prepared for security breaches
- Mar. 2023 – “We Serve,” a program in which high school students assist and tutor younger students, is a success at Avon Lake High School
- Apr. 2023 – How “Bridges to Success,” a program at Lorain County Community College, helped an Avon High School graduate
- Apr. 2023 – Strategies and remedies dealing with the mental health crisis among teens, particularly young women
- Apr. 2023 – Barb Piscopo of the Lorain Historical Society describes its new oral history initiative, notably in minority communities
ARCHIVES FROM EARLIER YEARS
- Feb. 2022 – An Oberlin teacher receives state-wide honors, and perhaps national recognition.
- Apr. 2022 – A Visit to Ohio’s Heidelberg University
- Apr. 2022 – Nordson Corporation Serves Industry and the Community
- 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
- 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!
FROM THE PRODUCER OF THE SCHOLASTIC GAMES, 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.
Thanks for your support of the Scholastic Games of Lorain County.