Scoring
Team
The
scoring team is contracted by the Board of Directors to accomplish the
scoring of the events and final tabulation of all individual and team
scores for the State competition. Don
Thomas will answer questions about scoring at akthomas@gci.net
Regional
Coordinators and Team Coaches
Several
regions throughout the state have coordinators who develop the program
within their region. If you are interested in starting a team in your
school, please contact the State Director for the regional coordinator in
your school district.
Team
Coaches are generally members of the teaching staff, however, a coach or
regional coordinator may also be an interested community volunteer or
retired staff member.
Regional
Coordinators and Team Coaches establish a plan for giving the opportunity
to participate in Decathlon activities to as many students as possible.
Sponsors
All
of our sponsors are important to the continuation of GCI AAD and we
recognize their sponsorships in several ways including the following: Logo
on our web site; Name in our Brochures; Logo in our Competition Handbook
and Banquet Program; Name on a Competition Banner; and their name in our
twice yearly newsletter. We receive no public funding and it is only
through the generous donations from our sponsors that we are able to
continue this program.
Volunteers
In
order to conduct the State competition nearly 200 community volunteers are
needed to judge the speech and interview events and to act as proctors for
the testing and the Super Quiz. Additional volunteers participate as essay
graders.
United
States Academic Decathlon (USAD)
The
National organization establishes the rules for the competition, prepares
an annual study guide, selects a new theme and develops new curriculum
materials for each competition year. They also prepare the test questions
for the Practice, Regional, State and National competitions. The staff of
USAD is eager to assist coaches with questions concerning the purchase of
curriculum materials or about the program in general. They may be reached
on line at http://www.usad.org/
