The PhysicsBowl is a contest for high school students that was first introduced in 1985. In this article, we discuss both some of the history of the contest as well as the 25th contest occurring this year.

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Education
1.
Doug
Fox
 and
Jim
Nelson
, “
Physics contests for high school students
,”
Phys. Teach.
61
,
161
–
163
(March
1983
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2.
Private communication from Jim Nelson.
3.
Private communication from Mike Bush.
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