School Team Places 2nd in U.S. Contest
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A highly touted team of young scholars from Arcadia High School came in second in a three-day national academic competition that tested their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution.
The contest, dubbed “We the People . . . the Citizen and the Constitution,” was won Monday afternoon in Washington, D.C., by a team from Our Lady of Lourdes Academy in Miami. More than 1,250 students representing all 50 states sat through a weekend of mock hearings designed to test their knowledge of the nation’s legal principles.
The finalists faced off Monday in a hearing room on Capitol Hill. But the Arcadia team, the California champs, came up just short when faced with the Miami team from a girl’s Roman Catholic school.
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