Debate duo advances to competitive national tournaments March 24, 2024 — by Emma Fung and Anthony Luo As they walked out of Dwinelle Hall and into the sprawling campus of UC Berkeley, public forum partners Ashish Goswami and Leonardo Jia felt confident about their success in their third and final round of the day. After arguing for and against a ban on all single-use plastics throughout the weekend of Feb. 17-18, they […] read more » Science Bowl team places third at regionals, falling short of national tournament qualification March 3, 2024 — by Richard Fan and Alec Guan The Science Bowl team fell short of making the national tournament this year after placing third in the regional competition held Feb. 10 at the National Accelerator Laboratory in West Menlo Park. The team went 5-1 in the preliminary rounds. After losing to Palo Alto, the Falcons were placed into the second bracket going into […] read more » National tournament experience sets up speech competitors to reach new heights December 4, 2023 — by Andrew Lin Nearly 140,000 students across the country are National Speech & Debate Association (NSDA) members, but only 4% of them qualify for nationals, which were held in Phoenix, Arizona from June 11 to 16. To qualify, competitors must place in the top 3 spots in the yearly district tournament, which juniors Timothy Leung and Kinnera Potluri […] read more »
Science Bowl team places third at regionals, falling short of national tournament qualification March 3, 2024 — by Richard Fan and Alec Guan The Science Bowl team fell short of making the national tournament this year after placing third in the regional competition held Feb. 10 at the National Accelerator Laboratory in West Menlo Park. The team went 5-1 in the preliminary rounds. After losing to Palo Alto, the Falcons were placed into the second bracket going into […] read more » National tournament experience sets up speech competitors to reach new heights December 4, 2023 — by Andrew Lin Nearly 140,000 students across the country are National Speech & Debate Association (NSDA) members, but only 4% of them qualify for nationals, which were held in Phoenix, Arizona from June 11 to 16. To qualify, competitors must place in the top 3 spots in the yearly district tournament, which juniors Timothy Leung and Kinnera Potluri […] read more »
National tournament experience sets up speech competitors to reach new heights December 4, 2023 — by Andrew Lin Nearly 140,000 students across the country are National Speech & Debate Association (NSDA) members, but only 4% of them qualify for nationals, which were held in Phoenix, Arizona from June 11 to 16. To qualify, competitors must place in the top 3 spots in the yearly district tournament, which juniors Timothy Leung and Kinnera Potluri […] read more »