User:CryptoDerk/2004USAD

The 2004 United States Academic Decathlon national finals were held in Boise, Idaho from April 14-17.

The national champion team was from El Camino Real High School in California.

Curriculum
The overall theme of the 2003-2004 curriculum was America: The Growth of a Nation. Aside from the interview, speech (prepared and impromptu), and essay events, the curriculum contained the following events:

Super Quiz (Social Science)
The Super Quiz topic was The Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Art
Art focused on American art, including early American art, Native American art, and photography.

Economics
Economics focused on fundamentals of microeconomics and macroeconomics, as well as the U.S. economy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Language & literature
Language & literature focused on the novel Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, as well as one speech and five poems.

Music
Music focused on 14 tracks on a CD titled Patriotism, Diversity, and the Pioneer Spirit: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Music.

Science
Science focused on botany.

Competitors
The following schools represented their states: Additionally, J. N. Burnett Secondary High School from British Columbia, Canada competed.