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This week, it’s not easy to find a place to play hockey in Appalachia, and if you happen to be young and ambitious, it can be harder. Also, rappers and musicians across West Virginia come together for a song challenge. And, farmers learn to turn unwanted sheep’s wool into home insulation.
Teams of 8th grade students from around West Virginia faced off Tuesday in an academic bowl competition that focused on West Virginia history, literature, arts, architecture, geography and culture.
The questions for the history bowl are largely drawn from questions found in the Archives and History Quick Quizzes and Daily Trivia.
To learn more about the West Virginia History Bowl, check out the 2011 West Virginia Legacy program on the tournament from the West Virginia Library Commission Library Television Network.
On this West Virginia Week, a Lincoln County student asks the state supreme court to step in, a state of emergency is declared in several counties, and a new initiative honors Dolly Parton.
The suit, filed with the support of the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia, asks the court to declare the state’s school funding system unconstitutional and order the state to meet its duty to provide a thorough and efficient education to every child in West Virginia.
Apart from her music and films, one of the things Dolly Parton was proudest of, and revered for, was her Imagination Library, sending books to any child who wanted them. A new state initiative aims to honor that.
The Physical and Quantitative Sciences Scholars Program will provide scholarships and support for students pursuing degrees in chemistry, geology, physics, data science, mathematics and statistics.