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FHS Academic Decathlon team wins big

Damon Gallegos

Special to the Village News

Fallbrook Union High School students participated in the San Diego County Academic Decathlon awards ceremony, March 1. Weeks prior, these students had participated in the decathlon competition that tested them in 10 areas: art, economics, essay writing, interview, literature, mathematics, music, science, social science, and speech.

Every year, the national organization chooses a theme to base the entire competition on. This year's theme was "Water: A Most Essential Resource." All subjects consisted of questions based on water.

FUHS had varsity, scholastic, and honors teams compete, with each team being dictated by students' academic grade point average. The full team consisted of Jacob Mendenhall and Damon Gallegos for varsity, Jason Rodriguez and Chloe Shaver for scholastic; and Anthony Wilson, Trenton Yang, and Timothy Marshburn for the honors team. The team coaches consist of Debora Berg, Emily White, and Tracy Markham.

As a team, FUHS achieved second place overall, as well as first place in Literature and Mathematics. Mendenhall placed as the overall best scorer for Fallbrook, and all students competing. Shaver placed as the top scorer for the scholastic students in the competition.

In the area of art, Mendenhall earned a silver medal in varsity. In the area of economics, Mendenhall and Gallegos tied for the silver medal in varsity; Shaver earned the gold medal in scholastic, and Wilson earned the bronze medal in honors. In the area of essay writing, Jacob earned gold in varsity; Shaver earned gold in scholastic, and Marshburn earned gold in the honors division.

In the area of Interview, Mendenhall earned the silver medal in varsity; Shaver earned the bronze medal in scholastic, and Rodriguez earned the silver medal in scholastic. In the area of literature, Mendenhall earned the silver medal in varsity; Rodriguez earned the bronze medal in scholastic; Shaver earned the gold medal in scholastic, and Wilson earned the bronze medal in honors.

In the area of mathematics, Gallegos earned the bronze medal in varsity; Mendenhall earned the gold medal in varsity; Shaver earned the silver medal in scholastic, and Rodriguez earned the gold medal in scholastic. In the area of music, Mendenhall earned the gold medal in varsity; Rodririguez earned the bronze medal in scholastic, and Shaver earned the gold medal in scholastic.

In the area of science, Mendenhall earned the silver medal in varsity; Rodriguez earned the silver medal in scholastic; Shaver earned the silver medal in scholastic, and Wilson earned the bronze medal in honors. In the area of social science, Mendenhall earned a bronze medal in varsity, and Wilson earned the silver medal in honors. Finally, in the area of speech giving, Mendenhall earned the bronze medal in honors, and Shaver earned the gold medal in scholastic.

 

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