Debate 2013-2014

All students wishing to be in 7th or 8th grade debate for 2013-2014 need to answer these questions on a sheet of paper (typed or hand-written).

1. What have you learned/gained from debate this year?
2. What are your goals for next year?
3. What do you have to offer our team? (leadership, character qualities, talents, brag about yourself!)
4. Would you rather be in a debate class or interp. class?

UH-Spring reports

1st Place Sweepstakes

Extemp	Senior Prose	Religious Text
Olivia Cardenas - 1st	Maddie Muehlherr - 1st	Stephanie Oyolu - 3rd
Bowen Song - 2nd	Adele Lauzon - 5th
Lekha Sunder - 3rd	Maggie Hill - 6th
Larry Zhang - 4th
Alex Hoyal - 5th
Junior Prose	TV Commercial - English	TV Commercial Spanish
Maddie Fertak - 6th	Zibi Gugala - 1st	Mariel Alquisira-Morales - 2nd
	Athene DelVecchio - 4th	Miguel Covarrubias - 4th
	Nikki Goldin - 6th
Oratory	Duet Improv	Senior Impromptu Speaking
Lekha Sunder - 2nd	Tran & Hyun Han - 2nd	Sam Frank - 2nd
Rukmini Kalamangalam - 3rd	Lu & Oyolu - 3rd	Lekha Sunder - 4th
Abby Eastman - 5th	Tabibzadegan & Ho - 6th	Olivia Cardenas - 5th
Vega Shah - 6th		Robert Brown - 6th
Jeong Hyun Han - 7th
Junior Impromptu Speaking	Senior Poetry	Junior Poetry
Zuhayr Ali - 1st	Maddie Muehlherr - 1st	Sara Frank - 3rd
Georgy Thayill - 3rd
Joseph Dowdall - 4th
Joseph Donowho - 6th
Dramatic	Humorous	Declamation
Amy Yao - 3rd	Armon Tabibzadegan - 1st	Lekha Sunder - 2nd
Katherine Powers - 6th	Nikki Goldin - 2nd	Rukmini Kalamangalam - 3rd
	Larry Zhang - 5th	Abby Eastman - 4th
	Athene DelVecchio - 6th	Amy Yao - 6th
	Jeong Woo Han - 7th
Storytelling	Duet Acting	Congressional Debate
Alisa Lu - 1st	Nyquist & Sun - 1st	Olivia Cardenas - 1st
Stephanie Sonik - 3rd	Buks & Mattingly - 5th	Will Acheampong - 2nd
Athene DelVecchio - 5th		Miguel Covarrubias - 3rd
		Lekha Sunder - 4th
Group Improv		Curtis Yao - 5th
Nyquist, Sun & Goldin - 1st		Erin Sheena - 6th
Morris, Lauzon & Cardenas - 2nd		Marcos Coronado - Finalist
Shah, Oyolu, Lu, DelVecchio - 6th		Devon Watson - Finalist
Group Lip-Sync
Shah, Collymore, Dunn, Lu & Goldin - 6th
Lincoln-Douglas
Stephanie Oyolu - Quarterfinalist
Public Forum
Maddie Muehllher & Vishnu Narayana - Semifinalist Individual Sweepstakes Maddie Muehlherr - 3rd place

Oak Ridge report

Extemp	Declamation	Humorous
Lekha Sunder - 1st	Rukmini Kalamangalam - 1st	Max Nathan - 2nd
Will Acheampong - 2nd	Lekha Sunder - 2nd	Larry Zhang - 3rd
Martin Logan - 3rd	Will Acheampong - 3rd	Jordan Hinrichs - 6th
Maddie Spence - 4th	Abby Eastman - 4th	Gabby Keene - 8th
Abby Eastman - 5th	Nikki Goldin - 5th
Megan Dickson - 6th	Zibi Gugala - 6th
Poetry	Original Oratory	Prose
Kaitlyn Kelly - 1st	Abby Eastman - 1st	Maddie Muehlherr - 1st
Dikla Taylor - 3rd	Maddie Spence - 2nd	Natalie Festa - 6th
Maddie Muehlherr - 4th	Ali Potthast - 3rd	Adele Lauzon - 7th
Ally Sun - 5th	Martin Logan - 4th
	Noah Scantlebury - 8th
Duet Improvisation	Pantomime	Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Zibi Gugala & Everett Lowen-	Nathan Dunbar - 4th	Joseph Donowho - Octofinalist
stein - 4th	Larry Zhang - 7th
Storytelling	Solo Improv	Dramatic
Nikki Goldin - 2nd	Athene DelVecchio - 3rd	Amy Yao - 2nd
Athene DelVecchio - 3rd	Maddie Muehlherr - 4th	Ruth Ling - 3rd
Alisa Lu - 6th	Sara Tin-U - 6th	Nikki Goldin - 5th
Ally Sun - 7th
Alice Qui - 8th
Duet Acting		Public Forum Debate
Shelby Griffin & Maddie Muehlherr - 1st		Olivia Cardenas & Erin Sheena - 1st
Annika Bohmann & Kaylie O'Connell - 2nd		Jeong Woo Han & Bowen Song - 2nd
Ally Sun & Katherine Nyquist - 3rd		Joseph Dowdall & Sam Frank - Semifinalists
Sophie Cardenas & Adele Lauzon - 4th		Travis Craig & Lyle Derden - Semifinalists
Megan Dickson & Julia Dietrich - 5th
Congressional Debate	Extemp.	Poetry
Miguel Covarrubias - 1st	Erin Sheena - 1st	Rob Laucius - 1st
Andrew Hollenberg - 2nd	Olivia Cardenas - 2nd	Sam Liu - 4th
Curtis Yao - 3rd	Sam Frank - 4th
Marcos Coronado - 5th	Bowen Song - 5th	Prose
Vishnu Narayana - 6th	Evan Finley - 6th	Sam Liu - 3rd
Armon Tabibzadegan - 8th	Gan Liu - 8th
		Oratory
Public Forum Debate Top Speakers		Sam Frank - 2nd
Lyle Derden - 1st		Lyle Derden - 3rd
Bowen Song - 2nd

TFA State

You can also check see how some of our former debaters fared at the High School State tournament this past weekend.  These students sacrificed the first part of their spring break to compete in South Grand Prairie.  You can find Lanier alums at Lamar, Bellaire, Strake Jesuit, St.Thomas High School, Friendswood and Debakey.

If I've left any school out please let me know.

2013 State Results

Spring Break Reading

This month's print issue of National Geographic has two articles related to debate topics: Energy and drone use.  There are articles about fracking and the burgeoning drone industry.  These are two areas where science and technology bleed into debate, so if you need something to read I highly recommend checking these articles out.

(With homage to Levar Burton from Reading Rainbow) But don't take my word for it!

March PF - CON

Here's an article explaining how the health care mandate is:
1. Constitutional - The Supreme Court ruled that the penalty amounts to a tax and falls within the government's taxing powers.

2. Handles the "adverse selection process" - By requiring everyone to have health insurance it broadens the consumer base.

March PF Topic

Here's an article describing the penalties the government can level against individuals who don't have health insurance.

This piece is from the Cato Institute in 2007, but offers help for the PRO side.

These items showed up when I searched for "health care mandate."