Students Stretch Their Mental Muscles
Posted December 11, 2006
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Academic Decathletes Prepare for Big Competition
On December 9, nearly 350 students from the Sacramento County area and beyond gathered for a scholarly scrimmage.
Students armed with pencils, calculators and a great deal of knowledge packed into a gymnasium at St. Francis High School in Sacramento for the Capital Region Academic Decathlon Scrimmage. The scrimmage was a practice competition that helped Academic Decathletes prepare for the 27th Annual Academic Decathlon competition. The competition day event is scheduled for Saturday, February 3, 2007 at Valley High School in the Elk Grove Unified School District. The awards banquet is scheduled for February 7, 2007 at the University Union ballroom on the campus of California State University, Sacramento.
"The scrimmage is a great warm-up exercise for students and it gives them a taste of what the big competition will be like," said Craig Irish, the Sacramento County coordinator for Academic Decathlon. "We were really pleased with the number of schools that took part in this year's scrimmage."
The California Academic Decathlon is a statewide nonprofit organization that promotes an educational experience providing a format in which teams of nine high school students compete in academic events. All California public and private high schools are eligible to compete.
Academic Decathlon teams spend months preparing for this demanding competition. In addition to mastering the extensive academic content, students learn about teamwork, goal-setting, planning and leadership.
The theme of the 2007 Academic Decathlon competition is "China and Its Influence on the World."
Students from 38 high schools participated in the December 9th scrimmage, some from as far away as Kern County and Contra Costa County. During the scrimmage, students were tested on a number of subject areas, including mathematics, science, economics, language and literature, economics, social sciences and music.
| Bella Vista High School | Sacramento County |
| Del Campo High School | Sacramento County |
| Folsom High School | Sacramento County |
| Galt High School | Sacramento County |
| Inderkum High School | Sacramento County |
| Laguna Creek High School | Sacramento County |
| Luther Burbank High School | Sacramento County |
| Mira Loma High School | Sacramento County |
| Monterey Trails High School | Sacramento County |
| New Technology High School | Sacramento County |
| Rio Americano High School | Sacramento County |
| St. Francis High School | Sacramento County |
| Valley High School | Sacramento County |
| West Campus High School | Sacramento County |
| Pleasant Valley High School | Butte County |
| Colusa High School | Colusa County |
| Antioch High School | Contra Costa County |
| Pittsburg High School | Contra Costa County |
| El Dorado High School | El Dorado County |
| Golden Sierra High School | El Dorado County |
| Cesar Chavez High School | Kern County |
| Middletown High School | Lake County |
| Granite Bay High School | Placer County |
| Lincoln High School | Placer County |
| Rocklin High School | Placer County |
| Roseville High School | Placer County |
| Woodcreek High School | Placer County |
| Armijo High School | Solano County |
| Benicia High School | Solano County |
| Hogan High School | Solano County |
| Vanden High School | Solano County |
| Fred C. Beyer High School | Stanislaus County |
| Davis High School | Yolo County |
| Esparto High School | Yolo County |
| River City High School | Yolo County |
| Winters High School | Yolo County |
| Lindhurst High School | Yuba County |
| Marysville High School | Yuba County |
For more information about the Sacramento County Academic Decathlon contact Craig Irish: (916) 228-2660.
