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AcaDeca students compete, win awards 

Highlights March 23, 2022

Candice Anvari  co-editor-in-chief  Ava Spina staff writer  The Academic Decathlon team competed in a virtual state competition, which had a theme of “Water,”  from March 1...

Photo courtesy of Aghigh Banitaba.

AcaDeca recruits new members, confirm water as upcoming theme

Highlights May 24, 2021

Defne Onal staff writer  The Academic Decathlon (AcaDeca) team is recruiting members for next year. Although having had trouble with recruiting “varsity” members in time for the upcoming competition...

Image courtesy of Aghigh Banitaba.

AcaDeca wins medals, goes to state

Highlights April 5, 2021

Defne Onal staff writer   After competing at the regional competition, AcaDeca had its award ceremony on Feb. 18. Across their team of nine, AcaDeca received 20 medals. Due to their accomplishments...

Image courtesy of Aghigh Banitaba.

AcaDeca team competes in Regionals, adapts to online platform

Highlights January 30, 2021

Defne Onal staff writer The Academic Decathlon (AcaDeca) Regional competition is taking place over the dates of Jan. 23 to Feb. 6 with Zoom links provided by Los Angeles County. AcaDeca competitions are a...

For a long time, there has been a misconception that Acadeca only accepts
members of a high GPA. “The biggest misconception I can think of is that people think that you have to have super high grades and be a perfect student. We actually need people with lower GPAs to compete,” junior Clement Murphy said.

AcaDeca is not just for A-students

Highlights December 1, 2020

                Defne Onal staff writer There has been a long-standing misconception that AcaDeca is only for students with higher GPAs. This information is false...

Aca Deca places fourth in division, claims over two dozen medals

Aca Deca places fourth in division, claims over two dozen medals

Highlights March 31, 2018

Brian Harward staff writer The Academic Decathlon team placed fourth in Division 3 at the State Aca Deca Competition. They claimed a total of 24 medals, with Timothy Kim, Katie Wu, Noah Pals and Daniel...

AcaDeca competes in county competition

Highlights February 6, 2018

Sophia Goldberg sports editor The AcaDeca team completed in the Academic Decathlon Los Angeles County Competition, which took place on Jan. 27 and Feb. 3. Scores will be announced for both the subjective...

The AcaDeca team poses after a day of competition on Jan. 30. From left to right: front row: Grace DeLee, Mary Yoo, Aleks Recupero, Sam Schwartz, Nandini Murali. Back row: Mishelle Arakelian, Sabrina Halavi, Jeremy Segal, Jonathan Gunn, Kenya James, Eric Han. Photo courtesy of Sam Schwartz.

AcaDeca participates at county competition

Highlights February 2, 2016

Sophia Goldberg staff writer After completing the first part of the Los Angeles County Competition, the AcaDeca competition team reflects on the opening of their competition season and looks forward to...

Students study and quiz each other on the various study topics after school one day before their scrimmage. From left to right: junior Nandini Murali, junior Sam Schwartz, junior Grace DeLee, senior Aleks Recupero, senior Jonathan Gunn, and junior Jeremy Segal.

Academic Decathlon team outcompetes opponents in preseason scrimmage

Highlights November 16, 2015

Sophia Goldberg staff writer The Academic Decathlon team competed in their first scrimmage of the year at West High School in Torrance on Nov. 14 after months of practicing after school and on Saturdays. Scoring...

AcaDeca places at Sacramento

Highlights March 25, 2015

Ben Shofet, graphics editor  In their final competition of the year, the Academic Decathlon team (AcaDeca) placed in sixth in the state of California and 11th in the nation at the Sacramento state finals...

Academic Decathlon places third, moves as wild card to State competition

Highlights February 14, 2012

News in brief: On Thursday, Feb. 9, the Academic Decathlon team placed third in the Los Angeles County competition held at the University of Southern California.  This qualified the team as a wild card,...

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