Newfound Regional High Meets Plymouth Regional High

(DURHAM, March 4, 2024) - Newfound Regional High meets Plymouth Reginal High on Thursday, March 7, 2024, at 7:30 pm on NHPBS.

Playing for Newfound Regional High are team captain and senior, Nick Mazur,  junior Kinsey Boardman, and seniors Evan Foster and Lauren Paige. The coach for the team is social studies teacher Amy Doolin. Newfound Regional High is located in Bristol and enrolls around 387 students from Alexandria, Bridgewater, Bristol, Danbury, Groton, Hebron, Hill, and New Hampton.

Playing for Plymouth Regional High are the team captain and junior Reagan Sutherland, and seniors Khalil Dakhlia, Paul Mason, and Ethan Savage, The team alternates are juniors Norman Sackett and Max Shamansky. The coaches for the team are programming, drafting, and engineering teacher Jay Fogarty and Spanish teacher Troy Harris. Plymouth Regional High enrolls around 647 students from Plymouth, Ashland, Holderness, Campton, Rumney, Wentworth, Ellsworth, Waterville Valley, and Thornton.

The winner of the game will move on to the quarterfinals where they will meet the winner of the next Round One Game between ConVal High and Nashua High South on Thursday, 
March 14 at 7:30 pm on NHPBS.

Hosted by Bow High School teacher and former Granite State Challenge coach (Bedford High), contestant (Belmont High), and Granite State Challenge crew member, Jon Cannon, Granite State Challenge features some of New Hampshire's brightest high school students as they demonstrate remarkable teamwork, quick thinking, and smarts to beat the clock and buzz in first on this iconic New Hampshire game show. The game emphasizes quick recall of math, science, social studies, language arts, and fine arts facts - along with questions about current events, entertainment, sports, and New Hampshire.

You can follow your favorite team, test your knowledge with GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE online quizzes, and more at the GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE web page, or try your hands at daily brainteasers on the GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE Facebook page.

GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE is funded by lead sponsor Unitil with additional funding from NEA New Hampshire, Safety Insurance, D.F. Richard Energy, and HRCU.

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