Nashville High School competed in the Regional Finals of the WYSE Academic Challenge at Kaskaskia College yesterday, as it was postponed from last week due to the bad weather.  Advisor Jean Orr told WNSV that they had a good day, as the varsity team placed 1^st ahead of Wesclin and Mater Dei.  Nashville and Wesclin will advance to sectionals at McKendree on Monday, March 10^th. 4 Nashville students medaled and that included John Schroeder, who placed 1^st in Biology and 1^st in English, Alex Orr, who placed 1^st in Math and 1^st in Chemistry, James Waugh III, who placed 3^rd in Engineering Graphics and Megan Hall, who placed 2^nd in English.  The Okawville High School competed in the Regional Finals of the WYSE Academic Challenge at Kaskaskia College yesterday.  They also won 1^st place in the Division 300 class.  Tessa Winkel placed 1^st and Tyler Riechmann placed 2^nd in Chemistry, Allison Koch and Nick Weber tied for 2^nd in Engineering Graphics, while Alexis Kampwerth was 3^rd in both Physics and Math and Rachel Mueller was 3^rd in English.  This is a competitive series of tests created and administered by Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering and offered to high school students in Illinois and Missouri and are designed to present a challenge to the brightest students.  Test material is drawn from senior high school and freshman level college curricula. Subjects include biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering graphics, English, mathematics and physics.  Students compete as individuals and as part of a team and they have 40 minutes to complete multiple-choice tests that range in length from 30 questions in computer science to 100 questions in English.  The Nashville Varsity team also consists of Joe Blumenstock, Aaron and Alana Czajkowski, Mark Dalman, Madison Frerker, Garrett Guest, Natalie Johnson, Blake Kasten, Shawn Rennegarbe and Mackenzie Wells.