{"id":5356,"date":"2016-06-10T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=5356"},"modified":"2016-06-10T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T16:20:24","slug":"esperanza-academic-decathlon-team-places-first-in-division-fifth-overall-at-county-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=5356","title":{"rendered":"Esperanza Academic Decathlon Team places first in division, fifth overall at county competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esperanza High School&#8217;s junior varsity (JV) Academic Decathlon Team did remarkably well in the 9th\/10th grade Orange County Academic Decathlon competition on Saturday, May 21.<\/p>\n<p>The team placed first overall team in Division 2. Also, out of 19 participating schools, Esperanza was fifth overall.<\/p>\n<p>The students earned 59 individual medals (the most medals they have ever earned at a single competition). EHS also placed first and fourth in team Super Quiz (where students get to collaborate on questions and answer using transponders).<\/p>\n<p>Esperanza had 16 team members this year: Mahrooz Ahmad, Emilee Carr, Kevin Choi, Gauri Deepa-Sreelal, Michael Endo, Sara Gonzalez, MIsha Hoang, Matthew Ignacio, Katie Kuwahara, Angie Long, Emily Macedo, Catie Mullner, Grace Nguyen, Emily Pandhi, Shivani Valand and Jessica Youssef.<\/p>\n<p>Individual results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grace Nguyen<\/strong>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">first place Overall Individual<\/span><br \/>\nFirst place in Art<br \/>\nFirst place in Mathematics<br \/>\nFirst place in Music<br \/>\nFirst place in Science<br \/>\nSecond place in Language and Literature<br \/>\nSecond place in Social Science<br \/>\nFourth place in Essay<\/li>\n<li><strong>Katie Kuwahara<\/strong>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">second place Overall Individual<\/span><br \/>\nFirst place in Art<br \/>\nFirst place in Language and Literature<br \/>\nFirst place in Science<br \/>\nSecond place in Music<br \/>\nSecond place in Social Science<br \/>\nThird place in Speech<br \/>\nFifth place in Essay<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Endo<\/strong>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">second place Overall Individual<\/span><br \/>\nFirst place in Language and Literature<br \/>\nFirst place in Social Science<br \/>\nSecond place in Art<br \/>\nSecond place in Essay<br \/>\nThird place in Mathematics<br \/>\nThird place in Music<br \/>\nFourth place in Science<br \/>\nFifth place in Speech<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gauri Deepa-Sreelal<\/strong>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">third place Overall Individual<\/span><br \/>\nFirst place in Social Science<br \/>\nSecond place in Language and Literature<br \/>\nThird place in Music<br \/>\nFourth place in Art<br \/>\nFifth place in Science<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew Ignacio<\/strong>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fourth place Overall Individual<\/span><br \/>\nSecond place in Art<br \/>\nSecond place in Essay<br \/>\nThird place in Mathematics<br \/>\nFourth place in Language and Literature<br \/>\nFourth place in Science<br \/>\nFifth place in Music<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sara Gonzalez<\/strong>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fifth place Overall Individual<\/span><br \/>\nThird place in Science<br \/>\nFourth place in Art<br \/>\nFourth place in Social Science<br \/>\nFifth place in Mathematics<br \/>\nFifth place in Music<br \/>\nFifth place in Language and Literature<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emily Macedo<\/strong><br \/>\nSecond place in Speech<br \/>\nFifth place in Mathematics<br \/>\nFifth place in Music<br \/>\nFifth place in Social Science<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emilee Carr<\/strong><br \/>\nSecond place in Language and Literature<br \/>\nFourth place in Social Science<br \/>\nFifth place in Speech<\/li>\n<li><strong>Catie Mullner<\/strong><br \/>\nThird place in Speech<br \/>\nFourth place in Language and Literature<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mahrooz Ahmad<\/strong><br \/>\nSecond place in Science<br \/>\nFourth place in Music<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jessica Youssef<\/strong><br \/>\nFourth place in Essay<\/li>\n<li><strong>Misha Hoang<\/strong><br \/>\nFifth place in Mathematics<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shivani Valand<\/strong><br \/>\nFifth place in Music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Valencia and El Dorado also placed in the top five overall scores. This is the first time that a single school district has placed three schools in the top five!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/esperanza-academic-decathlon-team-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5358\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/esperanza-academic-decathlon-team-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"esperanza-academic-decathlon-team-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/esperanza-academic-decathlon-team-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/esperanza-academic-decathlon-team-2.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/esperanza-academic-decathlon-team-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5359\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/esperanza-academic-decathlon-team-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"esperanza-academic-decathlon-team-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/esperanza-academic-decathlon-team-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/esperanza-academic-decathlon-team-3.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esperanza High School&#8217;s junior varsity (JV) Academic Decathlon Team did remarkably well in the 9th\/10th grade Orange County Academic Decathlon competition on Saturday, May 21&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177],"tags":[146],"class_list":["post-5356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","tag-esperanza-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356","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=5356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}