Westlake Academic Challenge Teams Finish in Top 10 in Nation

Both the Westlake High School and Lee Burneson Middle School Academic Challenge Teams finished in the top 10 in the nation in the Questions Unlimited Fall 3-2-1 National Competition.

Students compete as a team to answer more than 100 questions online. There are 240 questions at the high school level and 156 questions at the middle school level.

: LBMS Academic Challenge Team members (front row) Matt Taylor, Alicia Ge, Neige DeAngelis, Hannah Goyetche, Oscar Hoegler; (back row) Daniela Danilova, Katherine Xiao, Ethan Drake, Jack Frew, Rhett Bilski and Joey Baker.

: WHS Academic Challenge Team members Matthew Vulku (front), Zahraa Abdulameer, Akhilesh Reddy, Danny Mather, Talya Jeter, Albert Zhou, Patrick Lee, Kyle Yu, Shane Quinn, Jack Wu, Molly Finucane, Ryan Karpuszka, Richard Garber, Vivek Aslot and Sagan Woolner.

The WHS team finished second in the nation out of 167 competing high schools and first in the state. LBMS finished seventh in the nation out of 75 competing middle schools and second in the state.

Academic Challenge advisers are John and Sandy Packis.