Columbus Alternative High School - Pegasus Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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ACADEMIC DECATHALO Second Yennfmf Award Winning Tennz -Becky Iackson, Honor Student The Academic Decathlon is a competitive test of knowledge. Each team is made up of six to nine players. There must be two players and may be one alternate in each of 'three categories: Honors 14.00-3.50 GPAJ, Scholastic 13.50-3.00 GPAJ, and Varsity 13.00 GPA-Belowj. The ten events which make up the Decathlon are: an essay written before competition dayg the speech event, a four-minute prepared speech and a two-minute im- promptu presentation 5 an inter- viewg multiple choice tests in economics, English, science, history, mathematics, and art, and the Superquiz. The Superquiz is the final and probably most ex- citing event of the day. CAHS tied for third place in this year's Superquiz. A11 of the other events give in- dividual awardsg players are rank- ed against others in their category, rnslnvvm-ln: -www:-' 1 Pictured: Dan Bigelow. Cleveland. be it honors, scholastic, varsity or alternate. The 1987 team took awards in 8 of the 10 events for a total of 16 awards. This year's team was by Dave Loynachan and Carolyn Trigg, but several teachers found time to lecture the team. Columbus Alternative High School made itself known at the Ohio Academic Decathalon in Shaker Heights. Overall, the team placed fifth in the state. 4. alll' ACADEMIC DECATHLON TEAM - Sitting: Eric Wright, Jenifer Bo- janowski, Annesia Welch ffilternutesj Stan- ding: David Loynachan fCoachI,.Ienny Yeoh, Becky Jackson, Alia Covel, Matt Bardoe, Melissa Davis, Carolyn Trigg fCoachJ. Not And the quest begins. Annesia Welch is all packed as the team leaves CAHS for To pass the time. At the awards banquet, Becky Jackson keeps Eric Wright amused. ORGANIZATIONS: Academic Decathalon 105

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IN THE KNOW RESERVE - Ben Ling, Bill Yang, Barbara Bishop IAdvisorj, Cathryn Scott, Sean Cudgel. Not pictured: Matt Clayton, Charlie Miller. IN THE KNOW VARSITY - Aaron Wyckoff. falternutel, Eric Wright, Matt Bar- doe, Tony Yang, john Curry, Diana Waugh mdvisorl. y 'I H l - . B e I Q 1 THE K are Than az Qzzeftion mm' Amwer name VARSITY -Eric Wright, member Many people identify In The Know with a television program. However, most of these people haven't experienced an actual tap- ing. It's not what you would ex- pect. Here's what happened at one taping this year. Since it was a hot day and no one would see our legs, two of us decided to wear shorts. The host, Bill Shiffman, was not prepared for this and exclaimed, You must be f8r'V0Q'n me! But he recovered and we went on with the show. First, Bill tried to loosen us up by asking how our football teams were doing. We said ours was undefeated. Then we guessed our 104 ORGANIZATIONS: ln The Know final score in order to win prizes, including various used electronic devices and assorted cello parts. Next we filed to our places. Everyone had to be careful at this point because leaning back could have caused a serious fall since there was no railing. The plywood sets also had signs that said, DO NOT POUND! since they were liable to fall apart. Finally we got started with the taping. The only break in the action came at halftime when the floor manager ran around trying to find a box for one of the opposing coaches to stand on since she was too short. Eventually, after the waiting and wondering, we won the game. RESERVE -C. Scott and B. Yang, members Hands poised over mechanical buzzers, the CAHS Reserve In The Know Team practices for their up- coming competition. The team met twice a week after school and occa- sionally during lunch periods. Basically, Reserve is a training group for students interested in joining the Varsity Team. We prac- tice questions in all school subjects and try to outscore our other team members. The Reverse team competes in a league with other schools, such as Dublin and St. Charles, and this year we were undefeated. For this accomplishment we received a large trophy.

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