Seward High Announces 2007-2008 Academic Decathlon Team

The 2007-2008 Seward High Academic Decathlon Team, sponsored locally by the

School District of Seward High Ability Learner Program and the Seward

Optimists, includes the following students....

Honors Division:

Alyssa McConnell

Ciara McCormack

Jake Weber

Kevin Jerger

Scholastic Division:

Tanner Smith

Hailey Behlen,

Aaron Powell,

Kirsten Kohlwey

Varsity Division:

Karl Luebbe,

Austin Taibemal,

Britton Miller,

Felicia Kolterman

The students will travel to Omaha on January 19th to compete in tests in

math, music, art, language and literature, science and history. They will

also compete in a Super Quiz Bowl. The 2007-08 theme is "The Civil War" and

the students are tested over the novel "The Red Badge of Courage."

The students will all take the same tests, however, they will only compete

with their grade point average division. Team awards and invididual awards

are presented at the end of the day. The top 25% of the teams will advance

to the state finals.

This is the tenth year that Seward High has participated in the contest.

Students are selected by their teachers, counselors, grade point average and

willingness to participate. All of the students submitted their grades to

the registrar at Creighton University for approval and are presented with

packets of information and a novel to study. The Seward Optimist Club also

sponsors team tee shirts for the students for the day of the event.

The local coach for the Seward Academic Decathlon Team is Clark Kolterman,

SHS instructor for English and Speech.

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