Regional Competitions

Payments

Purchase orders and checks should be made out to Iowa Academic DecathlonR and sent to

Mallory Jones, IAD Treasurer

306 3rd Street SW

Mount Vernon, IA  52314-1721

Regional Team Registration with full team list is due by Friday, January 15, 2024

Forms

Student Code of Conduct Forms, Student Registrations, and Transcripts

are due in the school's google folder for Regional Competitions before winter break.

Late additions must be added by Friday, January 15, 2024.

Super Quiz

Super Quiz is a collaborative event.

Students in each gpa division collaborate with each other to answer 18 questions.

There is a possible team total of 54 points.

The super quiz score does NOT count toward the team score,

but winners in both large and small schools receive a plaque and are recognized at the awards ceremony.

In Iowa, our teams compete as small and large at Regional and State Competitions. We identify small schools as school populations up to 650 as per USAD. We identify large schools as school populations above 651. This works for us because our school populations are primarily below or above 650. 

For State Competition, we invite the top 24 highest scoring teams from across the state and divide them into small and large after the top 24 are identified.

For National Competition, we send the highest scoring team, our State Champion, from our State Competition.  If it is a large school, then the highest scoring small school is our Division IV.  If it is a small school, the highest scoring large school would be our Division IV. Division IV is a wildcard division that allows us to send a second school to the National Competition.

For online nationals, we recognize the medium size schools with populations up to 1300. We send our highest scoring small school, up to 650, to the small school competition. We send our highest scoring small or medium, up to 1300 to the medium school competition. We send our highest scoring large, above 1300, to the large school competition. These exclude the highest scoring teams who are invited to attend the national competition in person.

School enrollment of competing online school must be: large = not to exceed 10,000; medium = not to exceed 1,300; small = not to exceed 650 (grades 9–12). Enrollment for the scrimmage, Regional Competition, and State Competition is based on prior year reporting through the Iowa Department of Education. For schools advancing to any of the National Competitions, face-to-face or online, enrollment is based on the enrollment from December 1 of the previous year.