CESA 7

WIAD is an outstanding non-profit extra-curricular program entering its 29th season of providing a rigorous curriculum and academic challenges to the public and private high school students of our state.

WIAD provides opportunities for students to experience the challenges of rigorous team and individual competition.  It is designed to:

• develop a greater respect for knowledge
• promote inter-school academic competition
• emphasize the need for increased communication skills
• stimulate intellectual growth and achievement and development of team efforts

WIAD challenges students to push themselves beyond what they thought academically possible, motivating and recapturing their interest in academics.  The program rewards the heroes of the academic arena.  It encourages "C" students to excel beyond their current achievement level  and teachers other students they have strengths they can contribute to the team.

This team concept creates a positive school image and academic role models, changes students' attitudes and encourages public interest and awareness of outstanding programs in Wisconsin schools.  The best athlete may not end up in professional sports, but Academic Decathlon students continue to use their communication skills.

The curricular theme for the 2011-2012 season is

The Age of Empire.  

The season consists of three levels of competition --

Local Competition - All nine team members take 6 written tests in

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

Regional Competition:  60 teams advance from Local Competition and will take six written tests in addition to essay writing and giving a prepared speech, impromptu speech and an interview in front of two judges.

State Competition:  20 teams advance from Regional Competition and will take the six written tests (same as Local and Regional Competitions) in addition to essay writing and giving a prepared speech, impromptu speech and an interview in front of two judges along with Super Quiz -- which includes both a written test and a relay.  Super Quiz topic is The Age of Imperialism:  The Making of a European Gobal Order.

  2010-2011 National Competition Results 

Waukesha West National Champions

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Marathon, New Berlin Eisenhower & Waukesha South

High Schools competed in the USAD® Small, Medium & Large

School Online National Competition. 

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  2010-2011 State Competition Results 

Overall in the State...........

1st Place - Waukesha West High School

2nd Place - New Berlin  Eisenhower High School

3rd Place - Waukesha South High School       

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State Director

524 Daisy Court

Verona WI   53593

Ph: (608) 845-3544

Fax: (608) 845-3850

mritchie@wiad.org

Margie Marcks

Competition Manager

595 Baeten Road

Green Bay WI   54304

Ph: (920) 617-5617

Fax: (920) 492-5965

acadec@cesa7.k12.wi.us