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The United States Academic Decathlon is an annual high school academic competition organized by the non-profit United States Academic Decathlon Association |
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Created by Robert Peterson in Orange County, California, for local schools in 1968 and expanded to a nationwide setting in 1981, the competition consists of seven thematically linked multiple choice tests in art, economics, language and literature, math, music, science and social science, as well as three subjective events graded by judges: essay, interview and speech |
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Teams generally consist of nine members, who are divided into three divisions based on grade point average |
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United States Academic Decathlon |
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