Pleasant Valley High School Wins the
2010 Butte County Academic Decathlon
 

For more information, click here for the Press Release:  2010 Winners Press Release

2010 Butte County Academic Decathlon - February 6, 2010
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The Butte County Office of Education would like to extend an invitation to all Butte County High Schools to participate in the 2010 Butte County Academic Decathlon.  Please consider joining other Butte County Decathletes in this wonderful adventure.  Please contact the Butte County Academic Decathlon Coordinator to obtain registration and curriculum information.

Team Participation form is due September 30, 2009.

Click here for: Team Participation Packet and Form

The California Academic Decathlon is a statewide organization that promotes an educational experience providing a format in which teams of high school students compete in academic events. All California public and private schools are eligible to compete. The Academic Decathlon embodies a partnership of business, foundations and individuals in cooperation with the education community and county offices of education.

A county, state and national competition is held. Decathlon subjects include economics, art, music, language and literature, mathematics, science and social science. In addition, each team member gives a planned and an impromptu speech, an interview and writes an essay. The tenth event of the Decathlon is the Super Quiz.

A team consists of nine students from the same school. The nine-member team is comprised of three Varsity, three Scholastic and three Honor students in the following categories:

Category	GPA
Honor	3.75-4.00
Scholastic	3.00-3.74
Varsity	below 2.99

Contestants may compete in a higher division than their own GPA, but not in a lower division (i.e., a Scholastic student may compete as an Honor student, but not as a Varsity student).

The final team score is made up of only six scores: the highest two Honor, two Scholastic and two Varsity totals. Because of this fact, no team carries more than nine members, and if fewer than nine students choose to participate, the team is still fully eligible for overall awards.

California Academic Decathlon Website - http://www.academicdecathlon.org/

United States Academic Decathlon Website - http://www.usad.org/

For more information

Contact:
Mia Osborne-Ng - Senior Executive Assistant
Butte County Office of Education
1859 Bird Street, Oroville, CA 95965
Phone: (530) 532-5761
Email: mng@bcoe.org