2016 FHS Academic Decathlon Team Results
By Anonymous — Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Fillmore High School’s new Academic Decathlon team medaled in seven of the ten event categories at this year’s Ventura County Academic Decathlon competition. Together the team hauled in a total of four gold medals, five silver medals, and one bronze medal in the White division. The categories Fillmore medaled in are Essay, Interview, Speech, Art, Music, Economics, and Science. Special congratulations are also due to Jessica Manginelli, who earned a perfect score of 1000 on her speech delivery. Fillmore competed against schools such as Pacifica High School, Simi Valley High School, Newbury Park High School, Thousand Oaks High School, Adolfo Camarillo High School, and Channel Island High School (among others) in order to win these honors. The official medal breakdown is as follows: Essay- Gold Medal: Naythan Martinez; Interview- Gold Medal: Jessica Manginelli, Silver Medal: William “Jon”; Menjivar; Speech- Gold Medal: Jessica Manginelli, Silver Medal: Naythan Martinez; Art- Bronze Medal: Jene Tarango; Music-Silver Medals Misael Ponce and Jessica Manginelli; Economics- Gold Medal: Misael Ponce; Science- Silver Medal: Misael Ponce- Highest Individual Team Scorer: Misael Ponce Team Spirit Award: Jessica Manginelli. |