Welcome Future Leaders!

This year's theme: Technology and Humanity

What does it mean to become a Decathlete? Mastering college-level material and developing new skills is part of it. It's also about estabishing relationships with people you meet along the way, the coaches who will mentor you, the competitors who will challenge you, and the teammates who will become your lifelong friends. Participating in Academic Decathlon is about daring to push your limits! Join us for a life-changing event here at the Ventura County Office of Education. We can't wait for you to bring it!

You’ll learn an exciting new theme each year, themes like Russia, World War I, and New Alternatives in Energy: Ingenuity and Innovation. You’ll explore seven subjects connected to that theme, from art and science to math and economics. You’ll learn to move an audience not just with facts and rhetoric, but with confidence. And you’ll never do any of this alone. You’ll be working with a team, a team composed of students with a wide range of grades but a single shared goal.

I invite you to become part of a program that you may think is over your head, until you realize you can reach higher as a team. I invite you to struggle, to learn, to understand; not just to win, but to lead.