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2013-2014 Decathlon Season

Local Competition

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

 
Local Competition is held at numerous sites throughout the state with written tests in:

 

 
  •  Art
  •  Economics
  •  Language & Literature
  •  Mathematics
    
  • Music
  • Science
  • Social Science

 

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The overarching theme for the 2013-2014 season is "World War 1"                              

This year's selected novel:  The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The full curriculum can be viewed at www.usad.org

Flashing Red Bullet  2013-2014 Registration Form

2013-2014 Alternate Team Registration Form w/Policy

New schools to the program may be eligible for a Supply Grant. 

The grant provides the majority of study materials needed to start in the program.

Click Here to request more information.

Interested high schools may enter 9-member team(s) for the November Competition. 

Schools may register more than one team, but only one team can advance to the next level.  

Each 9-member team consists of:

  • Three "A" Honor Students  (3.75 - 4.00 GPA)
  • Three "B" Scholastic Students  (3.00 - 3.74 GPA)
  • Three "C" Varsity Students  (0.00 - 2.99 GPA)

Team registration continues from Mid-May through October 11, 2013. 

Team test sites will be assigned October 23, 2013.

Registration Information is mailed to all schools before the end of May.

Interested high schools must officially register and pay the entry fee per team for the Local Competition. Contact the WIAD Office  <mmarcks@cesa7.org>  for a free copy of this year's official study guide.

 

 

2013-2014 TEST SITE ASSIGNMENTS

Each Test Coordinator (listed below) will notify Local teams as to their assigned test site by October 24th.

TEST COORDINATOR
   
CESA 1
  
 
CESA 2
  
 
CESA 3
  
 
CESA 4
  
 
CESA 5
  
 
CESA 6
  
   
CESA 7
Margie Marcks   mmarcks@cesa7.org
   
CESA 8
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CESA 9
  
 
CESA 10
  
   
CESA 11
Cindy Becker   cindyb@cesa11.k12.wi.us
 
CESA 12
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COMPETITION DAY SCHEDULE 

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Generally the test day will begin at 9:00 a.m. and finish approximately 3 hours later.

Your starting time will be identified by your CESA - times may vary, but all tests

will be conducted in the morning.  Here is a tentative schedule:

 

TEAM REGISTRATION

8:30

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9:00 A.M.

ORIENTATION

9:00

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9:10

  Art

9:10

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9:30

  Language & Literature

9:35

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9:55

  Math

10:00

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10:30

BREAK

10:30

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10:45

  Economics

10:45

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11:05

  Science

11:10

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11:30

  Music

11:35

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11:55

 Social Science 12:00 - 12:20 P.M.

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School Size Divisions - Board Review May, 2011

All teams are assigned to a size division based on high school enrollment.

Next board review will be the spring of 2013.


The current division sizes are:

  •  Division 1 - 1250+ Enrollment
  •  Division 2 - 700 - 1249
  •  Division 3 - 285 - 699
  •  Division 4 - Under 285
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USAD® Calculator Policy for 2013-2014   

Graphing Calculators Allowed -- provided it has none of the features listed in

Section III of the USAD® Calculator Policy. 

Competitors are expected to honor the that they are not to refer to information stored in the graphing calculator memory during the mathematics test.

Review calculator policy at www.usad.org.   

2013-2014 USAD®Calculator Policy -- work in progress

"Short" List of USAD® Approved Calculators:

  • Casio:  FX - 115MS Plus,  FX - 260,  FX - 250 HC,  FX - 300
  • Hewlett Packard:  HP 6S, HP 9S, HP 20S, HP 30S, HP 32S

           HP 32SII, HP 33S

  • Sharp:  EL 501 VB,  EL 506 VB,  EL 531 VB,  EL 531 VBBL, EL 531 W
  • Texas Instruments:  TI 10, TI 15 Explorer, TI 30 XA, TI 30 X II B, TI 30 X II S,

           TI 34 II,  TI 36X

"Short" list of USAD® Approved Graphing Calculators:

TX Instruments Hewlett-Packard Casio Sharp
TI-73 HP9g Fx-6000 series EL-5200
TI-81 HP 28 series Fx-6200 series EL-9200
TI-82 HP 38 series Fx-6300 series EL-9600
TI-83 Plus HP39g Fx-6500 series EL-9900
TI-84 Plus HP48g Fx-7000 series  
TI-85 HP50g Fx-7300 series  
TI-86   Fx-7400 series  
TI-Nspire   Fx-7500 series  
    Fx-7700 series  
    Fx-8000 series  
    Fx-8500 series  
    Fx-8700 series  
    Fx-8800 series  
    Fx-9700 series  
    Fx-9750 series  
    FX 9850G  
    FX 9860G  

 

Prohibited Calculators:

Calculators with any of the following features are NOT allowed in USAD® competitions:

  • pocket organizers
  • hand-held or laptop computers
  • electronic writing pads or pen-inut devices
  • models with an elphabetic (QWERTY) keypad; e.g. TI-92 or HP-95
  • models with paper tape
  • models that make noise
  • models that can engage in wireless communication  (transfer data or information with other calculators
  • models that require a power cord
  • models with CAS (computer algebra systems); e.g. TI-89, TI-Nspire CAS

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COACHES:   Be sure to check the Coaches' Corner for news and weekly updates.   This is a secured site for coaches' use only.

Coaches will receive the user name and password via e-mail once their

team is registered.   Password will be changed after each competition.

All scoring reports for the three levels of competitions will be posted on the

Coaches' Corner, as well as information specific to the coaches.

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Every effort has been made by WIAD (Wisconsin Academic Decathlon) to ensure

the accuracy of the information provided on this web site. 

Please report any errors, omissions or comments to mmarcks@cesa7.org

WIAD is not responsible for information that is misinterpreted or altered in any way.

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