Debate      

Debate ended its season at four-speaker state Jan. 15-16 at Olathe Northwest. The team of Kathryn Dorrell and Ben Williams, seniors, placed fifth, and the team of Taylor Weber and Kolton Lehman, seniors, placed sixth.

The teams of Troy Curfman, and Taylor Thompson, seniors, and Madison Runyan and Tricia Bush, juniors, also competed at the state tournament.

Kristen White, debate coach, said, “Our goal for state this year is to win it all and get first place.”

Four-speaker state means that one team will be on affirmative side of the argument while the other team is negative on the subject.

At regionals, the two teams of Taylor Thompson, senior, and Tricia Bush, junior, and Cameron Clark, junior, and Alex Francis, senior, competed.

Scholars’ Bowl 

The Scholars’ Bowl team has tournaments they attend that are held once to twice a month. They last from 3:30-7:30 p.m.. The last tournament that the team went to was at Piper High School earlier this January, where they came in fourth place.

The students who participate in these tournaments are Nick Hinman, Connor Horn, Kyle Wetter, Drake Minter, juniors and Hank Lobaugh, and Carley Eschliman, seniors.

DECA competition

The DECA squad is on a roll. At the Leavenworth competition on Jan. 12, Taylor Allen, and Greg Walker, seniors, placed first in sports and entertainment marketing team decision making.

Sara Hast, and Abby Boyd, seniors, placed second in buying and merchandising team decision making. Ryan Hovey, junior, placed second in retail merchandising.

Also at Leavenworth Luke Wardle and Megan Myers, seniors, placed fourth in business law and ethics team decision making. Coleman Puett, senior, placed fifth in marketing management series and Levi Burkett, junior, placed fifth in restaurant and food service management.

Math team competition

Since their last competition in November, students on the math team recently competed online in Interstellar. In this particular competition, students compete against another random school. The math team won the first round of this competition.

Upcoming competitions include the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) and Olathe Math Battle. According to John Hail, math team sponsor, AMC is a large international competition in which the best and brightest students compete.

Olathe Math Battle is a competition solely against the other three Olathe high schools, and the math team has previously won five out of the six years of the Olathe Math Battle.

CaSE competition

The Computer and Software Engineering (CaSE) CyberPatriot team completed the second preliminary round of the competition on Dec. 7 with a score of 300 out of 333 possible points.

Based on their score for this and the previous round, the team will move on to the silver, gold, or platinum tier for the state round on Jan. 30. With a combined score of 469, the team will move on to the platinum tier.

The tiers are determined by comparing the composite scores of all teams in each state, with the top 30 percent placed in platinum tier, the middle 40 percent in gold, and the bottom 30 percent in silver.

Based on the team’s performance in the state round, they will advance to the platinum tier of the regional round if they place in the top three teams in the state in their tier.