The Acadec team attended the Rockwall Practice Meet this weekend. There were 16 schools there, and most of them were 5A schools from Dallas and Houston. Only schools who were past state qualifiers were invited. The following students received multiple awards:

Troy Kim
Mitchell Hagler, and
Sean Downey

Overall, we placed 3rd within the 4A group. It was a tough competition, and the students represented PT with class!

Academic Decathlon Pine Tree Invitational
This weekend Pine Tree hosted an Academic Decathlon Invitational Meet where students from 5A, 4A, and 3A schools competed together in 7 academic events. Students were separated into three categories (Honors, Scholastic, and Varsity).

Winners included:
Laramy Thomas--3rd place ARt, 3rd place Superquiz,
Rebekah Pace--3rd place Art, 2nd place Science,
Jerica Sandifer--2nd place Art, 2nd place Science, 1st place Superquiz
Sean Downey--1st place Art, 2nd place Lang/Lit, 1st place Science, 2nd place Economics,1st place Superquiz
Maggie Wall--3rd Place Music
Connie Jones--3rd place Music, 1st place Math, 2nd place Superquiz
Troy Kim--3rd, Science, 1st place Math
Logan Chrietzberg, 2nd Place Science, 3rd place SuperQuiz
Mitchell Hagler, 3rd place Economics, 1st place Superquiz

Individual Overall winners included 3rd place overall--Connie Jones and 1st place overall--Sean Downey

Other Team Members: Carly Hayworth, Ector Ramon, Kelly Agee, Andrew Howie, and Jonathan Klerekoper