The phrase
"academic decathlon" refers to a competition where students from different schools come together to showcase their knowledge and skills across various academic subjects.
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The North High School
Academic Decathlon Team from Des Moines, Iowa had its most successful year in a decade during the 2011 - 2012 school year.
Congratulations to LAUSD's Granada Hills Charter School for winning the California
State Academic Decathlon yesterday in Sacramento.
Home of the
National Academic Decathlon champions for 8 of the last 10 years, LAUSD is no stranger to success in the annual academic competition for high school students.
Statewide, over 5,000 students and 2,800 volunteers are involved in
Academic Decathlon in 2018 that featured a theme of Africa.
A KNBC4 story noted that «Granada Hills school — which has three national and three state titles — beat some 450 students from other high
school academic decathlon teams across the United States.»
Granada Hills Charter and Marshall High Tied for First Place
During Academic Decathlon Super Quiz Teams from the rival schools each scored 67 out of a possible 72 points in the only public event of the decathlon.
Sam, of course, has his O.C. - style melodrama to contend with, since his rich kid adversary from the
recent academic decathlon is flirting with his dream girl Laura (Emmy Rossum), while Sam's mom (Sela Ward) sits bedside with a young cancer patient in a cloying side - story (further ruined by Harald Kloser's prosaic score) meant to warm our frostbitten hearts.
Students from John Marshall High School in Los Angeles — where 80 percent of those enrolled learn English as a second language — won the sixth annual U.S.
Academic Decathlon last week in Dallas.
Most of them looked at me dubiously as I pulled out the silver box of practice impromptu speech topics
from Academic Decathlon, but they sat with their pencils at the ready.
The California champion will advance to the United States
Academic Decathlon set for April 19 - 21 in Frisco, Texas.
So in the midst of a particularly
raucous Academic Decathlon impromptu speech practice, I decided that this might be a great activity for letting my students dip their toes in the public speaking pool.
Lubbock High School, in Lubbock, and J. Frank Dobie High School in the Houston suburb of Pasadena had locked horns over which school had won the
Texas Academic Decathlon and a chance to compete for the national title.
A bitter disagreement over which Texas school would represent the state in the United States
Academic Decathlon ended last week with a ruling by the Texas Supreme Court just a day before the national competition began.
Additionally, of the top 112 U.S. top charter high schools on the list, 43 were from California, and 18 in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) alone, including recent National
Academic Decathlon winner Granada Hills Charter High and National Green Ribbon Award recipient Environmental Charter High.»
This award marks the end of the 2015 - 16
academic decathlon season in which Granada Hills Charter won all levels of competition including the city, state and national titles.
Casa Grande High School has a
notable Academic Decathlon team, which has represented Sonoma County for the last 27 years in the state - level competition.
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A news report from KABC described the significance of this accomplishment, «Granada Hills Charter High School is the only charter school in the history of the
U.S. Academic Decathlon to claim the national title and the only public school to earn that title three years in a row.»
Granada Hills Charter High School captured its fifth United
States Academic Decathlon (USAD) title - in six years - on April 30, 2016 in Anchorage, Alaska.
As someone who has coached our school's
Academic Decathlon team for over 10 years, I've long understood the value of public speaking for students.
When Claire takes returning champion Alex (Ariel Winter) to
an academic decathlon, Claire is so busy bragging to the other moms about her daughter's brains that she cheers when Alex is eliminated from the competition and accidentally humiliates her daughter.
Granada Hills Charter High School is a California Distinguished School and home of the 2011
Academic Decathlon National Champions.
The first and second place winners of the National
Academic Decathlon were California charter Schools.
Granada Hills Charter High School captured its fifth United States
Academic Decathlon (USAD) title in six years.
Losing out was Granada Hills Charter High School, a high performer that just won the state's
Academic Decathlon and has a waiting list of about 2,000 students.
Her extra-curricular activities include Key Club International, Future Farmers Of America, yearbook, varsity soccer, science fair,
academic decathlon, peer counseling, church youth group, COSMOS Program and Yale Young Global Scholars.
Since academic year 2009/2010 when the LTAA Grant Program began, $ 182,166.00 has been awarded to a range of programs including JROTC fine arts, CSI,
academic decathlon, robotics, sports teams, drama, classroom technology, lab equipment, music, and much more!
Since academic year 2009/2010 when the LTAA Grant Program began, $ 209,000 has been awarded for a range of programs including JROTC fine arts, mock trial,
academic decathlon, robotics, sports teams, drama, classroom technology, lab equipment, music, and much more!