{"id":3732,"date":"2016-03-23T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2016-03-24T09:54:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T16:54:41","slug":"valencias-academic-decathlon-team-competes-at-state-earns-several-individual-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=3732","title":{"rendered":"Valencia&#8217;s Academic Decathlon Team competes at state, earns several individual medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Valencia High School Academic Decathlon Team. After taking second place overall in the county competition and first place in Super Quiz, the team represented Orange County in the state competition in Sacramento from March 17 to March 20.<\/p>\n<p>The team finished 17th in the state (69 teams competed) with 50,853 points!<\/p>\n<p>Valencia was also the second highest-ranking team from Orange County. Our decathletes earned the following 12 individual medals:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Joyce Chew<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gold Medal in Math (perfect score of 1,000!)<\/li>\n<li>Bronze Medal in Economics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jordan Ehrman<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bronze Medal in Music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Linda Feregrino<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gold Medal in Interview (perfect score of 1,000!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jacob Leiken<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bronze Medal in Science<\/li>\n<li>Bronze Medal in Social Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Andrew Nguyen<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gold Medal in Interview<\/li>\n<li>Gold Medal in Speech<\/li>\n<li>Silver Medal in Art<\/li>\n<li>Silver Medal in Science<\/li>\n<li>Bronze Medal in Economics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More importantly, Andrew became the first person in the history of Valencia High School to place overall in Division 1 earning a Silver Medal in the Honors Category.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-andrew-nguyen.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3769\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3769\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-andrew-nguyen-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"valencia-academic-decathlon-andrew-nguyen\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-andrew-nguyen-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-andrew-nguyen-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-andrew-nguyen.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Academic Decathlon Team members are Sienna Chen, Joyce Chew, Jordan Ehrman, Linda Feregrino, Jacob Leiken, Andrew Nguyen, Tiffanie Nguyen and Rojan Rijal. The team is coached by Danielle Connor, Mindi Foote, Fred Jenkins, Kay Kerby and Sam Myovich.<\/p>\n<p>Go Tigers!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3761\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3761\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"valencia-academic-decathlon-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3762\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3762\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-2-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"valencia-academic-decathlon-2\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-2-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-2.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3763\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3763\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-3-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"valencia-academic-decathlon-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-3-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-3.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-6.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3766\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3766\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-6-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"valencia-academic-decathlon-6\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-6-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/valencia-academic-decathlon-6.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Valencia High School Academic Decathlon Team. After taking second place overall in the county competition and first place in Super Quiz, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177,15],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","category-school-district","tag-valencia-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}