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The Orange County academic Decathlon is a rigorous high school competition of ten events hosted by the Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) in conjunction with the united States academic Decathlon (uSaD). Tests include: math, art, music, economics, social science, science, language, and literature. additional competitions include speech, essay and interview. Each year, the subjects are created around a common theme. The theme for the 2013-2014 school year was World War i. OC ACADEMiC DECAThlOn 3rd 10 th 10th Fairmont's junior high debate students compete in the Orange County Debate league against students from 13 other local schools including: heritage Oak, Pegasus, Serra Catholic, buena Park, and Orange Crescent. They compete in five Orange County league Tournaments each year, as well as the middle School Public Debate Program national Championship. OR AnGE COunty dEbAtE LEAGuE CHAmPIOnSHIP HIGHLIGHtS: Individual Speaker Awards (Top 30 individuals) ST PlaCE SPEakER & gOlDEn gavEl aWaRD WinnER: Priya kamdar, north Tustin • Fairmont students received a total of 13 of the 30 individual speaker awards Team Awards (Top 15 overall teams) ST PlaCE TEam: north Tustin (Sahar khashayar, Zach Rackauckas, and Erik Frankel) • Fairmont teams received a total of 5 Team awards School Awards (Top 3 schools with most number of wins in the tournament) ST PlaCE SChOOl — anaheim hills PlaCE SPEakER aWaRD P l AC E P l AC E TEam SCORE inDiviDual PlaCE TEam aWaRD mIddLE SCHOOL PubLIC dEbAtE PROGRAm (mSPdP) nAtIOnAL CHAmPIOnSHIP Fairmont's high School Debate program, established in 2012, stands as a major contender in local, regional, and national competitions. accumulating awards, recognitions and accolades every year, Fairmont Prep students compete in the national Forensic league against other high schools including northwood, Oxford, Fullerton, and Sage hill. HIGHLIGHtS OF tHE 2014 SEASOn: NSDA National Qualifiers Tournament • 1ST PlaCE - Extemporaneous speaking and national Qualifier (eligible to participate in the Triple Crown) • 4Th & 5Th PlaCE - Debate State Qualifying Tournament • 3RD PlaCE & OCTaFinaliSTS - Public Forum Debate (qualified to participate in the California high School Speech and Debate Tournament) OCSL Fall Tournament • 3RD PlaCE SWEEPSTakES • 2nD, 3RD & 4Th PlaCE - Public Forum Debate Teams USC Tournament • 1ST PlaCE - Debate • 1ST & 2nD PlaCE - individual Speaker award in Public Forum Debate 11 th ST PlaCE National Forensic League Extemporaneous speaking and National Qualifier Fairmont students qualified for the national Debate league Championship (to compete against 90 teams and 270 students nationally) and won: 1 1 Stanford University Debate Tournament • 2nD PlaCE - Debate (earned bid to participate in the "Tournament of Champions" national competition) 28 tOtAL AWARdS InCLudInG: www.fairmontschools.com | 20 1 DEBATE JuniOR high & high sChOOl FAIRmOnt'S JunIOR HIGH dEbAtE FAIRmOnt'S HIGH SCHOOL dEbAtE