Team dinner on Friday....

If you are planning on coming to the team dinner on Friday, could you please send me a text, email, or Facebook message to let me know. I need to know how much pizza to order.....so everyone is well fed.

Also, remember:

Freshmen and sophomores: Soda and paper goods

Juniors and seniors: Desserts and chips/pretzels!

First Meet of the Season: Fishers this Saturday!

Good morning all!

We are bringing a total of 26 entries (3 more than any tournament we registered for last year) and 6 judges (5 are parents and 1 is an IUPUC student). It is bound to be a great time! Here is some information and some reminders about our meet this weekend:

• Please be in the band parking lot at CEHS at 5:40am on Saturday. The bus will depart promptly at 5:45am and if you are not on the bus, you will have to find your own transportation to Fishers High School.
• If your parent(s) are judging this weekend, they are welcome to ride the bus with you or you are welcome to ride with them. If you ride with them, you need to be at Fishers High School no later than 7:30am. 
• This is going to be a very long day. There are 35 schools competing with somewhere in the neighborhood of 580 entries.....for those of you who competed last year, this is a Ben Davis size tournament and it is bigger than the state tournament.
• Matt and I would estimate we should be back to East by 6:30pm, but there are no guarantees. We will stay all the way through awards.
• If you have plans for the evening, you can have a parent pick you up at Fishers when you are done competing -- but you need to provide us with a note when you get on the bus in the morning.
• Things to bring to the speech meet:
• Professional attire to compete in (If you are concerned about your attire, please send Matt and I a picture before Friday evening)
• Comfy clothes to change into for the bus ride back to CEHS
• A blanket and pillow for the bus
• Your speech binder if you are competing in an interp event
• Your electronic device if you are competing in extemp
• Any research you might have on hand if you are competing in discussion
• Some snacks to get you through the day and maybe some to share with your teammates
• Some cash to buy lunch from the concession stand (Remember if we want people to buy from the concession stand at our meet, we need to buy from theirs)
• Bottled water
• Any games or decks of cards to play during down time (and there may be a lot)
• An open mind and a will to do well
• This is the first meet of the year and it is going to be a blast, even if it is a really long day!

As always if you have any questions, please contact me (860.836.0081) or Matt (812.343.7533). We are really excited (and a little nervous) to get this season kicked off and to send time with you competing!

Reminder for Tuesday morning!

Hello all!

Just a reminder that there is a mandatory meeting tomorrow morning at 7:20 in C104....We are going to be talking about important things, such as:

• departure time and protocols for the Fishers meet this weekend
• getting the registration turned for the Noblesville meet on 11/9 (a week from Saturday)
• ordering CEHS Speech Team tshirts (just need the size and number of shirts you want - they will be $10 a piece when they come in)
• our first monthly team dinner this Friday
• Calendar changes for December and February

So make sure you come to the meeting to get all of this important information! See you in the morning!

First Speech Team Dinner

Based on the surveys and discussions we have had with you this week, it is very apparently you would like more team building activities outside of early morning meetings, practices, and weekend meets. So we are going to have monthly team dinners, these dinners will be hosted at a variety of different locations on a Friday evening before a meet.

The first team dinner will be this coming Friday, November 1st. It will be hosted at Anna's house (6055 Conestoga Trail in Columbus). You should plan to arrive by 6pm and be picked up no later than 8:30pm (so you can get a good night's sleep before our first meet).

What is needed from you for this dinner?

• Please bring $3 to put towards the cost of pizza.
• If you are a freshman or a sophomore, you should plan to bring paper goods and/or liters of soda.
• If you are a junior or a senior, you should plan to bring chips/pretzels and/or dessert.
• Please let Anna know by Wednesday at 5pm - so she knows how much pizza to order.

This will be an informal way for the team to get together to psych ourselves up for our first meet! Even if you are not competing on Saturday, but are free on Friday evening, we would love to have you.

If you are interested in hosting a team dinner before Thanksgiving, please let Anna or Matt know and they will help you with the planning!

Looking forward to another fun week of speech preparation!

Judges Training TONIGHT

The judges training for tonight has been moved from East's cafeteria to IUPUC. You and your judges should meet outside Anna's office (CC 151) at 7:15pm this evening. We will then move to a classroom.

Please share this information with everyone on the team!

Reminder for tomorrow's meeting

Just a reminder that there is a meeting tomorrow (Tuesday) morning in C104 at 7:15am. It is really important that everyone be there because we will be getting the registration for our first meet at Fishers. We are also looking for student volunteers to help with judges' training on Thursday evening.

Finally, congratulations again to our female athletes - Way to go, Molly! Good luck to women's soccer at semi-state! Way to go to Kira ranked 23rd in the regional and Megan ranked 42nd in the regional! Good luck at semi-state!

Congratulations to CEHS Speech Team Athletes!

Our speech team continues to make us proud on many fronts. Many of you are involved in LOTS of things besides speech.

Matt and I would like to congratulate Molly Connor and the women's soccer team on their Regional soccer win tonight! Good luck at semi-state!

We would also like to wish Kira Singer and Megan Miller good luck at Cross Country Regionals this Saturday!

Keep us posted of all your fantastic accomplishments!

Update for the week of October 15, 2013

Hello all!

Hope you are enjoying your fall break and taking the time to work on your pieces/speeches.....we are three weeks away from our first meet in Fishers!

This week will be holding one practice on Wednesday, October 16th from 3:15-5pm in CC 245 at IUPUC. This is the same room we were in last week.We will work on both Interp and PA events at this practice. Remember, we will also be running a practice discussion round for the discussers, focused on the topic of GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.

Remember tomorrow (10/16) is the deadline for piece selection -- meaning you need to have your pieces selected and rough cut, so both Matt and I can review them before you have to memorize them or start practicing their delivery. Before we got to our first meet, we will need electronic copies of each of your pieces, so that we will have them available on the off chance (which is super rare) that they are ever challenged at a meet.

Our judges training has been rescheduled for Thursday, October 24th from 7-8:30pm in the CEHS cafeteria. Anyone you are planning on having judge this season should plan to attend this meeting. Remember to be a judge, you only need to be above of the age of 18, have a high school diploma, and be breathing!

We need to submit our registration for the Fishers Meet (11/2) the morning of Monday, October 28th -- therefore, Matt and I need to hear from those of you who are planning on competing and what events you are planning on competing in. If you are planning on competing in IMPROV DUO, you can triple at this meet. So those of you who are considering this temporary event are also welcome to compete in your two regular events if you would like -- but please let us know. We will need a final registration tally by Friday, October 25th at practice.

Lastly, we are in need of one more judge to join us for the meet at Noblesville High School on November 9th. If you know someone who would be able to help us, please let Anna as soon as possible.

See you tomorrow!

Update for the Week of 10/7

Hello all! Hope you are enjoying the first day of fall break, while Matt and I are toiling away at IUPUC.

I wanted to let you know that both practices over Fall Break on the Wednesdays will be inn CC245, which is on the second floor of the main IUPUC building. We will be meeting from 3-5pm on both Wednesdays.

Also of note, you  need to have your pieces selected and approved by the coaches no later than Wednesday, October 16th. We have completed all of our piece orders for the semester, so if you need a piece, you will need to check it out of a local library.

Thanks to some wonderful parents we are set with judges for the Fishers meet on November 2nd. We are in need of one more judge for the Noblesville meet on November 9th. Remember that you are required to supply two judges if you are single entered over the course of the season and you need to supply four judges if you are double entered over the course of the season. If you have any questions, please let Anna know as she is keeping the judges schedule.

See you all on Wednesday at IUPUC!

Update about Judges

Hello all,

Here is the link to the judge sign up sheet that I have compiled so far.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao0Lvl3jFe0QdE9EUXFTM0dBUGlXX3lyX1FKdmxjYnc&usp=sharing

You will notice that some meets have no judges and some meets have many judges. We need to take between 6 and 7 judges to every meet. We will need to bring somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-20 judges to Sectionals. Please try to get your judges to sign up as soon as possible, so that we can ensure that we can take the whole team to every meet on our schedule.

See all the interpers for practice tomorrow!

Even newer Judges Training

Ok, so there is a Parents Meeting sponsored by the Guidance office on the 22nd. So, the even newer judges' training will be on Thursday, October 24th at 7pm in the East Cafeteria. This is the Tuesday you return from Fall Break.

See you all at practice this week!

Judges Training for tonight CANCELLED!

Because we were not able to meet this morning to plan our judges' training, we are going to cancel it for tonight. The new judges' training will be on Tuesday, October 22nd at 7pm in the East Cafeteria. This is the Tuesday you return from Fall Break.

See you all at practice this week!

Two hour delay

Because of the two hour delay, we will not be having our morning meeting this morning. Please remind your judges/parents/support people that we will be having a judges' training session tonight from 7-8pm. We will meet in the East cafeteria.

We will have practice on Wednesday for the PA events (Discussion, DEC, OO, impromptu, radio, USX, and IX). All of the other events will practice on Friday this week. Please make sure this information is communicated to every member of our team.