Two Redmond High School (RHS) Knowledge Bowl teams won fourth and fifth place at the regional competition and qualified to move on to the state championship on March 23.

Only two other schools, in Camas and Olympia, had two teams qualify for the 18-team state final.

“Team Starfleet Command” was comprised of juniors Cameron Akker, Anton de Leon, Aaron Dietrich, Ezra Owen-Kloor and Vikram Reddy and sophomore Jonathan Q.

Team Starfleet placed ninth in the state competition.

“Team Idea” was comprised of juniors Beth Brown, Sarang Joshi, Atticus Liu and Katie Pham and freshmen Ethan Raffman and Mayukha Vadari.

A third team faced fierce competition in the middle rounds and were ultimately pushed them out of contention: senior Eric Hsu, juniors Andrew Li, Monica Pan, Hannah Yang and Alex Zhou and sophomore Andrew Luo.