San Dieguito Academy Foundation

Academic Council supports SDA’s Academic Teams including Speech & Debate, Mustang Minds, Robotics and Young Leaders in Health Care. For more information about Academic Council (including meeting times), please visit this page.

Mustang Minds had an excellent 2010-2011 season. (Photo gallery at the end of this article.) The freshmen team powered through while showing promise and development for future participation. As for junior varsity, the team’s electrifying defeat of CCA highlighted the season and made it one of the most exciting in many years. Varsity team members [...]

Hi SDA Administration and Teachers, What a fantastic season it has been for Team Paradox! Thank you so much for your support that helped make it all possible. Sunday, May 1 we returned from our second consecutive world championship. This year the event was held in St. Louis, MO for the first time. We took [...]

Congratulations to all those who competed at the California State Championships! Getting there was an great honor in itself. This year, the State Speech & Debate Competition was held on Friday 4/15 thru Sun 4/17 at San Diego State University and had 1,500 of the best competitors in the state who qualified to compete at [...]

We wanted to take this opportunity to give you a quick update post the Las Vegas Robotics Competition. As you recall, Team Paradox had a successful San Diego Competition, qualifying for the semi-finals and being awarded the Engineering Inspiration award. With this success, the build team was energized to make further improvements in the robot [...]

The SDA debate team competed successfully at the Helix High School tournament January 28 and 29: Derek Marrow and George Lourov got 3rd place in policy debate Elliot Horen and Michael Wimsatt got 4th place in policy debate The speech team had an outstanding performance at Golden Desert Invitational IE Tournament, Las Vegas: Claire Li [...]

It’s been a busy fall semester for Speech & Debate! After our local Varsity tournament at SDA on 9/24 & 9/25, as well as the Cal State Long Beach tournament on the weekend of Oct 2 & Oct 3, a small group of students accompanied Speech & Debate coach, Mr. Newkirk, to The Bronx School [...]

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