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EGUSD students win big at Sacramento County Academic Decathlon
February 21, 2008
Students from six Elk Grove Unified high schools turned in a strong showing at the 2008 Sacramento County Academic Decathlon competition.
Academic decathletes compete as a nine-member team against other schools by taking 30 minute multiple-choice tests in the subjects of economics, language and literature, music, science, art, mathematics and social science. Additionally, each team member is required to give a planned four-minute speech, a two-minute impromptu speech, participate in a seven-minute interview and has 50 minutes to write an essay. Each team consists of three honor decathletes (GPA 3.75-4.0), three scholastic decathletes (GPA 3.00-3.75) and three varsity decathletes (GPA 0.0-2.99). Lastly, all students compete in the Super Quiz competition.
The following students won awards at the 2008 Sacramento County Academic Decathlon:
Super Decathlete Award – Silver Medal
Alan Lin (Laguna Creek High School)
Highest Scoring Member of Each Team
Christian Fong (Franklin High School)
Alan Lin (Laguna Creek High School)
Khanh-Hien Tran (Monterey Trail High School)
Kyle East (Pleasant Grove High School)
Amy Vo (Sheldon High School)
Bee Vang (Valley High School)
Team Leadership Award
Christian Fong (Franklin High School)
Claire Michaels (Laguna Creek High School)
Kathy Le (Monterey Trail High School)
Alison Bartow (Pleasant Grove High School)
Matthew King (Sheldon High School)
Bee Vang (Valley High School)
Super Quiz Competition – Team
Laguna Creek High School – 5th Place
Overall Competition Point Totals – Team
Laguna Creek High School – 5th Place (Team members: Sidney Antonsen, Alan Lin, Claire Michaels, Junyao Peng, Sean Thomas, Krystal Parrish, Chris Seatris, Safa Matar, Mariel Viola)
Language & Literature category
Alan Lin (Laguna Creek High School) – Silver Medal
Larmon Luo (Franklin High School) – Silver Medal
Christopher Seatris (Laguna Creek High School) – Silver Medal
Science category
Larmon Luo (Franklin High School) – Bronze Medal
Bee Vang (Valley High School) – Bronze Medal
Art category
Alan Lin (Laguna Creek High School) – Silver Medal
Math category
Alan Lin (Laguna Creek High School) – Gold Medal
Larmon Luo (Franklin High School) – Gold Medal
Christopher Seatris (Laguna Creek High School) – Bronze Medal
Economics category
Christian Fong (Franklin High School) – Gold Medal
Alan Lin (Laguna Creek High School) – Gold Medal
Essay category
Christian Fong (Franklin High School) – Bronze Medal
Speech category
Larmon Luo (Franklin High School) – Gold Medal
Junyao Peng (Laguna Creek High School) – Silver Medal
Interview category
Claire Michaels (Laguna Creek High School) – Silver Medal
Christina Halstead (Sheldon High School) – Bronze Medal
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