Welcome to the Garland High School Academic Decathlon Web! This page is dedicated to the current, former, and future GHS AcDeccers. For those who have wandered on to this page by accident or by coercion and have no clue as to what Academic Decathlon is all about...
What?
Decathlon, or AcDec, as GHS team members have become accustomed to calling it, is a rigorous 10-event competition for which the GHS team prepares year-round. With the first scrimmage competition in September or October, the team's preparation that pushes individuals to test their stamina, agility, and dedication...in the academic arena. The subjects in Academic Decathlon include:
And the intangibles:
- Math
- Economics
- Social Science
- Music
- Art
- Language and Literature
- Super Quiz
- Speech
- Interview
- Essay
Participation in AcDec not only helps a student become more well-rounded, but also provides the individual with a variety of skills applicable in college as well as the "real world." For more information on the competition, please visit the official United States Academic Decathlon (USAD) website at http://www.usad.org.
Who?
We're the Garland High School Academic Decathlon Team, a bunch of socially-inept teens (or at least some of us anyway) seeking to better the world by promoting opera and spending our free time imagining ourselves on the plains of Black Hawk, Nebraska...
Why?
"Lady, if you have to ask you'll never know."
Where?
Garland! You know, that small suburb of Dallas...?
And?
We're not completely sure what this page will include yet. But in the future you can expect events, happenings, and AcDec lore pertaining to the GHS AcDec team, including (but not limited to):
- Six Flags
- free-for-all Thursday
- barmaids
- New Year's Party
- State hotels
- the Regional driving fiasco
- camping out in the room
- bippies
- caddywompuses
- psychoses
- interrelationships within the system
- music
- O.J. Simpson-like sequestering of individuals during State.
- intimidation of rookies
- intimidation of coaches
- intimidation of people in general
- treatment of speech volunteers
- I don't recall...
- tailgate parties
- getting lost
- Oversleeping
- makeup
- photos
- birthdays
- håçKïñG
- tennis balls in general yet in...specific
- RT2K
- carpooling
- food
- bets
- and etc...
If there's anything missing in the list above (which is a certainty), just let us know. Unabashedly, though, we can say that we do OK. We're not bad; look, the Dallas Stars ganked our colors...what could that mean? In the meantime, please be patient with us as this website goes underway. It'll all be worth it in the end...