Interdisciplinary intelligence Members of the Delphi Community High School Academic Super Bowl Interdisciplinary team earned first place during state finals competition held at Purdue University in early May. Pictured are, left to right: Front - Interdisciplinary team members Aubrey McCarty, Shane Evans and Jenna Buehler. Back - Kyle Bender, science teacher and team leader Kirk Janowiak and Nicholi Kauffman. Photo provided The Delphi Community High School Academic Super Bowl team competed several times throughout the year and qualified to compete in Science and Interdisciplinary at the State Finals at Purdue University on May 3. The top six schools from each division are chosen to compete, which placed DCHS near the top of the list of nearly 300 schools.

During last weekend's competition, the Interdisciplinary squad placed first in the state, making it champions of the division. The Science squad placed fourth overall.

"The teams have previously brought home state championships in 1997, 2000, and 2001," Super Bowl team leader Kirk Janowiak said. "As far as I know, along with poms winning in 2006, these are the only state championships for DCHS for any sport or other competition."

Academic Super Bowl consists of mathematics, science, English, fine arts, social studies and interdisciplinary competion. This year's theme was the Civil War era in the USA.

Following are team members and categories in which they competed: Kyle Bender - interdisciplinary and social studies; Liz Britt - science; Morgan Borden - fine arts; Arielle Brosman - fine arts; Jenna Buehler - interdisciplinary and fine arts; Shane Evans - interdisciplinary, science and mathematics; Kylee German - mathematics; Kaitlan Harbor - English; Yaseen Hariri - social studies; Nicholi Kauffman - interdisciplinary, science and mathematics; Jared Kelly - interdisciplinary, science and mathematics; Brooke Lewis - fine arts; Aubrey McCarty - interdisciplinary and fine arts; Sarah McTigue - English; Nick Russel - social studies; Torie Sosbe - science.