UPPER LAKE, Calif. – The Upper Lake High School Academic Decathlon team – winners at the county level – participated at the state competition earlier this month.
The 37th annual California Academic Decathlon was held March 17 to 20 in Sacramento.
Granada Hills Charter High School from the Los Angeles Unified School District won this year's competition, coming out on top of 69 competing schools in three divisions with a score of 61,149.6.
Upper Lake High won the Lake County Academic Decathlon Competition on Feb. 6, earning the right to travel to the state competition.
Competing in Division 3 for smaller schools, Upper Lake High finished No. 60, with a score of 36,051.5, according to the state academic decathlon competition results.
Mercedes De Los Santos was Upper Lake's highest scoring student, with 5,902.1 points.
In the interview competition, Katie Foster placed fourth in the scholastic division, with 990 points, according to event results.
This year's topic was India.
Teams consist of three members each from three academic levels: Honors, with a grade point average of 3.75 to 4.00; Scholastic, 3.00 to 3.74 GPA; and Varsity, GPA of 2.99 or below.
The 10 academic disciplines that make up the competition are arts, economics, essay, interview, language and literature, mathematics, music, science, social science and speech.
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Upper Lake High competes at State Academic Decathlon
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