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Asher Kirschbaum
  • mechanical engineering
  • Washington Grove, MD

Asher Kirschbaum and team win National Association of the Deaf College Bowl

2016 Aug 24

A student team from Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf has won the National Association of the Deaf College Bowl academic competition for the third consecutive year, and earned its sixth victory overall.

Held at the biennial NAD conference since 1988, the College Bowl is a four-day question-and-answer academic competition with topics as varied as literature, science, mathematics, history and current events. The event, which brings together deaf contestants from top colleges and universities serving deaf and hard-of-hearing students, regularly draws more than 1,000 audience members to the finals.

Teams of four students from each school vie for the trophy and scholarships for their respective colleges. In addition to RIT/NTID, teams at this year's competition held in Phoenix were from California State University-Northridge, Gallaudet University and the University of Minnesota.

The winning RIT/NTID team included Asher Kirschbaum of Washington Grove, who is studying mechanical engineering.