Decatur High School (Washington)

Decatur High School is a high school (grades 9-12) located in the Federal Way School District, with an enrollment of about 1600 students. The school was built in 1976, and remodelled in 2002.

Mascot: Golden Gators

Colors: Navy Blue and Gold

Principal: Tom Leacy

Athletics:

Rival- Federal Way Eagles

League- SPSL North

District- West Central District

Peter Durand

In 1810, Peter Durand (also known as Pierre Durand) was granted a patent by King George III of England for his idea of preserving food in "vessels of glass, pottery, tin, or other metals or fit materials." Durand's patent was based on 15 years of experimentation by a Frenchman, Nicolas François Appert, who developed the idea of preserving food in bottles. Durand took Appert's idea one step further and replaced the breakable glass bottles with cylindrical tinplate canisters. Durand did not actually can foods himself but sold his patent to two other Englishmen, Bryan Donkin and John Hall, who set up a commercial canning factory and by 1813 were producing their first canned goods for the British army.

University of Texas

The University of Texas at Dallas, often called 'UT Dallas' or just UTD, is a university in the University of Texas System. Despite its name, the UTD main campus is located in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, Texas, just adjacent to the city of Dallas' northern limits, often called North Dallas and Far North Dallas. However, a satellite location (the Callier Center for Communication Disorders) of UT Dallas is located adjacent to the UT Southwestern campus, in central Dallas. Known for its computer science, engineering, management, and behavioral/brain sciences programs among others, the average SAT scores of the school sometimes exceed that of UT Austin, the flagship university in the system (the average SAT score of incoming UTD fall 2005 freshmen was 1240). UTD is regarded by many to be the third best Texas public institute after the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University at College Station^{[citation needed]}. It also ranks third among public universities in Texas in the percentage of National Merit Scholars in its freshman class.[1] UTD is located in the heart of Telecom Corridor, and has its roots in the development of the Metroplex's high tech industry.