Kentucky’s Premiere Academic Competition
Governor's Cup encourages depth and breadth of academic knowledge, cultural literacy, teamwork, leadership, creativity, risk assessment, and critical thinking, and provides the fun that comes with being part of a team. Established in 1985, KAAC now serves over 18,000 students and nearly 1200 schools at over 400 competitions each year.
Opportunities to Excel in Every Grade - In the Elementary Division (grades 5 and below), students take part in District and Regional competitions. The Middle Grades Division (grades 6-8) and High School Division (grades 9-12) may participate in District, Regional and State competitions. Students advance from one competition to the next based on their performance in the prior competition.
Becoming a member of KAAC provides entry for Governor's Cup. If your school took part in Governor's Cup last year, invoices for 2024-25 have been sent to either your school or Board, depending on who traditionally pays. Membership fees are $280 in the Elementary division, and $375 in the Middle Grades and High School divisions.
All Kentucky public, private, and home schools are welcome to join! If you have questions about becoming a member school contact Brad Persinger at [email protected].
To register a new school please fill out the form below. If your school is already a member you can confirm your contact information at this link: Confirm Contact Info.
2024-25 Key Dates
School Registration Deadline: Friday, November 1, 2024
Student Entry period will open December 12 for all divisions. Students must be entered by the morning of the District Planning Meeting.
Elementary
Thursday, January 23
District–Coaches’ Planning Meeting
Tuesday, January 28
District–Future Problem Solving & Composition
Saturday, February 1
District–Written Assessment, Quick Recall
Thursday, February 20
Regional–Coaches’ Planning Meeting
Monday, February 24
Regional–Future Problem Solving & Composition
Saturday, March 1
Regional–Written Assessment, Quick Recall
Middle Grades
Thursday, January 9
District–Coaches’ Planning Meeting:
Tuesday, January 14
District–Future Problem Solving and Composition
Saturday, January 18
District–Assessment, Quick Recall
Thursday, February 6
Regional–Coaches’ Planning Meeting
Monday, February 10
Regional–Future Problem Solving & Composition
Saturday, February 15
Regional–Assessment, Quick Recall
March 14-17
State Finals – Galt House, Louisville
High School
Thursday, January 16
District–Coaches’ Planning Meeting:
Tuesday, January 21
District–Future Problem Solving and Composition
Saturday, January 25
District–Assessment, Quick Recall
Thursday, February 13
Regional–Coaches’ Planning Meeting
Monday, February 17
Regional–Future Problem Solving & Composition
Saturday, February 22
Regional–Assessment, Quick Recall
March 14-17
State Finals – Galt House, Louisville
Competitions Information
- Quick Recall
- Future Problem Solving
- Mathematics Content Assessment
- Science Content Assessment
- Social Studies Content Assessment
- Language Arts Content Assessment
- Arts & Humanities Content Assessment
- Written Composition
- Each student can participate in up to 3 of the 8 events. A quick recall team needs at least 4 students, you can enter up to 3 students in each of the other events.
- You do not have to fill all the slots to enter the competition, you can enter students in only quick recall, content assessments, composition, or any combination you choose.
- All events must take place at the host site.
- Students must bring a charged, functional device for Content Assessment. It is not the responsibility of the host school to provide devices to other schools. If students arrive to competition without a working device they may not get to participate.
Required Officials
- All Quick Recall and FPS coaches must be certified!
- If you enter a Quick Recall team you are required to provide certified official(s) - not the coach.
- If you enter students in FPS you are required to provide a certified evaluator - not the coach.
- If you enter students in Written Composition you must provide a composition reader.
- If you enter students in any of the Content Assessments you must provide an assessment proctor.
More information can be found in the Coach Manual and Coach Checklist.
Other Officials
The host site is not required to provide all of the "Key Officials," if you have someone who can serve as the Chief Official, Head Scorer, or Composition Coordinator please discuss at the planning meeting.
Certification
Certification information can be found here: CERTIFICATION.
Links
Coach Manual
Coach Checklist
Quick Recall Manual
FPS Manual
Hosting Guide
QR Scoresheet
QR Inquiry Form
CA Inquiry Form
Student Certificate - District
Student Certificate - Region
Student Certificate - State
Composition Topic
The composition topics can be seen on this page: COMPOSITION.
FPS Topic
The FPS topics can be seen on this page: FPS.
Questions?
Don’t let your questions go unanswered! Give us a call at (502) 223-0088 or email us at [email protected].