Marina and Fountain Valley high school students place in Academic WorldQuest competition
Marina High School (MHS) and Fountain Valley High School (FVHS) placed second and third respectively in the recent Academic WorldQuest Orange County competition.
Academic WorldQuest is a flagship program of the national network of the World Affairs Council. It offers a fun, fast-paced team competition, testing players’ knowledge of current international politics, geography, global economics, history and world cultures.
During the competition, teams compete in 10 rounds composed of 10 questions covering 10 thematic categories. Due to the high volume of potential content to be quizzed on, students study for months in preparation for this event.
“The students are awesome and committed to understanding the world around them. They dedicate after-school hours to study, prepare but, most importantly, understand,” said FVHS teacher Julie Chaicharee.
”Marina (High School) has been competing in this competition for the past nine years and were the Orange County champions for six years running, from 2015 to 2021, the longest winning streak in the history of the competition,” said Earl Ziemann. “This is a very rigorous contest and the students really worked hard to prepare and did great. I am very proud of our Vikings.”
– Submitted by Huntington Beach Union High School District
Orange County teens introduce computer science and basketball to Girl Scouts
Nineteen Orange County Girl Scouts ages 9 to 12 were recently introduced to the fundamentals of computer science and basketball at a unique Hoops & Coders workshop, conducted by 2022 Dragon Kim Foundation Fellows Gabrielle DeCuir and Shrika Andhe, both juniors at Placentia’s Valencia High School.
The teens were members of the sixth fellowship cohort of the Dragon Kim Foundation, an Orange County-based nonprofit whose mission is to inspire youth to impact their communities while discovering and pursuing their…
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