Happy Thanksgiving!

Just a reminder that there are no meetings or practices this week, so that you can relax and spend time with your families over Thanksgiving break.

We will meet on Tuesday, December 3rd to get the registration for the IUPUC meet. You should also plan to bring your $10 for t-shirts if you ordered them. They are in and ready to be delivered.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families!

Results from the Greensburg Speech Tournament

Another fun and exciting Saturday in the life of CEHS Speech. The results from today's tournament at Greensburg are:

Declamation 3rd - Katie
Declamation 8th - Megan
Declamation 10th - Austin
Discussion 2nd - Whitney
OO 3rd - Chris
OO 5th - Emma
USX 9th - Arjun
Mem Duo 2nd - Tessa & Mariann
Mem Duo 8th - Ashleigh & Kaylee
Radio 8th - Braidon
HI Champion - Mariann
IX 3rd - Gracie
IX 5th - Naveen
Poetry 4th - Livi
OP 7th - Ashleigh
Scripted Duo 3rd - Emma & Katie
Impromptu 2nd - Gracie

This all combined for a 2nd place team finish (out of 25 teams)! We also broke 100 team sweepstakes points for the first time! Enjoy the week off for Thanksgiving and be ready to be gracious hosts at IUPUC on December 7th!

Radio requirements for Greensburg

Radio requirements at Greensburg this coming weekend:

Radio rounds are as follows: radio meeting for all contestants @ 8:15

    Round 1 - 2 minute news (provided by the student)

    Round 2 – 1 minute  contestant written commercial on a National Product

    Round 3 – 2 minute  contestant-written editorial

    Round 4-  On-the-spot

Results from Ball State's Red Carpet Affair

After all of the adventures surrounding last weekend, we were looking forward to a smooth journey to Muncie to compete at Ball State. We all showed up at CEHS bleary eyed and tired at 4:50am for our two hour ride north.....and boy, was it worth it! We took home 17 individual ribbons:

Cody - 7th novice prose
Whitney - 3rd radio
Braidon - 7th radio
Molly - 7th discussion
Whitney - 6th discussion
Mariann & Tessa - 2nd memorized duo
Ashleigh & Kaylee - 5th memorized duo
Kira - 6th HI
Mariann - 3rd HI
Kira & Megan - 5th scripted duo
Gracie - 6th impromptu
Gracie - 2nd IX
Katie - 4th declamation
Megan - 6th declamation
Austin - 3rd declamation
Chris - 7th OO
Ashleigh - 3rd OP

All of that added up to a 2nd place team finish - 2nd place out of 19 teams! And for the first time this season AHEAD of Cathedral! Keep up the good work and success as we move one to Greensburg next weekend!

Requirements for Radio at Ball State

Ball State Speech Meet Radio:

Round I – BREAKING NEWS BULLETIN - (given bulletin, 1 minute spot including open and close is presented);

Round II - ORIGINAL COMMERCIAL (bring in a self-written commercial advertising a national product; 1 minute max.);

Round III – ORIGINAL EDITORIAL (bring in a self-written editorial on professional sports; 2 minute max.);

Round IV - ON-THE-SPOT (2 minute preparation; 2 minute presentation max.; based on an event in previous 10 days and represented in USA Today)

Results from Noblesville High School Speech Meet

Columbus East Speech displayed an incredible amount of heart and resiliency at yesterday's speech tournament....we started our morning facing several challenges. "I won't be on the bus.....I just wrapped my car around a telephone pole" are no words a speech coach or anyone wants to hear -- but fortunately, everyone was safe and made it to the meet to compete.

We had an incredible showing with the following results:
1st Memorized Duo - Mariann and Tessa
1st Discussion - Whitney
2nd Discussion - Molly
8th Discussion - Alex
5th Impromptu - Chris
8th Impromptu - Patrick
7th Declamation - Katie
6th OO - Chris
9th OP - Ashleigh
9th Radio - Molly
6th IX - Gracie
7th IX - Naveen
6th HI - Mariann

The team was 3rd overall out of 20 some-odd teams at the tournament -- finishing one point lowering than the second place team, Cathedral! If this is what happens on a high stress day, we cannot wait to see what happens when things go smoothly from start to finish. Pictures to follow soon!

On to the Ball State Red Carpet Affair this weekend!

Results from the Fishers High School Speech Meet

Columbus East brought 23 entries to Fishers High School today.....to a huge tournament of 35 schools and over 500 entries. We could not be happier with their performance......several firsts happened today, several goals were accomplished!

Today's ribboners include:

Whitney Michael - 8th in discussion
Neeraj Pandita - 13th in discussion
Alex Hahn - 12th in discussion
Gracie Webb - 11th in impromptu
Emma Alexander - 4th in original oratory
Chris Hahn - 12th in original oratory
Austin Lewis - 14th in declamation
Gracie Webb - 7th in international extemp
Naveen Menon - 12th in international extemp

Congratulations to all of our ribboners and our participants today! Off to Noblesville next weekend -- we are bringing 37 entries and are hoping to bring home some more ribbons!

Pictures of fun from the Fishers High School Speech Meet

 Seniors Emma Alexander and Katie Miller start their speech year

 Seniors Braidon Martoccia and Naveen Menon enjoy some downtime between rounds

 So grateful for parental support -- thanks so much for your help today John and Aimee!

 Livi made it through her first speech meet ALIVE and BREATHING -- but fell asleep at our table waiting for awards

 Austin loved his waffle cone -- they were the hit of the day!

  The dynamic duo of Ashleigh and Kaylee!

 Everyone talking about the final rounds they watched......while Matt crushes the candy that won't crush itself!

  The CEHS Speech Team waiting for awards to start!

Team picture number one for the year -- 9 ribbons out of 23 entries at the first meet of the year! Could not be more proud of this group of high schoolers!