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Show Review - Wednesday, December 5, 1984 - Page 3 First ever academic decathlon held By MARCELLA WALKER Alpine School District held its first Academic Decathlon on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Pleasant Grove High School with Pleasant Grove, Lehi, Orem and Mountain View High Schools participating. American Fork High School did not join in this year's competition. Pleasant Grove has represented the school district the past two years at the slate-wid- e Decathlon which is held in St. George. The Utah Academic Decathlon will be held Feb. 7, 8, 9 at Dixie College. Each school fielded a n team, with two each from the Varsity Category for those up to a 3.00 GPA, Scholastic Category for those from 3.00 to 3.74 GPA, and Honors Category for those with a 3.75 to 4.00 GPA. An awards program was held in the afternoon with appropriate recognitions for the first, second and third place winners in each of the ten study areas, as well as the overall winning team and alternate. Orem High School was selected as the representative from Alpine School District as the overall win-ning team. Mountain View is the first alternate. Pleasant Grove placed third and Lehi was fourth. Team members were selected from the studentbody with those students who best fit the categories being chosen. The 10 areas of testing included math, science, social science, economics, language literature, fine arts, essay, speech, interview and super quiz. Suzanne Stirling, Pleasant Grove Team Captain, placed third overall. She had a total of 4,012 points. She took first in honors in super quiz, ' social science, language literature, and fine arts; second in economics and interview and third in essay. Diane Bezzant, Pleasant Grove, took a first place in math, second in essay, and thirds in language literature and fine arts in the honors section. James Oliphant was the alternate in the honors section. In the scholastics section, David Williams of Pleasant Grove had a first in economics, seconds in math, social science, and essay, and third in interview. Tom Warnick also participated in this section. Lynn Reimschussel received a first place in social science in the varsity section. Mike Walden received a first place in essay, second places in math and social science and third in fine arts. They are both from Pleasant Grove. The Utah Academic Decathlon was founded as a means of fostering scholastic excellence among the high school students who represent a wide diversity of academic backgrounds. The purposes of the Utah Academic Decathlon are to en-courage students to develop a greater respect for knowledge, promote wholesome inter-scho-competition in academic areas of study and interest, stimulate in-tellectual growth and achievement, and encourage public interest and awareness of outstanding programs in Utah schools. E. Mark Bezzant, counselor at Pleasant Grove High School, was the overall director of the Alpine School District Academic Decathlon this year. s I 1 j . - ,' 'it ; I ' ' I ' s: 7 - - I ; l : - V I j ' - h v i - ; I ! ! i v i n -:.. '- . . - ' i - ; f - i Pleasant Grove's Diane Bezzant gives her talk in the Alpine School District Academic Decathlon. :t Alpine District enrollment keep I climbing upward Student enrollment in the Alpine School District has continued its V upward climb according to in- - V formation released by the Utah State Office of Education in its Vi official "Fall Enrollment Report" l of Utah's 40 school districts. According to the data, Alpine had 32,454 students as of October 1, 1984 which was 1,350 students more than the October enrollment for.1983.The increase represents a 4.34 percent rise for the year. The total elementary enrollment for Alpine District now stands at . 20,145. The largest class in the district is kindergarten with 3,232 students. The junior high enrollment is 6,703 which includes t grades seven through nine. The senior high enrollment for the top J three grades is 5,431. The total number of handicapped students in the district is 560. The district's 32,454 enrollment U makes it the fourth largest in the state. Granite is the. largest in student enrollment with a population of 67,898; Jordan follows with 57,085; and Davis is third with 44,854. Provo District registered an enrollment of 11,686; while Nebo came in at 14,847. Provo's enrollment increased' by 3.69 per-cent over last year, and Nebo's student . population rose by 4.13 percent. Student enrollment for public education in the State of Utah in-creased by 3.16 percent for the year which represents a rise of 11,933 in overall population. At the kin-dergarten level, however, there were 3,956 more student, or a 11.76 percent increase. Part of this in-crease was attributable to the new law regarding the entrance date for kindergarten students, according to the report. Nine Utah school districts reported a decrease in enrollment while 30 reported an increase ranging from a 1 to a 2,153 students. One district stayed the same. Study on computers completed for schools An extensive Master Plan for the use of computers in the public schools of the Alpine School District has been submitted to the Board of Education for review. According to Mike Bailey, Computer Education Coordinator for the Alpine School District, the Master Plan is a formal response to a policy enacted by the State Board of Education this past January. "The State Board of Education is charged with the authority to define core curriculum at the elementary level and set standards for high school graduation," said Bailey. "This past year the Board included Computer Literacy among the required core curriculum for elementary students and also mandated a half unit of credit in Computer Literacy for grades 8 and another half unit for grades In addition, the state agency called for the development of a plan outlining the implementation of the required computer studies which are to be in place by 1988." The detailed plan, which describes the curriculum, staff development, hardware, ad-ministration and software needs to bring the district in line with the state mandates was presented to the board during its business session held this past week in American Fork. A number of committees were involved in the recommendations. General Chairman for the project was Neil C. Christensen, Principal at Lehi High School. Christensen also acted as Chairman of the Curriculum The following individuals headed additional Dr. Steven Baugh, Principal at Pleasant Grove Jr. High, Staff Development; Jack Reid, Principal, Meadow Elementary, Hardware; Brian Page, Principal, Orchard Elementary, Administrative Ap-plications; and Michael Pratt, Principal, Spencer Elementary, Software. Each was composed of five to seven additional members. Among the major recom-mendations made by the com-mittees were the following: each school in the Alpine School District be equipped with a computer lab and that each lab be equipped with a minimum of 15 microcomputers and accompanying equipment. At present there are some 620 microcomputers in use in the district. Of these, however, ap-proximately 275 are being used for administrative or special use ap-plications and are not available for general classroom use. This means, in order to meet this minimum recommendation, nearly 350 additional units will have to be purchased. --That a curriculum be developed which will emphasize computer awareness and orientation at the elementary level and specialized concepts at the secondary level. The recommendation also asks that students be able to meet credit requirements by "challenging" the course and that mastery tests be developed to evaluate students performance in computer studies. --That the district develop and maintain an inventory of sufficient software for use in the computer studies programs, and that the district develop a software selection process to insure the meeting of educational objectives. --That staff development and training take place through classes, group workshops j and . ' --That the district install a central computer with sufficient capacity to handle input from each school's microcomputers and that each school be equipped with a letter quality printer. The entire Master Plan is to be implemented for the beginning of the 1988-8- 9 school year with the development of the curriculum taking place this year and being field-teste- d in selected schools next year. The lab stations which are recommended for each school will be established at the rate of five stations each year for the next three years. "Of course," concluded Bailey, "the implementation of this minimum program of computer studies is dependent upon sufficient funding, either through existing district funds or through categorical monies from the state legislature." ... n : x yV ' V x . . f , ' (a - .. ) . t - - . ... " I it j 1 1 t IiIf 4 I -- ! . I ; I i V ' I T' . .... ., T... jt. rrlrv1wm,J..1. vmv ,. iTSS'"""','', Peterson honored after performance Carol Harding, left, noted Pleasant Grove artist, presents print of one of her paintings to Robert Peterson following Police make arrests his concert in Pleasant Grove Friday night. A male adult was arrested by Officer Dave Vickers of the Pleasant Grove Police Department for damaging private property at Mr. G's. The officer said the man was y angry when he was unable to buy beer and damaged the door of the business. Officer Jeff Wilson arrested five male adults for illegal possession of alcohol on Dec. 1. He also arrested another for public intoxication on Nov. 29. it Officer Cody Cullimore arrested a male adult, 25, of Lehi, for driving s;:, under the influence of alcohol and for driving on revocation following a ne car accident in Lindon. The officer said that the man apparently failed to stop for a stop sign at 400 West on Lakeview Road, crossed the street and hit a ditch. The driver received an ankle injury in the mishap. The car sustained $300 damage, Officer Cullimore noted. Officer Mike Blackhurst referred a boy from Lindon to Juvenile Court after the youth allegedly offered some marijuana to other students at Lindon Elemen-tary School. 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