08-05-2025
Mayo High School team ties for fifth place in national current-events competition
May 7—ROCHESTER — A team of four students from Mayo High School recently tied for fifth place in a national competition focused on current events and world knowledge, called Academic WorldQuest.
Three of the students — Evita Hansen, Hannah Tupper and Emma Lange — spoke about the experience during a Rochester School Board meeting on Tuesday, May 6. The fourth student on the team, Adelyn Crum, wasn't present.
"If anything, I think we're just so proud of how we did," Hansen said.
Mayo is the only high school in Rochester that hosts an Academic WorldQuest team. This is the third time a team from Mayo has advanced to the national level.
The team secured its national standing after taking first-place at a state-level competition of Academic WorldQuest, hosted by the organization Global Minnesota. Although only the one team of four went to nationals, there were multiple other Mayo teams that competed at state. Two of the other teams from the school finished fourth and eighth in the state competition.
A representative for The World Affairs Councils of America, which hosts the Academic WorldQuest, said there were a total of 33 teams competing at the national competition.
