JUNIOR HIGH STUDENTS TEST WITS AT CONTEST\Chaminade College Prep takes overall title.Byline: Marni McEntee Daily News Staff Writer Chaminade College Preparatory of Woodland Hills won first place overall Saturday in the Junior High Academic Decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. , an annual competition for students from 40 Catholic schools in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , organizers said. The San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley 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 took top honors in the contest, which included two team events and eight individual events, said coordinator Mark Ryan, vice principal of Pius X-St. Matthias High School in Downey, where the competition was held. Ryan said the competitions are meant to give students an opportunity, outside of athletic competition, to test their mettle. Team events help them develop collaboration skills they can use after graduation, he said. More than 400 students competed in two team events: the Logic Quiz, in which eight to 10 students would face 20 logic problems; and the Super Quiz, in which team members answered questions on current events, Old Testament prophets, algebra, environmental science and the novel "The Giver," by Lois Lowry. They went head to head in math, science, civics civics, branch of learning that treats of the relationship between citizens and their society and state, originally called civil government. With the large immigration into the United States in the latter half of the 19th cent. , English grammar and spelling, extemporaneous ex·tem·po·ra·ne·ous adj. 1. Carried out or performed with little or no preparation; impromptu: an extemporaneous piano recital. 2. speech, literature, religion and geography. Several other Valley schools placed in the top 10 overall, including St. Euphrasia Euphrasia (eyebright) is a genus of about 450 species of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Orobanchaceae (formerly treated in the family Scrophulariaceae), with a cosmopolitan distribution. They are semi-parasitic on grasses. in Granada Hills, which placed 10th; St. Finbar of Burbank, which placed ninth; and Our Lady of Lourdes The apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes began when Bernadette Soubirous, a 14-year old peasant girl from Lourdes, when questioned by her mother, admitted that she had seen a "lady" in the cave of Massabielle, about a mile from the town, on 11 February, 1858, while she was gathering in Tujunga, which placed eighth, Ryan said. Other first-place winners from the Valley included Chaminade student Joyce Hsieh, who won in the literature event; and Michael Keane of St. Finbar, who took top honors in civics. Second place in civics was awarded to Jennifer McDermott of Notre Dame Academy Notre Dame Academy may refer to:
St. Finbar student Kary Vanderborght won first place in the speech category. Victor Masie of St. Euphrasia won second place in the science category and classmate Kelly Lazarus took third place in the English category, Ryan said. Students from St. Catherine of Siena in Woodland Hills won second place in the Logic Quiz team event, Ryan said. CAPTION(S): PHOTO Photo (1) Neil Milan, 13, concentrates before giving his answer. (2) Brendan Farrell, 14, of the St. Euphrasia team buries his face after his team gave an incorrect answer during the Super Quiz. (3) Erin Brennan of St. Didacus agonizes trying to decide on an answer. (4) Annalisa Allen, left, Natassia Nazario, Jessica Welbaum and Brenda Russell of St. Didacus cheer a correct answer Saturday during an academic decathlon sponsored by 40 area Catholic schools. Evan Yee/Daily News |
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