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NPHS Academic Decathlon wins its 8th consecutive Regional Title.

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The 2017 North Penn High School Academic Decathlon teams poses for a picture after the 8th consecutive Regional Championship.

It was another impressive showing of academic talents for North Penn High School this weekend as Academic Decathlon stole the show at the Regional Competition. North Penn defeated their nearest opponent by over 3000 points  and won the regional competition for the 8th year in a row.

And winning a record 62 individual medals in the ten subjects.

North Penn had 6 of the 9 high scorers in the region: Connie Jiang, John Bogert, Alex Goldberg, Matt Orefice, Justin Orefice and Nathaniel Maier

The following individual awards were claimed by team North Penn.

HONORS:

Connie Jiang:

Gold — Art, Speech, Essay

Silver — Overall, Music, Lang-lit,

Bronze — Econ

Brittany Wylie:

Gold — Lang-lit

Silver — Art

Bronze — Science and Interview

Yang Yue:

Gold — Math     ——– ( perfect score of 1000 points)

Silver — Speech, Interview, Social Science

Bronze — Lang-lit, Social Science, Art, Music

 

SCHOLASTICS:

John Bogert:

Gold — Essay, Music, Art, Speech, Interview, Overall

Silver — Lang-lit, Social Science

Bronze — Math

Alex Goldberg:

Gold — Lang-lit, Science

Silver — Speech, Interview, Econ, Essay, Overall

Bronze — Math, Music

Matt Orefice:

Gold — Econ

Silver — Social Science, Science

Bronze — Overall, Math, Lang-lit

 

VARSITY:

Justin Orefice:

Gold — Lang-lit, Science, Overall, Art, Social Science, Econ, Math

Silver — Interview

Bronze — Music

Nathaniel Maier:

Gold — Interview

Silver — Essay, speech, art, socsci,

Bronze — langlit, econ

Sean Collins:

Silver – Speech

Bronze  – Math, Econ, Science

The state team will be comprised of: Connie Jiang, Yang Yue, Brittany Wylie, John Bogert, Alex Goldberg, Matt Orefice, Justin Orefice, Dan Sibel and Nathaniel Maier.

The Academic Decathlon State Competition will be held  at NPHS March 3-4 .