On March 11th, 14 Eureka high school students competed in the WYSE-Academic Challenge Sectional Competition held at Bradley University. WYSE is an acronym for World-wide Youth in Science and Engineering. Each student takes two tests from the following seven subject areas: Math, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, English, Engineering Graphics, and Computer Fundamentals. The WYSE-Academic Challenge Team finished in third place behind U-High and Seneca High Schools. They defeated Central Catholic, St. Bede, and Tri-Valley High Schools. Receiving medallions were Jeremy Gerber with a second in both Biology and Computer Science, Matt Schaidle second in Computer Science, Derek Jennings second in Chemistry and Wes Johnson third in Math. Jeremy, Matt, and Derek all advance to the State competition which is held at the University of Illinois on April 20. Other WYSE participants were Tyler Facker, Devin Pigman, Matt Dillard, Caleb Wells, Sarah Gardner, Beth Wagner, Katie Boggs, Austen Knapp, Andrew Wuethrich, and Danielle Kuntz. The team is coached by Mr. Brian Bill.
