{"id":168912,"date":"2026-02-08T05:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168912\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T05:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:40:13","slug":"stockdale-high-school-named-2026-academic-decathlon-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168912\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockdale High School Named 2026 Academic Decathlon Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stockdale High School received the Claude W. Richardson perpetual trophy as the overall team winner of the 46th Annual Kern County Academic Decathlon which concluded today at Stockdale High School. 130 students from 16 high schools participated. Stockdale will represent Kern County in the California Academic Decathlon scheduled for next month.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the top five teams were:<\/p>\n

Second place \u2013 Arvin High School
Third place \u2013 Frontier High School
Fourth place \u2013 West High School
Fifth place \u2013 Highland High School<\/p>\n

Academic Decathlon is made up of ten events including Art, Economics, Essay, Interview, Language and Literature, Mathematics, Music, Science, Social Science, and Speech, plus a Super Quiz. The majority of the subjects were contested on February 4, 2026.\u00a0 Each school\u2019s team consisted of a maximum of nine students: three \u201cA\u201d (honor), three \u201cB\u201d (scholastic) and three \u201cC\u201d (varsity) entrants. They competed against other students in the same category. Individual medals are awarded to first, second and third place finishers in each category and event.<\/p>\n

The event concluded today, featuring the final two in-person categories \u2014 the speech competition and the Super Quiz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Super Quiz is a pressure-packed 90-minutes of excitement, run like a TV quiz show. Team members have ten seconds to collaborate and answer each question. Running totals are displayed on large, visible flip cards, bringing about enthusiastic reactions from the audience.\u00a0 The first place winner of the Super Quiz also took home the Milo Hall Trophy, which was awarded this year to Liberty High School. <\/p>\n

Overall individual top scores in this year\u2019s Academic Decathlon went to:<\/p>\n

Honors Division<\/p>\n

1st place \u2013 Samuel Ding
2nd place \u2013 Samantha Truong
3rd place \u2013 Alice Guo<\/p>\n

Scholastic Division<\/p>\n

1st place \u2013 Nataly Hernandez
2nd place \u2013 Seraphina Fordham
3rd place \u2013 Adam Monte De Ramos<\/p>\n

Varsity Division<\/p>\n

1st place \u2013 Macala Magugat
2nd place \u2013 Brooklyn Weston
3rd place \u2013 Paloma Garcia<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Erin Pruitt<\/p>\n

Erin Pruitt joined the Kern County Superintendent of Schools as a Communications Specialist in 2025. Before this role, Pruitt served as an Assistant Producer for KETN’s Do the Math program since 2017, where she first discovered her passion for storytelling and community engagement in the field of communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stockdale High School received the Claude W. Richardson perpetual trophy as the overall team winner of the 46th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-168912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}