Youngstown Christian School scores in academic decathlon

YOUNGSTOWN — It was Youngstown Christian School’s first trip to the Ohio State Championship of the United States Academic Decathlon, but you wouldn’t know it from the results.

Instead of being a team just getting the feel of the competition for the first time, Youngstown Christian walked away from the event with the state Small School Division title and will advance to national competition in April.

Reaching that level took a lot of hard work. The first-year team spent more than 500 extracurricular hours studying for the Academic Decathlon competitions this year.

Read more in Thursday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com