SHS Academic Decathlon Team places First Runner-up in Medium School Competition
Launch the media gallery 1 playerThe SHS Academic Decathlon Team competed in the Regional Ne Academic Decathlon Competition - January 18, 2023 in an on-line contest, due to cancellation of school that day because of snow. The SHS Academic Decathlon Team Members included Eli Adams, Jackson Anderson, Dharma Brauer, Noah Brumm, Jacob DeGroot, Ainsley Hotovy, Lydia Lobmeyer, Jacob Mason, Ben Meehl, Austin Schroeder, Luke Wegman, and Ethan Woolard. They were coached by SHS Educator Noelle Baker.
The team was sponsored locally by the School District of Seward High Ability Learner program and the Seward Optimist Club. Optimist club members serve as the test monitors and furnished the team with new AD team tee shirts.
AD Team members-SHS Seniors - Lydia Lobmeyer and Anisley Hotovy attended the recent Optimist Club meeting with coach Noelle Baker and reported on the experience, thanking the Seward Optimist Club for their support. The students and Mrs. Baker were each thanked for their presentation and presented with gift certificates from the Seward Dairy Queen.
The students each competed in a series of tests including math, literature, language, art, music, economics, science and social science-all on line. Awards and medals were presented to the students in the three areas of Honors, Scholastic and Varsity levels. The novel studied this year was “Wieland” or “The Transformation of An American Tale.” The theme for this year’s contest was “The American Revolution and the New Nation.”
The results were as followed with the Seward Team capturing a record 53 medals in the tourney and named First Runner-up Medium School Division.
The top team Seward Team Top Scorer was Luke Wegman
Regular Team Alternates
Art - Test One
Varsity Division 1st Jacob Mason 1st Ben Meehl
3rd Jackson Anderson
Scholastic Division 1st Ainsley Hotovy 3rd Jacob DeGroot
Honors Division 1st Lydia Lobmeyer 3rd Luke Wegman
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Literature - Test One
Varsity 1st Jacob Mason 1st Ben Meehl
Scholastic 3rd Ainsley Hotovy 3rd Noah Brumm
Honors 3rd Lydia Lobmeyer 2nd Luke Wegman
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Music
Varsity 2nd Jacob Mason 1st Ben Meehl
Scholastic 2nd Ainsley Hotovy 2nd Noah Brumm
3rd Jacob DeGroot
Honors 2nd Eli Adams
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Math
Varsity 1st Jackson Anderson
3rd Ben Meehl
Scholastic 1st Ainsley Hotovy 1st Noah Brumm
3rd Jacob DeGroot
Honors 2nd Austin Schroeder
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Economics
Varsity 1st Jacob Mason 2nd Ben Meehl
Scholastic 1st Ainsley Hotovy 3rd Jacob DeGroot
Honors 3rd Luke Wegman
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Science
Varsity 2nd Jacob Mason 2nd Jackson Anderson
3rd Ben Meehl
Scholastic 3rd Ainsley Hotovy 2nd Jacob DeGroot
3rd Noah Brumm
Honors 2nd Luke Wegman
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Social Science
Varsity 2nd Jacob Mason 3rd Ben Meehl
Scholastic 3rd Jacob DeGroot
Honors 1st Luke Wegman
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Art - Test Two
Varsity Division
Scholastic Division 3rd Ainsley Hotovy
Honors Division 3rd Lydia Lobmeyer
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Literature - Test Two
Varsity
Scholastic 2nd Ainsley Hotovy
Honors 3rd Lydia Lobmeyer
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Medium Sized School Regionals Finals Placement included -1st Gross Catholic, 2nd Seward and 3rd Alliance. Omaha Gross did advance to the state contest. State bound schools included
Bellevue East, Creighton Prep, Gross Catholic, Omaha Central, Cozad, Duschene, Mount Michael, Brownell Talbot, Mead, NE Lourdes, Hyannis, and Ravenna[C1] .
Photo: L-R SHS student Lydia Lobmeyer, Seward Optimist President Gaylea Sturgis, SHS Senior Anisley Hotovy and SHS Coach Noelle Baker.