Community Corner
Austin Prep teen earns academic medal
Austin Preparatory School’s Academic Decathlon Team placed second out of 15 teams at the small school division Academic Decathlon recently. The team’s excellent performance automatically qualifies the group for the state finals in March.
Members earned a total of 19 individual medals across six of the seven categories. The team’s strongest area was science (genetics), where it earned five of the nine available medals.
Junior John Smolak of North Andover earned gold medals in language & literature, economics, and science and art, along with a silver medal in music and a bronze medal in history.