Scholastic Games of Lorain County-2025-#17 Championship: Avon vs. Black River
Scholastic Games H.S. Quiz Podcast
Release Date: 01/19/2026
Scholastic Games H.S. Quiz Podcast
This is the third program of our 2026 season of “Scholastic Games,” our weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio. The show is produced from January through May of each year. This is a program of special interest as it is a rematch between the schools that clashed in last spring’s 2025 Championship. The teams are from Avon High School in the northern part of the county and Black River High School in a laragely rural part of southern Lorain county and parts of Medina and Ashland counties. Not only have both schools...
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“Dialogues on Education” is a weekly companion program to “Scholastic Games,” an interview feature focusing on success stories in the area of education. It is produced and hosted by broadcast veteran Bob Tayek. The guest on this week’s offering is David Funk, who heads up an innovative educational program at Vermilion High School, a career-oriented course called “Wealth and Wisdom."
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“Dialogues on Education” is a weekly companion program to “Scholastic Games,” an interview feature focusing on success stories in the area of education. It is produced and hosted by broadcast veteran Bob Tayek. The guest on this week’s offering is Cynthia Andrews, the President and Chief Executive of the Community Foundation of Lorain County, a nonprofit organization with a long history of local philanthropic activity. In addition to numerous civic services, it administers a number of scholarships, services to teachers, and we proudly add, long-term...
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This is the second program of our 2026 season, presenting teams from two schools that have in previous years won our championship. They are Avon Lake High School and North Ridgeville High School. “Scholastic Games,” is our weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio. The show is produced from January through May of each year. Based on their scores, there will be elimination broadcasts leading up to our 36th annual county championship in May.
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Dialogues on Education is a companion program to the Scholastic Games quiz show which features interviews that focus on success stories relating to education. On the occasion of Scholastic Games entering its 36th season on the air, Bob Tayek interviews the programs producer, Jim Mehrling, about the programs history and goals. Areas covered include how the program began, the fields of knowledge covered, and how the show and the students have changed over the years.
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This program begins our 36th season of broadcasts in Lorain County, in northern Ohio, our second year as a podcast. The schools represented in this academic quiz show have both produced championship-winning teams in past years. Keystone High School is in LaGrange, in the southern part of the county, and Vermilion High School is in the community adjacent to Lake Erie, spanning the northernmost sentions of Lorain and Erie counties. Scholastic Games produces new competitions each year between Januaray and May. It is a series of seventeen weekly programs featuring up...
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This is our 2025 Championship, which first aired in late May of that year. The two schools competing each won a series of playoffs against the top academic teams of Lorain County, Ohio. Scholastic Games,” is weekly high school quiz program featuring the county schools which completed its 35th season with this broadcast. The schools are Avon High School in northern Lorain County and Black River High School, from a district that straddles Lorain and Ashland counties. The inaugural broadcast of 36th season to be released Tuesday, January 27th, after 6...
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This quiz program was originally aired May 12, 2025. It’s our second semifinal of the 2025 season, the last program before the season championship. (Note that the “Current Events Round” relates to events last May.) Scholastic Games,” is weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio, in the heart of mid-America. It is a 17-program series produced from January through May of each year. Yes, we’re about to begin our new season with a first competition to be released Tuesday, January 27th, at 6 p.m. EST. ...
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This quiz program was originally aired May 5, 2025. It’s our first semifinal of the 2025 season. This quiz program was originally aired April 28, 2025, eight months prior to this rebroadcast. Keep this in mind for the current events round (no. 2). “Scholastic Games,” is weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio, in the heart of mid-America. It is a 17-program series produced from January through May of each year. Yes, we’re about to begin our new season with a first competition to be released Tuesday,...
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This is first semifinal contest of our 2024 season as we approach the conclusion of our summer reruns of “Scholastic Games,” our weekly high school quiz program featuring the schools of Lorain County, Ohio. The show is produced from January through May of each year. In this week’s offering we continue the playoffs leading up to our 34th annual county championship. The winner here will advance to the program’s championship to be released September 22nd. The teams are from Avon Lake High School and Vermilion High School. Both schools have produced...
info_outlineThis is our 2025 Championship, which first aired in late May of that year. The two schools competing each won a series of playoffs against the top academic teams of Lorain County, Ohio. Scholastic Games,” is weekly high school quiz program featuring the county schools which completed its 35th season with this broadcast. The schools are Avon High School in northern Lorain County and Black River High School, from a district that straddles Lorain and Ashland counties. The inaugural broadcast of 36th season to be released Tuesday, January 27th, after 6 p.m. EST. Teams on that program will be from Keystone High School, from LaGrange in the southern part of Lorain County, and from Vermilion High, from a city bordering Lake Erie.