Talk About Smart

The former WYSE competition was converted over into the Academic Challenge for area High School students. And while Covid made the competition completely virtual this year – and saw the number of participating schools decline by a large amount – being able to advance is still quite an honor because the scoring is based on college level exams taken by the students in their chosen field.

Only the top three scores from each of the exams at the Regional level – hosted by Highland Community College – made it on to the Sectional competition that was just hosted by Northern Illinois University. And w...