By Tyra Jackson

The Selma Times-Journal

Concordia College students need your help and votes.

The school’s quiz bowl team hopes to win a social media campaign to advance to the 2015 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge in Los Angeles, Calif. against 47 historically black colleges and universities. The grand prize in the competition is a $50,000 grant.

People can vote at hcasc.com up to three times a day. The last day to vote is Wednesday, Feb. 4.

Concordia’s team of approximately 13 students practices four days a week and twice in the morning, before classes in the morning and then again at 8 p.m. So far this year, the team has faced off in scrimmages against Tuskegee University, Stillman College and Alabama State University.

“We like to call ourselves Selma’s quiz bowl team. Selma is very high profile right now, and we want to keep Selma in a good light,” said Chinwe Okeke, the team’s coach. “Once we get people behind us, we can keep Selma moving forward.”

The team’s assistant coach, Glenn King Jr., says to win the “My HBCU is a Winner” campaign will show unity between the college and the city of Selma.

“Winning the HBCU challenge connects the community with the institution and gets the community involved with Concordia’s academics,” he said.

“We are thankful for what the community has done, and we want to take it to the next level.”

Also, King said he wants Selma to be acknowledged for something more than its history.

“We want to walk away with the recognition that Selma is not only historic, but academic as well,” King said.