By: Caitlyn Webster-Roberts and Tina Lou
On October 11th-12th, the Vestavia Speech and Debate team competed at the Big GUMP Classic at Montgomery Academy. We’re happy to announce Vestavia Speech and Debate is continuing its win streak.
The team competed in several speech and debate events:
Congress - Congressional Debate mocks the legislative process. Competitors take on the roles of representatives and senators to debate bills. The competitors deliver speeches either in favor or against a bill.
Debate
PF - Public Forum focuses on a topic or a resolution that teams of two have to pick to go pro or con. Here’s the topic for September and October: “The United States federal government should increase its investment in surveillance infrastructure along the southern border.”
BQ - Big Questions debate event that focuses on topics that relate to philosophy, ethics, and science. It makes competitors use critical thinking on both the pros and cons of topics. Here’s the topic for September and October: “Creativity is a more powerful force than intelligence.”
Speech
Oratories - Oratories are original speeches given by competitors. Some events under oratories, such as informative speaking (INF) and original oratory (OO), are 10-minute-long speeches aimed to either inform or persuade. Other events, such as impromptu speaking (IMP) and extemporaneous speaking (EXT), provide the competitors with a prompt with limited time to prepare.
Interpretations - Interp events use already published works, such as books, movies, poems, etc to create new interpretations in a speech format. These are also 10-minute-long speeches, so competitors must cut and reorganize the original work to create a new spin.
Vestavia Students Results:
Congress
1st - Greta Christiansen
3rd - Ellie Hoar
4th - Andy Sheng
Debate
NPF
Semis - Astha and Divya Ramani
2nd - Mason and Angelo
VPF
Quarters - Rohan Parekh and Timothy Li
WSD
2nd - Rett, Jake, and Andy
BQ
1st - Henry Jackson
3rd - Daniel
Speech
Interps
DI
4th - Ruogu
5th - Holland Abernathy
PRO
1st - Tina Lou
POI
2nd - Mariam
Oratories
EXT
1st - Zhuzhu Wang
6th - Mark Hanna
5th - Tina Gao
INF
3rd - Evelyn
4th - Tina Lou
IMP
1st - Zhuzhu Wang
2nd - Kaylee Zhou
Once again congratulations to all of these students for their stellar performances! Go Rebels!
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