sentences:  At the DCI World Championships in Indianapolis, The Academy placed 11th, becoming the first corps to make its Finals debut since the Seattle Cascades in 2002.The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps is sponsored by the Arizona Academy of the Performing Arts (AAPA), a 501 (c)(3) musical organization that has a Board of Directors, corps director, and staff assigned to carry out the organization's mission of, "...building great people through great performances.