SCC Hosts WYSE Testing for Area Schools

Shawnee Community College hosted the annual Illinois Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) Academic Challenge February 2. The challenge has been an annual event in Illinois schools since 1975.

Students from Anna-Jonesboro, Cairo, Century, Dongola, Goreville, Joppa, Massac County, Shawnee and Vienna high schools competed in the subject areas of biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering graphics, English, math and physics. The schools were separated into two divisions. Division 700 contains schools with 301-699 students and division 300 contains schools with 300 or fewer students.

Overall, the division 300 team winners were Joppa High School with a first place score of 459 points, Goreville High School with a second place score of 451 and Century High School in third with 414 points. Massac County High School took the lead of division 700 with 500 points, Vienna High School came in second with 445 points and Anna-Jonesboro High School was third with 390 points.