NewsPre-K to 8Academics
Oratorical contest encourages change
Feb 27, 2002 8:00 AM
By Stefan Eady - Faculty
First place winners in the Breakfast Optimist Club Oratorical Competition, seventh-graders Anna Kruger and Michael Schecter, will be representing Darlington at the Zone Level competition in April. Zone Level winners could go on to compete at the district and possibly state levels, which awards $1,500 to the winner.
Students that placed in the competition were all seventh-graders and include first place winners Krueger and Schecter; first runners-up Michelle Marie Picon and Matthew Thomas; and second runners-up Alicia Wright and A.J. Evans. Others participants were eighth-graders Bennett Brock, Lauren Dean, Ashley Gaulin, and Lace Pollard; seventh-grader Hedy Stegner; and sixth-graders Natalie Brock and Christina Rutledge.
All Middle School students wrote a paper in English class on the speech topic "If I Could Change the World". From these classes, 13 students entered the Breakfast Optimist Club Oratorical Competition, held on Feb. 21 in the Faculty Lounge. In this competition, students presented their ideas from their papers in a four to five minute speech before a panel of judges. Students are judged based on poise, content, delivery and presentation, and overall effectiveness.
Students that placed in the competition were all seventh-graders and include first place winners Krueger and Schecter; first runners-up Michelle Marie Picon and Matthew Thomas; and second runners-up Alicia Wright and A.J. Evans. Others participants were eighth-graders Bennett Brock, Lauren Dean, Ashley Gaulin, and Lace Pollard; seventh-grader Hedy Stegner; and sixth-graders Natalie Brock and Christina Rutledge.
All Middle School students wrote a paper in English class on the speech topic "If I Could Change the World". From these classes, 13 students entered the Breakfast Optimist Club Oratorical Competition, held on Feb. 21 in the Faculty Lounge. In this competition, students presented their ideas from their papers in a four to five minute speech before a panel of judges. Students are judged based on poise, content, delivery and presentation, and overall effectiveness.
