College students from Granada Hills Constitution received the U.S. Tutorial Decathlon on Saturday, the ninth time the San Fernando Valley faculty has captured the title.
9 college students — Zainab Al-Atya, Lily Fairbank-Bermejo, Vivian Le, Vanessa Miller, Kira Pospeshil, Matthew Salcedo, Colby Sapera, Garrett Scott and Mason Wong — represented Granada Hills Constitution within the competitors, through which highschool groups take multiple-choice exams, write essays and provides speeches on a spread of topics spanning science, literature, artwork, music, social science, economics and arithmetic.
Every year the competitors revolves round a central subject, this 12 months’s being water, in response to a spokesperson for Granada Hills Constitution.
“I’m very excited, very pleased with all my teammates. We labored actually onerous all 12 months,” Fairbank-Bermejo stated in a press release distributed by the college. “It’s nice to see the success that comes from all of the onerous work that we put in come to fruition.”
Two Granada Hills Constitution college students, Anthony Mercado and Elyssa Nguyen, had been alternates on the crew, which was coached by Tyler Lee and Amy Contreras.
“Our complete crew is thrilled to hold on Granada’s profitable custom,” Lee stated in a press release. “They deserve it after working onerous all 12 months and demonstrating actual dedication and dedication.”
Granada Hills Constitution is a back-to-back champion, having received the title final 12 months. The decathlon was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This 12 months’s competitors was held nearly.
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