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March 7, 2010

Dallas High School students will compete at national ‘Lifesmarts’ competition

Attorney General Tom Corbett has named Dallas High School the 2010 “LifeSmarts Consumer Challenge” state champion following Tuesday’s competition held in Harrisburg.

The victory means Dallas will represent Pennsylvania in the National LifeSmarts competition to be held April 24-27 in Miami, Florida.

LifeSmarts is a consumer challenge competition for high school students across the nation.

The National Consumer League, in partnership with nonprofit organizations, government agencies and educational organizations, make the competition available to teens in every state. The Attorney General’s office plans and implements the program for Pennsylvania.

Corbett said the nine top scoring teams were invited to the state finals and were chosen based on their scores on three separate tests that were posted online.

The Internet-based competition asked students a host of questions related to such topics as personal finances, the environment, technology, consumer rights and responsibilities and health and safety.

Each student earned points for the questions answered correctly. Their team score was determined by the average of the top four student scores from each school.

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