Contestants in this year’s San Bernardino County Academic Decathlon competition will learn later this week who won the title.
Fifteen teams from schools across the county completed the contest Saturday, Feb. 1, when the gameshow-style Super Quiz was held at Alta Loma High School in Rancho Cucamonga.
This year’s winner will have to get past Ontario’s Chaffey High School, which has won the competition for the past three years.
Awards, including the Super Quiz winner and the overall champion, will be named Thursday, Feb. 6, during a 7:30 p.m. event at the DoubleTree hotel in Ontario.
The decathlon involves teams of high school students competing in 10 academic events and the Super Quiz. This year’s theme was “Our Changing Climate.”
The winning team will move onto the California Academic Decathlon on March 20 through March 23 in Santa Clara. California’s champion will advance to the United States Academic Decathlon, set for May 1 through May 3, in Des Moines, Iowa.
San Bernardino County schools that competed were:
- Alta Loma High School, Rancho Cucamonga
- Aquinas High School, San Bernardino
- Chaffey High School, Ontario
- Colony High School, Ontario
- Eisenhower High School, Rialto
- Etiwanda High School, Rancho Cucamonga
- Kaiser High School, Fontana
- Montclair High School
- Ontario High School
- Rancho Cucamonga High School
- Redlands East Valley High School
- Redlands High School
- Rialto High School
- San Gorgonio High School, San Bernardino
- Summit High School, Fontana
Each school, except for Kaiser, fielded two teams. Kaiser had one.
