The event tests students across a variety of academic pursuits over a full day. Everything from english and ideation to engineering and code-breaking is covered, and it's all designed to challenge and stimulate their minds.

The combined year seven and eight unit remained composed throughout the competition to come home with top three finishes in six disciplines, including creative producers, cartography, mathematics, general knowledge, science and art/poetry.

Melville kids clearly know where they are going in life, taking out the mapping category. While their dramatic performance earnt them first place points in the creative producers class.

The team was crowned champions on the back of their consistent results, overcoming 116 worthy adversaries from 13 private schools.

Melville High head of maths Lauren Rabie said it was an outstanding performance by her charges who showed great focus and teamwork.

"I am amazed," she said.

"We hadn't experienced this before, this is our first year in the competition and we came away with a win.

"We're very proud."

Team member Ronin Field told the Argus the decathlon was both fun and challenging.

"The questions were harder than we expected but we still persevered and answered them to be best of our abilities," he said.

"It was fun going to another school with one hundred plus other kids - meeting new people and enjoying new experiences, as well as embracing that underlying competitive nature."

The academic decathletes will now get ready for the State titles to be held at Knox Grammar School in Sydney on May 22.

"It's very exciting," Ronin said.

"We'll definitely be doing more practise.

"We were a bit unprepared for regionals but we know what it's like now."

Mrs Rabie now has two weeks to organise and fund transport and accomodation.

But she is full of faith and hope, and is even looking forward to planning for Nationals if the intelligent eight are sucessful at States.

"They have high aspirations and we're happy to foster those.”