Archdiocesan
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Posted on Friday March 17, 2006
Hundreds Of Local Catholic Junior High School Students To Compete At Annual Decathlon At The Los Angeles Sports Arena
The 16th annual Los Angeles Archdiocese’s Academic Junior High Decathlon will be held March 18, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. In order to accommodate 110 competing schools, 1,100 student “decathletes� and more than 3,000 supporters the decathlon will be held for the first time in the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 3939 South Figueroa St., Los Angeles.
The decathlon is the largest junior high educational competition in Southern California featuring two team events: a rigorous logic quiz along with a super quiz finale that encompasses religion, literature, science, art, and geography. Individuals also face off in religion, math, social studies, science, fine arts, current events, literature, English, grammar and spelling.
The decathlon promotes academic preeminence and educational values at parochial schools, as well as cooperative learning skills, higher-order thinking and teamwork. Moreover, it celebrates the diversity and tradition of California’s Catholic schools both in the inner city as well as the suburbs.
“The Los Angeles Catholic Schools Decathlon has grown into the incomparable event it is today due to a shared vision — the affirmation and celebration of life in Catholic schools through a curriculum of community, prayer, learning, proclamation and service,� says Neil Quinly, chair of the 2006 event.
Decathlon tickets will be on sale at the Sports Arena March 18 for $10. For more information, contact Quinly at 213-637-7584.
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