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|champion = [[1996 Maryland Panasonic Team|Maryland All-Stars]]<br />
|second = [[1996 South Carolina Panasonic Team|South Carolina All-Stars]]<br />
|third = Alabama<br />
|fourth = Oklahoma <br />
|fifth = [[1996 State College|State College]]<br />
|sixth = [[1996 Georgia Panasonic Team|Georgia All-Stars]]<br />
|allam1 = Skylar Byrd, [[1996 Banneker|Banneker]]<br />
|allam2 = J. Nicholas Deibel, [[1996 South Oldham|South Oldham]]<br />
|allam3 = [[Prasun Ray]], [[1996 Auburn (AL)|Auburn]]<br />
|allam4 = Matthew Johnson, [[1996 Montpelier|Montpelier]]<br />
|allam5 = Eric McArthur, [[1996 Edmond Memorial|Edmond Memorial]]<br />
|allam6 = Lawson Fite, [[1996 Hudson's Bay|Hudson's Bay]]<br />
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46 teams participated. Maryland scored 203 points in the finals, to South Carolina's 188 and Alabama's 178.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* $2500 scholarships, rings, and Apple Newton PDAs were given to winning team members, while the second place players got $1500 scholarships and rings, and the third place team received $500 scholarships and rings. Panasonic sponsored the scholarships, Herff Jones the rings, and Apple the PDAs.<br />
* One question from this tournament was "Compute the exact area in square units of a triangle whose base has a unit measure equal to the number of stories in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" and whose altitude has a unit measure equal to the number of permanent member countries on the United Nations Security Council."<br />
* In a baffling move, [[1996 New Horizons|New Horizons]] was selected by the Panasonic committee as the Virginia representative over [[1996 Thomas Jefferson (VA)|Thomas Jefferson]], who had won the tournament in 1994.<br />
* Lawson Fite became the first (and as of 2008, only) player to be named to the "All-America" team three times.<br />
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==Survey==<br />
Once again, competitors were surveyed on current issues. 61.7% rated President Clinton's overall performance as "good." 55.6% said there should be no change in abortion laws. 54.1% said the Internet was important. 49.5% felt personally threatened by global warming.<br />
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