{"id":23699,"date":"2023-03-30T10:41:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T17:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=23699"},"modified":"2023-03-31T10:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T17:47:39","slug":"california-academic-decathlon-results-for-esperanza-and-valencia-high-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=23699","title":{"rendered":"California Academic Decathlon results for Esperanza and Valencia high schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Esperanza High School<\/strong> (pictured above)<br>Esperanza High School recently had nine students participate in the California Academic Decathlon (CAD) virtual competition. Overall, the team had an impressive showing, earning 11 medals.\u00a0 Here are the results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alex Tumakay<\/strong> = Bronze Medal in Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Justine Koo<\/strong> = Bronze Medal in Math and Silver Medal in Music<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ella Reynoza<\/strong> = Silver Medals in Economics, Math and Music<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthew Hoang<\/strong> = Bronze Medals in Art &amp; Music; Silver Medals in Literature &amp; Math<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthew Hoang also earned bronze overall individual (meaning he had the 3rd highest score in the state&#8217;s virtual team competition).&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is very difficult to earn medals at this level since it includes several of the best schools in the entire state of California. Way to go, EHS!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Valencia High School<\/strong><br>VHS Academic Decathlon placed 12th overall in the state of California. This is one of the school&#8217;s best-ever finishes! Considering California is by far the most competitive state in the U.S., this likely puts VHS somewhere in the top ~50-75 teams in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team was led by team captain senior\u00a0<strong>Arushi Somani<\/strong>\u00a0(Gold medal in speech) and overall top scorer sophomore\u00a0Saebyeok Keum, who received the highest-ever total score for a VHS sophomore.\u00a0<strong>Arushi<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Saebyeok<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Nathan Lee<\/strong>\u00a0(junior) and\u00a0<strong>Rini Dagli<\/strong>\u00a0(junior) also received bronze K-Club honors for achieving scores over 7,000 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remaining starters&nbsp;<strong>Asher McCathern<\/strong>&nbsp;(junior),&nbsp;<strong>Aina Pan<\/strong>&nbsp;(junior),&nbsp;<strong>Grace Cortez<\/strong>&nbsp;(senior),&nbsp;<strong>Lily Gabriel-Rogel<\/strong>&nbsp;(senior), and&nbsp;<strong>Perseus Sannah&nbsp;<\/strong>(senior) were also key contributors, raising their scores from the county competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several Tigers also competed in the online individual state competition. These students brought home the school&#8217;s best-ever medal count (#4 out of all competing schools) for the online competition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Ryan Lin<\/strong>&nbsp;(Junior): Economics (Gold), Lit (Bronze)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Irene Pan&nbsp;<\/strong>(Freshman): Social Science (Gold), Lit (Silver), Art (Bronze)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Perseus Sannah<\/strong>&nbsp;(Senior): Lit (Gold), Social Science (Silver)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Darshil Vaishnav<\/strong>&nbsp;(Senior): Science (Silver)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Aarushi Verma<\/strong>\u00a0(Junior): Math (Gold)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Great work, Tigers! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esperanza High School (pictured above)Esperanza High School recently had nine students participate in the California Academic Decathlon (CAD) virtual competition. 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