Mira Loma Speech and Debate

HI EVERYBODY! On April 12, from 5:30-7:30 PM, we will be having a SHOWCASE AND BANQUET to celebrate the year's success. If you want to have a good time, watch great performances, and eat good food, please join us at the Mira Loma Blackbox Theatre! It is just $10 for all of this, and all money goes back into running the club! Let's celebrate the amazing year we had with food, fun, friends, and forensics :))))

hi everyone!! just some quick updates about MLSD !! we saw a lot of success in the last weekend at both the Cal invite and State Quals (speech). this weekend we have squals for debate !!! let's wish our matadors good luck !

here are the results:

berk:

POLICY:
Novice: Achyutha Kodavatikanti and Derek Yuan (Double-Octos)

PUBLIC FORUM:
Varsity: Praveen Gunendran and Neha Seshadri (Triple-Octos)

LINCOLN DOUGLAS:
Novice: Advait Thaploo (Double-Octos)
Dayita Biswas (Double-Octos)

EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING:
Praveen Gunendran (Quarter-Finals)
James Hu (Semi-Finals)

squals:
International Extemp
1st Place- Maria Richards *
2nd Place- James Hu *

National Extemp
4th place- Praveen Gunendran*
7th place- Neha Seshadri

Impromptu
6th place- Neha Seshadri

Oratorical Interp
1st place- Sarabesh Srikumar *
*= qualified to the state tournament!!!

hey MATS !! quick updates: anyone going to Stanford should be at the meeting tomorrow to get permission slips, prep w/ captains, and get last min info !! shout out to everyone competing this weekend !! MAKE US PROUD !!

Mira Loma Speech and Debate has been working with Cognitive Exchange for years! CE is a program created by late Mira Loma Alumni Satyaprit Das and is a fantastic organization that allows students in the US teach kids from all backgrounds in India speech and debate skills. It is a great way for us to take the knowledge we learn and teach it to others that are in need. CE has done a lot for the MLSD team, and we want to help the organization grow! CE is currently in between semesters, meaning now is the time to GET INVOLVED !! CE is a great way to give back to a greater community, and earns you community service hours. This is a wonderful program that we hope to help expand! If anyone is interested in joining or needs more detailed information about the program, please email [email protected]. We also want to shoutout current CE president Shreya Kowtha, and CE Chairman of the board Jyoti Das, for helping Mira Loma in many different ways over the years!

~Neha Seshadri (PR)

hey everyone pls check out our website miralomasd.weebly.com!! the schedule has been updated :))))

we have had a lot of success at our last few tournaments! check out our website miralomasd.weebly.com for all of the results!!!

yesterday was the first league tournament of the year, held at Nevada Union ! our team had a LOT of fun and took a lot of pictures :)))

Here are the results:

POLICY
novice: Achyutha Kodavatikanti and Derek Yuan (4-0)

PUBLIC FORUM
novice: Ramani Akkati and Nihal Mostofa (3-1)
varsity: Krivi Gupta and Sarabaesh Srikumar (3-1)
Praveen Gunendran and Neha Seshadri (4-0)

CONGRESS
supercongress: Utkarsh Jain

Hey Matadors! Tomorrow (9/8) is our INTRASCHOOL TOURNAMENT! We are still hoping to have more people sign up for this wonderful event. This will help both the students and their parents practice for whatever event they are interested in. Parents will be given the opportunity to shadow experienced judges. COME HEAR feedback from our set of AMAZING captains this year! To sign up, please visit miralomasd.weebly.com! Here is the schedule for tomorrow:

Schedule
8:00 Prep for judges
8:30 Arrive for competitors
9:00 Debate round 1
10:00 Speech round 1
11:00 Debate round 2
12:00 Debate round 3
1:30 End of event

P.S. this is our new logo! All credits for creation go to Sai Kambampati.

hi everybody! tomorrow (8/27) Mira Loma Speech and Debate is having its first meeting for NEW MEMBERS!! We invite anyone interested in participating in speech or debate to COME and hear about all of our wonderful events! it will be in F3 after school! Come meet our new officers and captains and hear how we are going to make this year our BEST ONE YET!!!

-Neha Seshadri (PR officer)

We just had our elections for the 2018-19 season! Here are your new officers and captains :)

OFFICERS:

President: Johnny Schimmelman
Vice President: Rhitishah Yuva Raju
Secretary: Achyutha Kodavatikanti
Treasurer: Justin Ro

This year, we created a new officer position! The new public relations officer is Neha Seshadri.

CAPTAINS:

Public Forum: Praveen Gunendran
Lincoln-Douglas: Maria Richards
Limited Prep: James Hu
Interp: Shreya Sridhar
Originals: Tanushree Jain

Mira Loma takes Debate Sweepstakes and the Leading Charter Award at the last tournament of the year, NSDA National Qualifiers!

Lincoln Douglas Debate:
3rd place- Vikram Vadarevu
4th place- Maria Richards

Public Forum Debate:
2nd place- Krivi Gupta and Sarabaesh Srikumar (Qualified to NATIONALS)
3rd place- Chirag Kawediya and Hemang Dhaulakhandi

Congress:
1st place- Ayyah Saleh (Qualified to NATIONALS)

International Extemp:
1st place- James Hu (Qualified to NATIONALS)
3rd place- Neha Seshadri
6th place- Praveen Gunendran

Original Oratory:
3rd place- Sarabaesh Srikumar
4th place- Tanushree Jain
6th place- James Hu

Check out our website to see results over the year & email [email protected] pictures from the season to put on our website!

HELLO EVERYBODY !! Tomorrow (4/9) is our annual MLSD banquet, from 5:30- 7:30. We are so excited for people to see our progress as a team, some great performances, and to eat chipotle. We will also be recognizing our teammates for their achievements this year. It's $7 at the Mira Loma cafeteria :)