The answers to all five questions will be posted on the following Monday. Students who get all five questions right will qualify for weekly and monthly prizes that range from hats and t-shirts to Epson color printers. Teams of students match intellects with students from other schools.
Teams compete in the ten-event scholastic competition at the local, state, and national levels.
The competion also includes a speech, essay, interview, and oral relay event called Super Quiz. Not only will Channel One students benefit from the daily Academic Decathlon challenge, through Channel One, U.S.A.D will be able to reach many more students and schools with its competition, curriculum and tests. It encourages top students to hone their knowledge of all major high school academic subjects every day and most important, it's not easy. The Channel One News broadcast is the largest source of news and information for young people with an audience of 8.5 million, five times the teen audience of ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN combined.