Faculty Follies was created in 1986 after a strike throughout the IUSD when staff morale was low- this show was intended to help bring people together in a healing process and generate a sense of camaraderie.
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Academic Decathlon
Academic Decathlon, or ACADECA, is a competition in which high school students from competing schools in the county engage in a series of multiple-choice examinations of various categories stemming from one central topic, in order to win both individual, and team medals.
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Speech & Debate
Speech & Debate, in addition to being one of the most popular academic extracurricular activities high schoolers in the U.S. partake in, is one of UHS's premiere scholastic clubs. The phrase “Speech & Debate” is an overarching term for a variety of styles of debate and speech that Uni offers.
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Science Fair
Science Fair is a year-round academic competition in which students, either individually or in groups of 2-3 (regardless of grade level), conduct science experiments/research studies to present at various science fairs in California.
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Dual Enrollment
Dual enrollment is an opportunity for high school students to take college courses at a local community college (either Irvine Valley College or Saddleback College).
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Video Production
Video Production is a course designed to provide opportunities for students to develop introductory skills in television and video production.
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AP Latin
In AP Latin, the bulk of your studies will be on literature such as Vergil’s Aeneid and Caesar’s Gallic Wars. Part of the curriculum is a rigorous extension of Latin 3 as you will be focusing on analyzing poetry stylistically as well as translating and interpreting the significance of Latin passages.
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AP Physics 1/2
The AP Physics 1/2 course is designed to teach students trigonometry-based physics and real-life applications of the curriculum.
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AP Statistics
The AP Statistics course encompasses data collection and analysis as well as statistical inference. The course is cumulative, so you will be using concepts from early chapters in your understanding of later chapters.
The course is not only about inputting data into your calculator, but it also heavily tests your ability to do something with the data and finding conclusions about the statistical significance beyond the numbers.
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Mock Trial
Mock trial is a competitive academic club on campus in which members take on different roles, such as witnesses, attorneys, and pre-trial attorneys, in a made-up trial case that the Constitutional Rights Foundation creates every year. You get to learn how trials work in the American justice system and compete against schools from all over the county at an actual courthouse.