St. Raymond School 8th graders find success in the Academic Decathlons
A group of amazing St. Raymond School 8th grade students recently participated in the Regional and National Academic Decathlons. In Regionals, the school came in First place overall, and in Nationals they came in second place in Logic!
For Regionals, St. Raymond competed with 18 teams from San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz and Oakland Catholic schools. The competition consisted of two team events — a logic quiz with 20 rigorous thinking problems and a super quiz with 50 multiple choice questions covering five broad academic themes – Science, Religion, Literature, Fine Arts, and Social Studies. There were also eight individual events testing knowledge of Religion, English, Literature, Science, Mathematics, Current Events, Social Studies and Fine Arts.
In addition to placing first overall, St. Raymond placed first in Logic and second in Super Quiz. For individual subjects, they placed first in Social Studies (Julian Winegar), second in Religion (Siena Winegar), second in Science (Thomas Kane) and third place in Mathematics (James Wright).
Regional winners advanced to the National competition which included over 287 decathletes from winning teams from across the country, including California, Texas, Colorado, Massachusetts, Illinois, Washington, Virginia, and Arizona. The National event was a daylong test conducted online.
A special thank you to Mrs. Glanville for her leadership, support, and guidance to the entire team. Additional thanks to faculty members, Mr. Sullivan and Sister Ann, and parent coaches, Emma Kane, Brenda Moreno, Lisa Wright, Nomita Divi, Michael Dal Poggetto, and Olga Winegar. A special acknowledgement to Kiki Boyd, Blair Porteous, Shannon Avina and Dr. David Geraghty.
Congrats to all! See picture from Regionals above.
Front row:
Matteo Dal Poggetto, James Wright, Julian Winegar, Thomas Kane, Nate Avina, Celia Hoffman, Catie Williams, Adrianna Ananyi
Front row:
Annie Boyd (Super Quiz Captain), Siena Winegar, Sana Kalidindi, Jaime Rio, Alexis Allen, Ellie Boyd (Logic Captain)
Not pictured: Nicholas Chase, Jackson Knapp, Brady Weyer, Henry Husak, Sean Moritz
You can watch a video of the online awards ceremony here.
