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Welcome, This is the Yahoo! Message Board for Academic Decathlon community....
smiley_4312
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Jul 18, 1999
4:36 am
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Good luck to all students that will take that journey to qualifying for their school's Academic Decathlon teams....
etchuck
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Aug 23, 1999
2:09 pm
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If you are planning on designing a team web page, check out other teams' pages at <br><a href=http://www.cwru.edu/orgs/trivia/internet/adteams.html...
etchuck
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Sep 22, 1999
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you can check out my site at:<br><a href=http://community.webtv.net/decahlete/AcademicDecathlonat...
smiley_4312
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Nov 10, 1999
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At the end of this month Texas starts competing. I'm ready and have been studying to my fullest. All I've got left is to memorize my speech. Any tips on ...
mdawn_2000
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Jan 13, 2000
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I personally hate memorizing things, but it is unfortunately a necessary evil for speech to be competitive. As what most musicians do, you just have to keep ...
etchuck
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Jan 15, 2000
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So I think I'm prepared for running the Ohio state Decathlon championship this weekend. ... having coaches judge students in speeches and interviews. I am...
etchuck
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Jan 31, 2000
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This year's representative to USAD and San Antonio from the state of Ohio is Willoughby South High School, which successfully defended its state championship...
etchuck
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Feb 7, 2000
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Hi, I just joined. We've already competed in Kings County, CA, and I'm on the team that's going to State. I go to Lemoore High, and we've gone to state 16 out...
laughingworld
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Feb 10, 2000
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&lt;&lt; I go to Lemoore High, and we've gone to state 16 out of the 18 years Kings County's been doing this, although we never do any better than state. Our ...
etchuck
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Feb 11, 2000
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They ran our Art scores through the computer using the Music answer key. They had posted half of the scores before realizing their mistake. Then, they scored ...
laughingworld
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Feb 15, 2000
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Yipes. I should mince words a bit more, but to say it bluntly, that's pretty damn incompetent. I know the nuances of the computer program (or some of them...
etchuck
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Feb 15, 2000
8:21 pm
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I'm sure it will all work out and our local AD people will get the cotton out of their ears and listen to us. We really just want to know how we genuinely...
laughingworld
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Feb 17, 2000
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&lt;&lt; I'm sure it will all work out and our local AD people will get the cotton out of their ears and listen to us. We really just want to know how we ...
etchuck
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Feb 21, 2000
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I'm sure it'll work out and if it doesn't we're going to have some heavy duty complaining going on. As for now, we're just preparing for the State Competition...
laughingworld
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Feb 23, 2000
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Anyone else in here from California?<br><br>Heath...
laughingworld
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Feb 24, 2000
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I've just added a few pictures from Ohio Academic Decathlon's state tournament to the default photo album....
etchuck
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Mar 6, 2000
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Well, my team placed fifth in our division, 35th overall. I won a bronze in essay and a silver in music. One of our team members got four gold medals and a ...
laughingworld
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Mar 20, 2000
4:28 pm
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Congratulations. Of course, they haven't updated the California AD site either to let me know. :P...
etchuck
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Mar 22, 2000
5:06 pm
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is now posted on the USAD web site <a href=http://www.usad.org/ target=new>http://www.usad.org/</a> . Part of a three-year theme, this year's overarching topic...
etchuck
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Apr 6, 2000
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Sorry, but for the moment I'm limited to the Los Angeles Times report at <a href=http://www.latimes.com/editions/ventura/vcnews/20000417/t000036279.html...
etchuck
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Apr 17, 2000
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Just a general question out to you all: how were you guys recruited to participate in AD?<br><br>I also note that there are generally more women ...
etchuck
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Apr 27, 2000
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At my school, an announcement is made on the PA to invite people to apply to be on the team. The best candidates are interviewed. Then a testing day is held,...
ACADEC
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Apr 30, 2000
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We go through a three-step process. First, teachers recommend students based on potential/grades/work ethic. Second, around 75 kids are picked to take tests ...
dgavre
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May 4, 2000
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Another question for you all: what is your favorite impromptu speech topic and your least favorite?<br><br>I also want to get suggestions on what type of ...
etchuck
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May 6, 2000
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Favorite topic: "What is the one thing about Acadec that you would like to see removed and or changed?"<br><br>I told them that I wanted to get rid of the ...
ACADEC
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May 7, 2000
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I suppose here are a few zingers I remember... ... A few of the teams from more rural areas did not take too well with this topic being a choice. :) Those from...
etchuck
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May 8, 2000
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If you guys have HBO (which I don't actually), there is coming up this month an HBO original film entitled "Cheaters", regarding the scandal in 1995 at the ...
etchuck
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May 9, 2000
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Hrm...I wonder if I've actually posted here before...<br><br>At any rate, that incident and the aftermath still sits kinda strange for me...I was a member of...
Notbob
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May 12, 2000
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in Re:<br>:::::::::<br>One more thing to ask: most judges are savvy enough to figure out who is from what school. I don't know what one can do to prevent (us)...
Notbob
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May 12, 2000
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