Granada Hills to defend title

While thousands of other Los Angeles high school students romped Friday on the last day of spring break, nine study nerds in Granada Hills huddled inside a war room of desks. Dana Bartholomew in the Daily News.

For the state champion Academic Decathlon team at Granada Hills Charter High, gunning for a national title this week meant a collective battle of the books during the break.

"Let's win this," declared Joon Lee, 18, of Northridge, a polymathic "A" student reviewing to the sound of techno music at a campus devoid of other students.