St. Anthony Wins WYSE Regional Competition

St. Anthony High School's WYSE Team won the regional championship during competition Friday at Lake Land College in Mattoon.

The Academic Challenge is a competitive series of tests created and administered by Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering and offered to high school students in Illinois and Missouri. The tests are now offered by more than 50 community colleges and universities and are designed to present a challenge to the brightest students.

Test material is drawn from senior high school and freshman level college curricula. Written by teams of college and university faculty, subjects include biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering graphics, English, mathematics, and physics. Each test production team produces three tests of increasing levels of difficulty, regional, sectional and state finals. Students compete as individuals and as part of a team (when their school fields a team); they have 40 minutes to complete multiple-choice tests that range in length from 30 questions (computer science) to 100 questions (English).

Team Coaches: Joy Jones and Matthew Poston

Team Members: Alex Curl: 1st place in Chemistry, Laura Deters: 2nd place tie for Chemistry, John Goeckner, Benton Hakman, Frank Jansen: 2nd place in Math & Tie for 2nd place in Physics, Madeline McDevitt, Maggie Mumm: 1st place in Biology & 2nd place tie for Chemistry, Megan Nuxoll, Scott Rentfrow: 1st place in Math & 1st place in Physics, Kate Richards, John Sandschafer, Lauren Schmidt: 2nd place tie for Physics, Thomas Stephens, Emily Wortman, Sarah Wortman

In addition to winning 1st place as a team. The following students also earned scholarship money for their performance at the regional: Alex Curl: $1000 LLC Scholarship - Chemistry, Maggie Mumm: $1000 LLC Scholarship - Biology, Scott Rentfrow: $1000 LLC Scholarship - Math, Scott Rentfrow: $1000 LLC Scholarship - Physics