GBH
High School Quiz Show
Started: 2010
- Currently active
- Created by our station
Station type: Joint license
GBH’s High School Quiz Show is an award-winning broadcast and digital academic tournament that has been promoting inclusion and rewarding Massachusetts students for their love of knowledge since 2010. Hosted by local celebrity Billy Costa, this bracketed weekly series places brains over brawn in entertaining, engaging and highly competitive matches. Questions aligned with state curriculum standards fall within categories including literature, history, science, civics, and math, as well as current events. HSQS is a celebration of academic success, a source of school and community pride, and participation alone is recognized across the Commonwealth as a significant achievement.
This project reaches tweens and teens via...
- Directly engaging t(w)eens via activities, events, or programs
- Media and/or educational content that is made by, with, or for t(w)eens
What topics does this project focus on?
Civic engagement
Current affairs
Music, art
Other
Public media
Science, technology
*Content for the series informed by curriculum standards/subjects, current events, and topics and issues of interest to high-school-aged youth.
Is this project considered part of the station's journalism work?
No
Departments involved:
Production (TV/Radio)
Media and/or educational content
Who is the primary audience of the content?
Other
*The broadcast series is general audience; the YouTube series is 18-24+.
Who creates the media content?
T(w)eens and adults (in collaboration)
*Other
Who decides the topic areas of the content?
Adults only
Where is the content shared?
Broadcast TV
Website
YouTube
Instagram
Twitter
Facebook
Directly engaging tweens and teens in local programming
In this project...
We host programming directly for t(w)eens
We partner with *local organizations* to host programming
We partner with *national organizations* to host programming
We partner with our *local school district(s)* to host programming
Contact time between youth participants and station staff:
11+ hours