The MAD team welcomes you!
| What is MAD? | When was the team formed? | What is 859? |
The Marina Academic Decathlon is a team of students from Marina High School who compete in the Academic Decathlon with other schools in ten subjects: Essay, Interview, Language and Literature, Speech, Mathematics, Social Science, Art, Music, Economics and Science. This year's team started meeting and studying in June. There were plenty of candidates, so by the begining of the school year we had our own competition, and the final team will be nine students, formed with these candidates. |
The team was started in 1995 by Robert Grebel. When he left in 2003, Mr. Rick Boogar was kind enough to step in. He then passed the baton to Mr. Alex LaPointe, our current coach. He's doing an awesome job, and we're working to bring our trophy back home. Click here for the list of Alumni Check out our press! Click here for the MAD Hall of Fame Click here for the 1,000 Club Click here for the levels of MADness |
The MAD team has won a total of 859 medals in the competition so far!!!! The team was a State Finalist in 1998, held at Cal-Poly at Pomona, we were County Champions in 2002, in 2003 and were champions again in 2004. Last year every team member got a medal. And we're ready for next year! |
| How do they do it? |
| With lots of help, especially from the following people: |
| THE COACH ............... | Alex LaPointe |
| Assistant Coach .......... | Adriana Slater |
| The Principal ............. | Steve Roderick |
| The Support Team ......... | Mr. Robert Grebel |
| Mr. Legere | |
| MAD Alumni ................ | Tim DuFresne |
| Grant Marx | |
| Kyle Marx | |
| Nick Slater | |
| Tatiana Slater | |
| Tessa StMarie | |
| And of course .............. | Marina High School staff |
| ASB and parents | |
| Marina High School Educational Foundation & Marina High School PTSA |
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| Website .................... | A. A. Slater |
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Wednesday, October 2007 6:30 am at school |
Bakersfield Concert |
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Friday, October , 2007 3:30 am to 8 pm |
@ Mrs. Slater's house |
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October 2007 |
@ Mrs. Slater's house |
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Saturday, November 2007 8 am to 12 pm |
Scrimmage - Bubble only |
| Saturday, January 26th, 2008 | Orange County Academic Decathlon Speech Day |
| Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 | Orange County Academic Decathlon Bubble Day |
| February 2007 | Orange County Academic Decathlon Awards Banquet |
| Friday, March , 2008 |
The California State Academic Decathlon Tournament (But we have to earn it) |
| April 30 - May 3, 2008 |
USAD National Finals in Southern California (That's our aim!) |
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