Academic Decathlon

What is Academic Decathlon?

  • The  Academic Decathlon is a ten-event scholastic competition for teams of high school students.

    Each high school enters a team of nine students: 3 "A" or Honor students (3.80 - 4.00 GPA), 3 "B" or Scholastic students (3.20 - 3.799 GPA), and 3 "C or below" Varsity students (0.00 - 3.199 GPA).
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    United States Academic Decathlon® Curricular Topics for 2024–2025!

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    United States Academic Decathlon® Curricular Topics for 2024–2025!

    The U.S. Academic Decathlon® is excited to announce that the overall curricular theme for 2024–2025 will be Our Changing Climate. Following is some general information on the topics in each of the subject areas.
     

    • ART: The art curriculum will offer an introduction to environmental and environmentalist art.
    • ECONOMICS: The economics curriculum will cover fundamental economic concepts, microeconomics, and macroeconomics and will include a thematic section on the economics of climate change.
    • LITERATURE: The literature curriculum will present an introduction to environmental literature and will include critical reading, one long work of literature, and selected shorter works. The long work of literature will be Solar Storms by Linda Hogan.
    • MATHEMATICS: The mathematics curriculum will provide an overview of permutations, combinations, algebra and statistics.*
    • MUSIC: The music curriculum will focus on the topic of music and the natural world.
    • SCIENCE: The science topic will be an introduction to environmental science.
    • SOCIAL SCIENCE: The social science topic will be climate change in the past and present.