ST. ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL
 WYSE TEAM

Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering
http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/wyse/

 

The Academic Challenge is a competitive series of test 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 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 test 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 score - 500 points maximum 
Over 300 students from area schools competed in the event.

2008 WYSE Team Members:
Jenny Brown Craig Brummer Jonathan Day
Hannah Esker Heather Esker Amy Goeckner
Jenna Goeckner Nicole Haarmann Maria Jansen
Arooj Kohli Katie Mumm Nicole Rutledge
Anthony Schottman Andi Schuette

2008 Competition

Regional Testing
St. Anthony High School - 1st Place Team at Lake Land College

Sectional Testing
St. Anthony High School - 1st Place Team at Eastern Illinois University

Illinois State Finals
St. Anthony High School - 3rd Place Team at University of Illinois 


Congratulations!!!!!!

St. Anthony WYSE Team

3rd Place

@ State!!!

 

Sectional Results

Mathematics
1st Maria Jansen
2nd Tie - Heather Esker & Craig Brummer
3rd Hannah Esker
Chemistry
1st Craig Brummer
2nd Tie - Heather Esker & Jonathan Day
3rd Amy Goeckner
Physics
1st Maria Jansen
2nd Hannah Esker
3rd Jonathan Day
 

Regional Results

Mathematics
Maria Jansen 1st in the division, 1st overall
Craig Brummer 2nd in the division, 2nd overall
Heather Esker 3rd overall
Chemistry
Jonathan Day 1st in the division, 1st overall
Heather Esker 2nd in the division, 2nd overall
Amy Goeckner tied for 3rd overall
Craig Brummer tied for 3rd overall
Physics
Maria Jansen 1st in the division, 1st overall
Jonathan Day 2nd in the division, 3rd overall
English
Nicole Rutledge 1st in the division, 2nd overall
Nicole Haarmann 2nd in the division
Biology
Anthony Schottman 1st in the division, 3rd overall
Nicole Haarmann 2nd in the division

 

The St. Anthony WYSE team recently competed in the state competition at the University of Illinois on April 14th.

Academic Challenge is a battery of tests created by the Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) program and offered to high school students. Subjects tested are biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering graphics, English, mathematics and physics.

More than 40 community colleges and universities in Illinois and Missouri now provide sites for the tests. The tests are designed to present a challenge to the states’ brightest students. They are presented in a multiple-choice format, and students have 40 minutes to complete tests that range in length from 30 (computer science) to 100 (English) questions.

The test material is drawn from high school senior and college freshman curricula to present a bridge between secondary and higher education. Tests are written by teams of faculty members at colleges and universities in Illinois and Missouri. Each team produces sets of tests that increase in level of difficulty in a progression from regional, to sectional, to state finals.

Additional information concerning the Academic Challenge program is available on the WYSE website at www.engr.uiuc.edu/wyse.

WYSE is located on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a unit of the College of Engineering.

Guiding Philosophy of the Academic Challenge

The goal of Academic Challenge is to acquaint high school students with the course content and the level of competition that they will experience upon entering a science or engineering curriculum at the college or university level. Consequently, the test content will challenge the brightest students.