Quiz Kids

By: Madilynn Wilcox

Rocky Mountains Quiz Kids is a half hour television game show, exclusively on SOCO CW and FOX21. It features students from local high schools competing in tournaments to test their knowledge.

The Quiz Kid games are like games of jeopardy with a twist of four players on a team instead of one.
This is the first year Pueblo County High School competed in the competition. The way PCHS got into the competition was by emailing the coordinator science teacher Christopher Ludwig, they only knew about this because they were knowledgeable. 

They met at Fox21 SocoCW studios in Colorado Springs and spent the next two days there. They went to the studio three times in total; twice on Saturdays and once on Sunday. They made it to the final round of competition and placed 2nd out of 25 teams, earning a 2nd place prize of $3500.

“My favorite memory is from the final game. Our team had built up a great rapport with the game's host, news anchor Scott Kilbury, and were very easy-going around him, cracking jokes and generally making him laugh. When we lost the final game by missing a couple of questions, Scott seemed genuinely sad that we lost and I'm pretty sure we were his favorite team the way he went out of his way to say how great the team was for their 2nd place finish.”- Mr. Christopher Ludwig

Mr. Ludwig is a science and technology teacher at PCHS. Quiz Kids is nothing new to Mr. Ludwig, with him being involved in programs such as TSA, the Technology Student Association, and Knowledge Bowl. He joined Pueblo County in 2022 and since then has cemented himself as a proud member of the hornet team.  

“My favorite thing about this team is that it gives my Knowledge Bowl students a televised audience to show off how smart they are. Usually we do really well in our regular competitions and no one hears about it, but the Quiz Kids have actually run into people in public that recognized them from the TV show. It's nice for them to be recognized for how smart they are.”- Mr. Christopher Ludwig

The students that are involved have expressed how much they enjoy the club and hope that it will continue to be a thing, here is a quote from one of the students involved, “I enjoyed it very much, I found the experience very stimulating, exhilarating, and exciting. The fun we had there is not easily matched.”-John Guerrero. This club has sparked interests in many students and has left those who participated in it hungry for more.