Todays Thought: Dennis Light “ I’ve been to a lot of places,but I’ve never been in Cahoots.You can’t go alone, you have to be in Cahoots with someone. I’ve also never been in Cognito, you have to be recognized there. I have been in Sane, they don’t have an airport, you have to be driven there.”
Announced Guests:Cathleen Cherry (speaker), Ryan Stinson, Jewels Pate, Karis Dandos and Annette Schiller
Announced:! A sad day; long time Sunup member Rusty Parker announced he was leaving Sunup Rotary. Membership chair Stan Steiner
inducted PDG Don Schiller into the club as an honorary member. Pres. Jerry introduced our new Wheel for fines, anniversaries and birthday donations. Todd Clancy reminded everyone about Saturdays’cleanup project.
Sgt. At Arms Greg Raskin/Rusty Parker- Rusty fined everyone a dollar for Don Schiller’s induction, Greg fined Terri for firing him from the greeters job, Glen $5 for being late. Sarah brought Sgt. Greg coffee, so she wasn’t fined. Many happy bucks and lots of very sad dollars for Rustys’ departure from the club.
Speaker: Art Harrington introduced Cathleen Cherry, Prescott High School Faculty member, adviser and coach to PCH Academic Decathlon Team, (AcaDec) for 5 years, a Fulbright Scholar and Interact advisor.
The Academic Decathlon is an extracurricular academic competition consisting of ten events chosen each year by The United States Academic Decathlon Org .A new topic is selected each year. This years’ topic is Sickness and Health. Competing teams consist of students in 3 separate GPA categories. A team must have a minimum of 2 students per GPA categories to compete. Students compete against their own categories in 7 tests: math, science, economics, social science, literature, music and art and in 3 subjective events: speech, interview and essay. Students
have one minute to prepare and one minute to practice as a team. At the end of the competition a Super Quiz is held. Each school sends up a team by GPA category. Questions are read aloud and each team must come to a consensus and will earn extra points. This is the only event open to parents and the public. The regional competition will be held in Snowflake, AZ on Jan. 31 to Feb. 1 The state competition will be held on March 6 and 7 at Hamilton High School in Chandler AZ.
Scholarships and other prizes will be awarded.