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  Ashley Ulrich

The Speech and Debate Team participates in a minimum of eight forensics events: policy debate, Lincoln-Douglas debate, public forum debate, dramatic interpretation, humorous interpretation, duo interpretation, extemporaneous speaking, impromptu speaking, and original oratory. Policy debate is divided into novice, JV, and varsity teams, while the other events are all-inclusive. The team competes in and around Atlanta as well as throughout the state, with a few opportunities to travel nationally for advanced student competitors. Due to overwhelming interest in participation, attendance at competitions is first come, first serve, and for the 2008-2009 school year, the team is currently at capacity for membership.

Requirements for membership: serious, year-long time commitment, participation in tournaments and fundraisers  
Dues: fees per tournament will vary from $20- 60, with extra required for overnight or extended trips

MEETINGS:   Tuesdays and Thursdays immediately after school in 839

2007-2008 in Review

The NHS Speech and Debate team exploded over the course of the year in terms of size and success.  With approximately 40 members by the end of the school year, we excelled in events around the state.  Some highlights include:

·             The novice policy team of John Fu and Nick Jeon were quarterfinalists at the Ohio Valley National Tournament in November 2007

·             We brought home several first-place trophies and co-champion titles for various divisions at tournaments

·             11 students travelled to Harvard University to compete at their national tournament in February 2008

·             Sophomore Francis Jin was awarded the top negative speaker at the Varsity Policy GHSA state tournament in February 2008.

·             At the GFCA state tournament, Druva Kota and Shuo Qian were finalists in Novice policy, and Shinjini Das won 1 st   in the state in Original Oratory

·             The varsity team of Francis Jin and Ryan Yan qualified to compete at the All-State tournament in April 2008

2004-2005 in Review

The team has steadily increased in both size and success since its inception at the beginning of the high school. Some major successes this year included:

The four-person team of Paurush Babbar, Stefan Jiang, David Zhou and Sanjay Challa finished 2nd in the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) public policy debate championship for the AAAA/AAAAA divisions.
The two-person team of Paurush Babbar and Stefan Jiang as well as the team of Sanjay Challa and David Zhou qualified for the All-State public policy debate championship (across all GHSA divisions).
Paurush Babbar and Stefan Jiang finished 2nd in the All-State public policy debate championship (across all GHSA divisions).
John An and Jonathan Yan finished 1st in the Georgia Forensic Coaches Association Novice and Junior Varsity public policy debate championship.

2003-2004 in Review
Northview Debate Team Scores 6 Trophies At Tournament

The Northview High School Novice, Junior Varsity and Varsity Debate teams combined their efforts at the recent “Brookwood High School Maroon & Gold Classic Forensics Tournament”in Snellville to bring home six trophies and 3 plaques for their outstanding performances. Individual trophy recipients were varsity team members Nafees Syed for the Lincoln-Douglas competition and Jessica Falcone for the Extemporaneous Speaking competition. The Novice Policy Debate teams of Gene Kim/Ivana Mao and Harry Li/Karl Guo earned team trophies as did the Varsity Policy Debate teams of Seong An/David Zhou and Paurush Babbar/Stefan Jiang. Individual Speaker Award plaques were won by Harry Li and Ivana Mao in the Novice Division and by Stefan Jiang in the Varsity Division.
Faculty sponsor Jay Blanton says he was particularly proud of the performance of the Novice team of Vibin Kundukulam/Mimi Li who, due to restrictions on the number of teams that could be entered at each of the 3 levels (Varsity, JV and Novice), found themselves stepping up to compete in the JV category in their very first tournament ever, where they went 3-2 in the preliminary rounds.