The California Academic Decathlon Championship needs a few good volunteers this month for the virtual competitive event, modeled after the Olympics to stimulate academic achievement and honor “athletes of the mind.”
For the past 41 years, CAD has provided this country’s most prestigious academic competition thanks to the support of our volunteers, Ken Scarberry, state event director, said in a press release issued Wednesday.
The competition, featuring some 650 students from 78 California high schools, consists of 10 events, including tests in art, music, language and literature, mathematics, economics, science, and social science, he noted.