Pinckneyville vs. Carbondale as WSIU Begins New Season of 'Hi-Q'
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Scholar bowl students from Pinckneyville High School will take on top students from Carbondale High School in the first episode of the 2010-11 season of Scholastic Hi-Q, WSIU Public Television's quiz show featuring regional high school scholar bowl teams. The half-hour episode will air on WSIU-TV 8/WUSI-TV 16, the public television stations of Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), on Sunday, October 3 at 5:30 pm and will repeat on Sunday, October 10 at 9:30 am.
Produced and hosted by SIUC students, Scholastic Hi-Q is a competitive game show series featuring scholar bowl teams from 32 area high schools. Team members answer questions from a variety of disciplines, including art, geography, history, literature, math, music and science. The winning school of each game advances to subsequent rounds until they are either eliminated by another team or advance to the championship match. Season champions receive a large plaque for their school and recognition on WSIU-TV's airwaves and Web site.
Ryan Dosier, a sophomore in Cinema & Photography from Carbondale, Illinois, is the new host of Scholastic Hi-Q. In addition to his academic studies and Scholastic Hi-Q hosting duties, Dosier is a recognized expert on Jim Henson's Muppets and the PBS series Sesame Street. He created and maintains a public blog, The Muppet Mindset, on which he shares program trivia, character bios, stories, reviews, and more. To learn more, visit Dosier's blog at http://themuppetmindset.blogspot.com. Dosier also hosts Facebook and Twitter pages for The Muppet Mindset.