ACADEMIC DECATHLON VALLEY'S EL CAMINO REAL WINS WOODLAND HILLS SCHOLARS REGAIN U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP.Byline: Erik N. Nelson Staff Writer ANCHORAGE, Alaska - El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. school its second championship in three years. With a 21-point edge, El Camino's seven young men and two women, all seniors in their first and final contest, bested the chief rival from Texas in the competition that quizzes students in 10 tests over a range of subjects. ``This is the best feeling in the world,'' said Scott Lulovics, as teammates fell over the table embracing each other once the number two winner was announced. James E. Taylor High School James E. Taylor High School, also known as Katy Taylor High School, is a public high school in Harris County, Texas, near the city of Katy. The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Katy Independent School District. from the Houston suburb of Katy took second place followed by Whitney Young Noun 1. Whitney Young - United States civil rights leader (1921-1971) Whitney Moore Young Jr., Young Magnet High School from Illinois in third. El Camino's victory racks up another win for the powerhouse Woodland Hills campus - and for the area that has seen Moorpark High School Moorpark High School, located in Moorpark, California, is a public high school in the Moorpark Unified School District and currently has an enrollment of 2,478 students.[1] take the national championship in 1999, El Camino in 1998 and Taft High School in 1993 and 1988. ``I'm overwhelmed, absolutely overwhelmed,'' said Chris Cerone, who with fellow English teacher Melinda Owen just completed his second year of coaching El Camino. The evening awards banquet at the Egan Convention Center came on the final day of three-day competition and after the team earlier Saturday tied with the Texas and Wisconsin teams for first place in the Super Quiz Relay. Team members Walter Ching For the Chinese surname Ching 程, see . For the Chinese dynasty, see . The ching (Thai: ฉิ่ง; sometimes romanized as chhing) are small bowl-shaped finger cymbals of thick and heavy bronze, with a broad rim commonly used in Cambodia and , Aria aria (är`ēə), elaborate and often lengthy solo song with instrumental accompaniment. In the 16th cent. it was a melody improvised over a strophic bass line, and a distinction was made between instrumental, vocal, and dance arias. Haghighi, Samantha Henry, Lulovics and Alan Wittenberg scored perfect fives on the relay, while Elan (Emulated LAN) A virtual LAN in the ATM world. See LANE and virtual LAN. Elan - ["Top-down Programming with Elan", C.H.A. Koster, Ellis Horwood 1987]. Bar, Dennis Kuo, Grace Giles and Ryan Ruby got all but one right. The nine students who were by contest rules chosen evenly from the ranks of A, B and C students, spent at least 1,000 hours - much more by some estimates - preparing for the city, state and national decathlons. The team represented California at the national contest that brought high school squads from all 50 states to Anchorage, Alaska. The team won the top prize with a 46,547 score of a possible 60,000. The El Camino students also won 19 medals for individual accomplishments. Wittenberg took home a gold medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize in the Varsity Division, which consists of C-average students, with 7,364 of a possible 10,000 points. Teammate Haghighi earned a silver medal in the Honors Division for A students with 8,370. Kuo won a gold medal in the Honors Division for music, while Wittenberg captured a gold in Varsity for science. Ching was the top Varsity competitor with 955 points out of 1,000. As Super Quiz Relay awards were announced following the morning relay contest - when students faced five questions under hot lights - parents cheered and waved blue pompoms as soon as second-place New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). won, knowing that El Camino was running neck-and-neck with Texas. Third place in the Super Quiz went to a trio of schools representing Illinois, Georgia and Oklahoma. El Camino placed second in the overall Super Quiz contest that included a written portion. ``I'm excited that we held on, that we stayed on top,'' said Cerone. ``In the whole competition, I didn't feel that we've taken any hits.'' The Super Quiz was marred by the decathlon officials' suspicion that El Camino team member Dennis Kuo's ``nervous twitches'' were hand signals to help teammates onstage. Halfway through the event, two officials stood in front of the stage to block the view from the California chair. ``I was wondering why they were looking at us and nobody else,'' said Kuo. No actual charges were leveled against the team, and California Academic Decathlon Director Judy Combs complained about the officials' action. ``They thought we were cheating, which is so stupid,'' said teammate Giles. Students, coaches and El Camino Principal Ron Bauer complained that most competitors had written the answer by the time the question was read, and that many of the teams in the audience were even more animated than El Camino students. The Super Quiz Relay represents only a small portion of the contest's overall possible score of 60,000 points from 10 categories: math, economics, science, language and literature, music, art, speech, interview, essay and the Super Quiz. Each student can earn a possible 10,000 points, and officials tally the scores of the top two Varsity, Scholastic and Honors students An honors student is a student in elementary, middle, or high school recognized for achieving high grades. Honors students are recognized on lists published periodically throughout the school year, known as "honor rolls". to compute the overall score. Team member Samantha Henry, who was among five students who scored perfect five correct answers out of five questions, danced up and down after the Super Quiz win, waving her philosophy, religion and psychology resource guide, saying, ``I don't need this anymore! I don't need this anymore!'' CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Dolores Dolores (or Delores) was a common given name (until the 1960s in the USA); it is cognate with the English word "dolorous" (meaning sorrowful) and equivalent in meaning. Deutsch hugs grandson Alan Wittenberg of El Camino after the Super Quiz Saturday in Anchorage. Al Grillo/Special to the Daily News (2) El Camino Real's Aria Haghighi looks toward his team after answering correctly during the super quiz portion of the U.S. Decathlon in Anchorage, Alaska on Saturday. |
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