The contest, co-sponsored by KTWU, a PBS affiliate in Topeka, and Washburn, allows teams of high school students throughout Kansas to compete against one another in answering questions on topics such as art, literature, history, math and science.

Teams earning the top 16 scores advance to the finals and will return to Topeka several times for taping sessions. The televised Quest competition will air on KTWU from February through May 2008, when the championship team will be named.

Representing THS are: junior Robert Brotherton, senior Donald Dyster Jr., junior Christopher Jordan, junior Alicia Osborne, junior, junior Austin Smith, and senior Kristen Titterington. The team’s coach is Ron Lewis.