Many of you have heard about the amazing feats accomplished by the St. Anthony WYSE Team a few weeks ago. Some may be wondering "What in the world is WYSE?" WYSE stands for Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering. Students from many different schools get together to compete at regional, sectional, and state competitions. St. Anthony has pretty much dominated the regional and sectional competitions the past few years so while it's really cool how well we did, it's not something new.
What happens at WYSE competitions one may ask? Well first, everybody gets off the bus and goes into the college/university. Next, we all get our picture taken. After that we all sit down and get ready to use up some major brain power. Everyone at the WYSE competition takes two separate tests out of seven different areas: Math, Physics, Chemistry, English, Biology, Engineering Graphics, and Computer Science.
At St. A, we mainly stick with the first 5 areas. In fact, I don't think we have ever taken the other two tests. Anywho, the students take one test at a time. Each tests last 40 minutes and has between 30 and 100 questions. For example, math and chemistry both have 40 questions. English is the big one, in case you were wondering. So then, after the students have taken both of their tests, there might be a drawing for some door prizes and then we're off to lunch. Once we get back from lunch, they announce the winners. They do both individual and team winners. For the team winners they somehow standardize the scores in a way which is too complicated for me to explain on this blog. St. A has pretty much dominated for some time. State is always the goal.
My past three years of high school has seen St. Anthony rise to a power at the state competition. We've gotten 2nd, 3rd, and 4th the past three years. Hopefully, this year we'll get the one we've been missing. It seems like a very good possibility with Uni High, who has won the past two years, slacking off this year in their scores. It doesn't hurt that our team pretty much rocks at life either. If you want to check out the WYSE website for results, info, etc, the address is http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/wyse/AC/index.html.
Sectionals are March 11. It should be a great time!
Drew
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