Dekalb Early College Academy

Dekalb County Schools

Reading Bowl Team Earns Second Place

Reading Bowl Team Advances to Regionals
Saturday, Jan. 28th, DECA competed against 14 other high school at DeKalb's Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Competition at Arabia Mountain high School.  DECA earned second place, which means the team will compete at Regionals Saturday, Feb. 10th, at Clayton State.  The competition consists of 6 rounds, with 10 questions per round, based on the 20 books from the Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers.
 
Last year DECA earned third place at the district competition, and the year before they tied with Arabia Mountain HS for first place.
 
Team Members are:
Jesus Hernandez: co-captain
Kelis Johnson: co-captain
Sydni Cobb 
Anaam Haji
MacKenzie Bellamy
Jayda Patterson
Assia Ali
Mia Stroud
TimNguyen
Kelsey Brew