2026 Competition Information

Old Testament Testing

• Nehemiah
• Daniel
• Jonah

New Testament Testing

• 1 & 2 Peter
• 1, 2, & 3 John
• Jude
• Revelation

Bible Quizzing

Romans and James

• Senior High – All
• Junior High – Romans 1-10, James
• Elementary – Romans 3-10

Bible Memory

God’s Promises (see the GSACS manual for the complete verse list)

Debate

Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly increase its exploration and/or development of the Arctic.

Extemporaneous Speaking

Topics are drawn from January, February, and March issues of World and Time. Students may research and refer to other sources in their speech.

Expository Writing: Essay

The essay must be the student’s original work. This is an essay, not a research paper. Students may review the topic, but no statistics or other quotations requiring source citations are allowed. This competitive event is done in January/February coinciding with the GSACS academic competition. See the manual for more instruction and guidelines.

Spelling

The Spell-It lists are no longer available. AACS published four lists that will be used (www.aacs.org/competition/spelling/). For further need of advanced rounds, we will use the Merriam-Webster contest dictionary. (SH are responsible for all the lists and any words in the contest dictionary should the event move to advanced rounds; JH would study the A lists first, and their advanced rounds would use the B lists; the elementary list for 4-6^th grade can be found online at AACS and their advanced rounds would use the A lists if needed).