Teachers Turn Playful in Honor of Science Bowl Teams
Keeping their promises to don a dress and shave off half a mustache if their students came home champions, two North Hollywood High School science teachers briefly abandoned work for whimsy Monday morning to celebrate the weekend victories of their two teams in the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Science Bowl.
The North Hollywood teams placed first and third. North Hollywood will represent the region at the national Science Bowl competition in early May in Washington.
Surrounded by his exhausted but jubilant students, science teacher Len Soloff--decked out in his wife’s brightly colored, striped dress--said he and fellow coach Koh Ikeda were delighted to honor the bargain they struck with the students.
“It’s such a thrill after watching them study that hard, to win the whole thing,” Soloff said.
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