Why Join an Academic Decathlon team?
Academic Decathlon is about daring to push your limits, to master college-level material and to practice skills, like public speaking, that might frighten you a bit. It's not about demonstrating how good a student you already are—it's about being willing to learn to be flexible, to solve problems, and to find new ways to learn. The Academic Decathlon is also about the people you’ll meet along the way—the competitors who will challenge you and the teammates who will become your lifelong friends.
You may study more than you ever have before, not knowing whether you will take home ten medals—or none at all. You'll compete alongside students of all abilities, both at your school and at the competition. You'll learn how to support and help each other, how to communicate, how to set and achieve goals. The philosopher Mortimer Adler once wrote, “It is only by struggling with difficult books, books over one's head, that anyone learns to read.” In Academic Decathlon, you learn—not just to read, but to understand; not just to win, but to lead.
Academic Decathlon is about daring to push your limits, to master college-level material and to practice skills, like public speaking, that might frighten you a bit. It's not about demonstrating how good a student you already are—it's about being willing to learn to be flexible, to solve problems, and to find new ways to learn. The Academic Decathlon is also about the people you’ll meet along the way—the competitors who will challenge you and the teammates who will become your lifelong friends.
You may study more than you ever have before, not knowing whether you will take home ten medals—or none at all. You'll compete alongside students of all abilities, both at your school and at the competition. You'll learn how to support and help each other, how to communicate, how to set and achieve goals. The philosopher Mortimer Adler once wrote, “It is only by struggling with difficult books, books over one's head, that anyone learns to read.” In Academic Decathlon, you learn—not just to read, but to understand; not just to win, but to lead.