St. Anthony WYSE Team Wins Sectional; On to State

The team advances to the WYSE State competition held at the University of Illinois on April 18th.

 

The Academic Challenge is a competitive series of tests created and administered by Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering and offered to high school students in Illinois and Missouri. The tests are now offered by more than 50 community colleges and universities and are designed to present a challenge to the brightest students.

 

Test material is drawn from senior high school and freshman level college curricula. Written by teams of college and university faculty, subjects include biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering graphics, English, mathematics, and physics. Each test production team produces three tests of increasing levels of difficulty, regional, sectional and state finals. Students compete as individuals and as part of a team (when their school fields a team); they have 40 minutes to complete multiple-choice tests that range in length from 30 questions (computer science) to 100 questions (English).

 

The order of finish in the 300 Division: 1st - St. Anthony High School...2nd - St. Teresa High School...3rd - Cumberland High School...4th - Meridian High School...5th - Fisher High School...and 6th - Oblong High School.

 

St. Anthony students and how they finished Thursday, by category:

 

1st Place Tie - Maryann Saba

1st Place Tie - Alex Beesley

2nd Place Tie - Carly Spraul

 

3rd Place Tie - Suhyun Moon

1st Place - Ethan Rozene 

2nd Place - Ian Copple

3rd Place Tie - Maryann Saba

 

2nd Place Tie - Ian Copple

3rd Place - Jack Nuxoll

 

2018 WYSE Team member from St. Anthony include:

1. Aidan Bailey; English, Engineering Graphics