In the San Francisco Bay Area, there’s a popular academic quiz show called Quiz Kids that airs on local public-access television. In each show, local high school teams of three players each compete for a $1,000 per-student scholarship based upon who can answer the most quiz questions correctly.
It’s a cute show, but of special interest to Cult of Mac’s readers is Episode 1110, in which the Mercy High School Crusaders competed against the Crystal Springs Griffins. The captain of the latter team? No less than Steve Jobs’s son, Reed, who talks about some of his extracurricular work helping out at Stanford, trying to assist finding new gene therapies for colon cancer. And Steve himself can be seen in the back at around the 2:53 mark, cheering Reed on.
That Reed Powell kid sure seems like a chip off the block, huh?
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
5 responses to “Watch Steve Jobs Cheer His Son On During This Awesome High School Quiz Show [Video]”
This has been posted on this site before.
I don’t know why the article is titles watch Steve Jobs cheer his son, when there wasn’t a single shot of him and I didn’t hear anything out of the ordinary… I suspect this posting is for a hit generator and is also very boring.
OK, first,, hes not at 2:53 at all or anywhere in this film. Second, Reed is not the captain.. ok.. so this was a click generator.. I continue to lose respect for Brownlee
Steve Jobs is at the back, right of the scene at 2:53 with his head down, probably looking at his phone. I think “cheering him on” was sarcasm. ;-)
LOL, hilarious!
nice catch >.<