Congrats to Speech & Debate on a successful December!

Congrats to Speech & Debate on a successful December!

<p>The weekend before the holiday break, Stuyvesant had 80 participants in various speech &amp; debate tournaments1</p><p>Competing at three venues, two in person and one online, our Policy debaters, Lincoln Douglas, Parliamentary Debaters, Public Forum Debaters and Congressional Debaters had fun and achieved great success.</p><p>In Student Congress: We had 24 students at Regis HS, many of whom were novices. 8 of them were in the finals, and the top 6, four were from Stuy.</p><p>In PF we had teams competing at Stuy on Friday. 3 of them received State Qualifications.</p><p>And on Saturday at Regis,  5 of the 9 teams we sent had winning records.  </p><p>In LD the varsity members came to judge for our novices.  We had 9 teams compete and 6 of them had winning records, including  2nd and 4th place</p><p>Meanwhile at Dalton, 20 of our Parliamentary debaters attended the 2-day tournament.</p><p>We had 6 novice teams advance to eliminations and our Hybrid team in Varsity got to quarter finals.</p><p>Former Stuyvesant student (and Parliamentary debater) ran the tournament.  </p><p>And finally, our online policy teams placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd.</p><p>Our champions were also the 1st and 2nd speakers at the tournament. </p><p>The attached picture is our Congress team at Regis. Congrats to all the debaters and Coach, Julie Sheinman!</p>