Participation in District Rally is not open to all students, but only to those who are selected by their teachers in each of the subject areas Archbishop Rummel traditionally enters. At present, Archbishop Rummel may enter at least two students in most subjects. At District Rally, Archbishop Rummel’s students compete against each other and against students from practically every other school in the four parish metropolitan New Orleans area for the right to qualify to enter State Rally. The number of qualifiers in a particular subject area depends on the number of schools entered in that subject. Besides qualification to enter State Rally, awards at District Rally consist of medals for third, second, first, and overall place winners. 

At State Rally, Archbishop Rummel’s qualifiers from District Rally, which may number at most one in each subject area, are in competition with State Rally qualifiers from other District Rallies throughout Louisiana. Here they are competing not only for medals given to first through fifth place winners, but for the prize given only to one student in each subject area, the overall winner. If funded by the state of Louisiana, he receives a tuition cash scholarship which may be used at any college or university in the state, public or private. If he places first in his division, and if funded by the state, he will get an activity scholarship. It is for this reason that students selected to participate in the rallies should motivate themselves to complete the course of studies for the year in their particular subject area before the dates of District and State Rallies, the ultimate goal being to win the scholarships.

This information concerning State Rally does not apply to the subject areas of Spanish 4, French 4, and Latin 1 and 2, since there is no State Rally competition in these subjects at present.

MODERATOR:
Mr. Michael Mahoney
Mr. Michael Scalco