Six Qualify for National Speech/Debate Contest

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March 7, 2016
Victor Fu, Alex Mutammara, Nishant Aranke, Ani Thkur, Drew Kaul, and Joshua Misrack have all qualified to compete at the National Speech and Debate Association National Tournament June 12-17 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The following list are the results for the latest contest.
Team Awards (of 23 participating schools—including Dulles)
Overall Sweepstakes
Debate Sweepstakes
Public Forum Debate (team)
Victor Fu and Alex Mutammara 1st
Nishant Aranke and Ani Thakur 3rd
Gaurav Gomber and Vivek Sinha 6th
Lincoln-Douglas Debate (one-on-one)
Drew Kaul 3rd
Grant Lu 4th
Nikhil Kolluri 6th
Congressional Debate
Joshua Misrack 1st
Jason Ancheta 4th
John Lin 6th
Arundhati Krishna finalist
Haya Panjwani finalist
United States Extemporaneous Speaking
Joshua Misrack 3rd
Victor Fu 5th
Felix Tan 10th
International Extemporaneous Speaking
Jefferson Ren 7th
Vivek Sinha 8th
Eric Chen 9th
Original Oratory
Samantha Anwarsemi-finalist
*Worlds Debate (group)
Rangers 3rd
(Rahim Malik, Nandan Marwaha, Jefferson Ren, Samyukta Singh, and Rena Yan)
Stars 3rd
(Alex Chaumette, Joshua Jacob, Varsha Varghese, Lucia Zhang, and Emily Zhuang)
*Only 1st place qualifies for national tournament. The top 3 qualify in all other events.
Commendable Participation
Shayan Ali and Melinda Ding (PF Debate)
Snehal Bhamare (Original Oratory)
Eric Chen (LD Debate)