Palo Verde High School - Olympian Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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.3 Competition Tough In Academic World The potato farmers! The potato farmers! Everybody knows that! These screams could be heard echoing out from hundreds of Academic Decathlon members throughout Southern Arizona. Umm, to be pretty frank, the Academic Decathlon sounds like a drag. I thought so too, until I got to the competition. Man-o-man, it is so com- petitive it's incredible. Doing well on the English test is as important as runn- ing the 440 meter at your fastest in track, commented Renee Giblin Competition. There were all kinds of people involved in the Decathlon- athletes, brains and everything in- between The team consisted of 6 members and 3 alternates. They met once a week for almost a year before the competi- tion began, to study math, English, science, economics and fine arts. Then, on a Saturday, all the teams from many different schools got together for a meeting of the minds. All day they took tests about EVERYTHING, with a central theme about immigration. At the end of the day the major ' competition took place, The Super Quiz . The teams were judged on their knowlege about immigra- tion, thus the potato farmers. Model United Nations members were given the chance to give a speech on Rights of Youth . at the twenty-fourth annual Model United Nations con- vention. The convention was held on Feb. 14 and 15. Chosen to give the speech was Junior Erika Unangst. Palo Verde had only been in Model UN for two years, so it was an honor for a PV student to be chosen to speak. Palo Verde represented Japan, St. Vin- cent, and Grenadines. Academic Decathlon!Model UN 115

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U1 Pauline Miller, President of the Model United Nations Club, goes over some material and begins studying with another member. fPhoto by S. Wagnerj 01 Renee Giblin, a member of the Academic Decathlon team, pauses to get some feedback from a fellow team member on the speech she wrote on the importance of potato farmers. fPhoto by T Nelsonj U1 A member of the Model United Nations Club, Amy Wilson, reacts to a n friend 's humorous answer during a convention. fPhoto by C. Cowan! 141 Heather Julseth and Anna Sommerville, two members of Model UN, are found in a crowd on their way to an important meeting. iPhoto by S. Wagnerj 114 Organizations .VIII -Fu'-'ara..1mfmi...l

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Ill Tony Sepulveda and John Johnson put up display for the DECA room. iPhoto by P Kacinj 01 DECA: Front row: Yvonne Bolger, Jack Shaub, Laura Watson, Teresa Smith, Teref Baker, Judy Morley. Second row: Mr. M Candless, Theresa Favara, Tracy Nelson, Gran Gunn, Mary Ledesma, Beatriz Escobedo, Tor Sepulveda. Back row: Declan Wyrick, Joh Johnson, Rafael Padilla, David Nord, Li: Williams, Greg Johnson, Beto Torres, Melis: Lopez. iPhoto by S. Forresrj 131 Tony Sepulveda and Rafael Padilla admii the trophies from past DECA members in hopi that they will rack up the same impressive displt a Z in the future. iPhoto by N. Kacinj Ml John Johnson works hard on the new displ for the window of the DECA room. fPhoIo N. Kacinj T51 Beatriz Escobedo watches intently as McCandless shows her how he wants the to look. iPhoto by N. Kacinj