Tucson, AZ (May 4, 2012) The Academic Decathlon team from Sonoran Science Academy-Tucson competed last week in the United States Academic Decathlon Online Competition, after placing 1^st for small schools (1A and 2A) at the state competition, (held in Mesa, in March), qualifying them for nationals.

The United States Academic Decathlon hosts an online national competition for 1A and 2A schools, with 3A through 5A schools traveling to compete. [Read More]

Tucson, AZ (May 2, 2012) Not many people can say “I won a world championship”, but eight middle school students from Sonoran Science Academy-Tucson can say exactly that after placing 1st at the FIRST (For Inspiration & Research in Science and Technology) World Championship competition, held April 25-28, in St. Louis, MO.

Sixth and seventh graders Kate Ciaramello, Emma Galligan, Robert Gauthier, Jose Hernandez, Liam  Koenneker, Zakaria Lamri, Quincy Lyons, and Nathan Vandivort, better known as Team TOXIC Team Of Xperts In Computers), triumphed over eighty teams, representing seventy-five countries and thirty-three states, in the Research category of the FLL (First Lego League) middle school robotics competition. [Read More]

Chandler, AZ (May 2, 2012) The Noetic Learning Math Contest is an elementary math problem-solving contest held twice a year. The purpose of the competition is to stimulate student interest in math and inspire them to excel in math.

242 students from Paragon Science Academy Elementary school competed in this competition last month, along with more than 12,000 other young students, representing 649 teams from across the country. [Read more]

Tucson, AZ (May 2, 2012) Sonoran Science Academy-Tucson students want you to know they don’t just do science! Six high school students competed this past weekend in Tempe at the state round of the National History Day Competition. 

Allison Hrabar received 2nd place for her historical paper entitled, The Dechristianization Movement in Revolutionary France, and will now compete at the national competition in College Park, Maryland, June 10th-14th. She will be joined there by fellow student Adriana Hanson, who also placed second for her documentary, The Heart of the French Revolution: Instigators, Revolutionaries, Reactionaries, and Reformers. [Read More]