The Scholastic Games quiz show has completed 33 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 Most Recent Broadcast: The 2023-24 CHAMPIONSHIP – Amherst Steele vs. Lake Ridge Academy (click here to hear it)
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 and supplemental radio sponsorship has come 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.
LINK HERE TO THE WEOL ARCHIVE OF 2023 COMPETITIONS
SELECTED FROM PAST SEASONS:
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The 2021 Championship-VIDEO ZOOM Version Click here to See
HERE ARE SOME ARCHIVES FROM DIALOGUES ON EDUCATION:
Click on the program listing below to hear the program. (Listings without links are coming soon.)
- About the Dialogues Series
- Jan. 2023 – Local Philanthropy Thrives at the Community Foundation of Lorain County
- Feb. 2023 – Lorain County’s bicentennial is observed by the Lorain County Historical Society
- Feb. 2023 – A state-sponsored group looks at how legalized sports gambling has added to Ohio’s youth gambling problem
- Feb. 2023 – Lorain County Retired Teachers offer new college scholarships for local students
- Feb. 2023 – The President of Lorain County Community College reports on fast tracking high school students to college and careers
- 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 – Jennifer Harmon of Elyria Public Library discusses innovative services offered by the modern library
- 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 PAST 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 – Notre Dame College of Ohio Responds to the Need for Nurses
- 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!
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.