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The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student Chapter at the University of Washington was honored to attend the 8th Annual Bill Kloos Traffic Bowl in Portland, Oregon. The team of graduate students of the STAR lab who attended the event were Salvatore Antonio Biancardo, Kai Kuo, Luka Ukrainczyk, Ruimin Ke, Xinqiang Chen, and Wenbo Zhu.  Four members of the UW ITE team (Salvatore, Kai, Luka, and Wenbo) joined the Traffic Bowl competition, which was modeled after the Jeopardy TV show. The UW team competed against teams from the University of Portland, Portland State University, the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and the Oregon Institute of Technology. The question topics ranged from transportation modeling and the Highway Capacity Manual to transportation-related Video Games, and actual Jeopardy questions from the show. The UW team took home first place, with UP and PSU winning second and third place, respectively. After some rousing celebration later that night, the UW team joined the rest of the contestants for a tour of the Kittelson & Associates and HDR offices, as well as the Oregon DOT traffic management center. The team was also lucky to stay at the house of PSU ITE President Nicholas Stoll, who offered his hospitality to the UW team for the second year in a row.